Man guilty of murdering girlfriend Maryam Hamka before burying body in remote Victorian bushland

Jury finds Toby Loughnane murdered 36-year-old after a trial heard of months of violent assaults

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A drug user who buried his dead girlfriend’s body in remote Victorian bushland has been found guilty of her murder.

After a trial in the state’s supreme court, a jury found Toby Loughnane, 44, murdered Maryam Hamka at his Brighton home in Melbourne’s south-east.

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