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Electric drill killer gets life in Hong Kong jail as victim’s mother says she will not forgive him

Mother claims she never got an apology over the loss of her daughter two years ago

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The case was heard at the High Court in Admiralty. Photo: Sam Tsang

The mother of a young woman bashed to death with an electric drill in Hong Kong nearly two years ago said she would not forgive her daughter’s murderer, who was jailed for life on Wednesday in a case the judge described as a tragic horror story.

“I hope my daughter is happy now for her justice,” Wilma Bayr told the Post after watching Safdar Husnain being sent away for life imprisonment over the murder of her daughter, Andrea. “I’m going to sue him, I hope somebody will help me financially.”

The High Court heard Andrea, 25, died on March 29, 2016, in a brutal and horrific killing during which she was struck, strangled and stabbed in the face with a 15.5-centimetre drill despite her attempts to fight for her life. Husnain was convicted of murder on Tuesday.

The Austrian-Filipino victim is survived by her widowed mother, a twin brother and four children – three of whom were now being cared for by the city’s social services.

Andrea Bayr is survived by her mother, a brother and four children. Photo: Facebook
Andrea Bayr is survived by her mother, a brother and four children. Photo: Facebook

Her then boyfriend, Husnain, a 28-year-old Pakistani security guard, blamed the drugs they took that night for giving him hallucinations and convincing him she was a witch who would kill him if he did not act first.

But the jury in its verdict rejected his account, after a psychiatric expert for the prosecution testified that Husnain willingly took the drugs and may not have experienced the psychotic symptoms if he had not done so.

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