A security guard yesterday testified that he suffered drug-included hallucinations before fatally attacking his girlfriend with an electric drill.
Safdar Husnain, 28, is on trial for murdering Andrea Bayr, 25, at a Tuen Mun construction site where he worked in March 2016.
Taking the stand in his own defense yesterday, Husnain said he was a longtime abuser of methamphetamine — also known as ice — and described descending into a drug-fuelled frenzy on the day of the killing, The Standard reported.
Husnain — who was with Bayr and a friend at the construction site — said he heard a voice and saw the moon appear with an open-mouthed snake.
The voice, he said, told him he would be killed by someone he loved.
His girlfriend, he said, said he was “mad” when he asked whether she could hear it too, the newspaper wrote.
Husnain said Bayr’s face then appeared to him as distorted — growing longer with her eyes and teeth “popping out” — making her look like a “witch”.
He said the “witch” got closer and closer. He threw a hammer at her and missed, then hit her with an electric drill.
He said he thought the “witch” wanted to strangle him, so he had to kill her.
A court hearing earlier this week heard that Bayr was found to have a hole in the right side of her face, among other injuries, with part of a drill bit sticking out.
After they arrived at the scene, police found Husnain and Bayr sitting together on the ground.
As they approached, the defendant began hitting the victim with the drill. He kept saying he was “sorry” as officers restrained him. Husnain has pleaded not guilty to one count of murder.
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