Sydney honour killing victim 'bashed like meat'

A Sydney student has been found guilty of murdering his mother's lover in what's been described as an 'honour' killing in which the victim was bashed "like a piece of meat".

Andrew Iskandar, 21, denied murdering Mohd Shah Saemin, 43, outside his Leichhardt flat in February 2010.

He told the NSW Supreme Court jury he used a hammer in self-defence after Saemin attacked him and his father. He denied planning the killing or knowing beforehand about his mother's affair with Saemin, who worked with her at the Malaysian consulate. "If my mother had one or 10 affairs it doesn't bother me ... not in the slightest," Iskandar told the jury.

After a week of deliberations, the jurors delivered their guilty verdict yesterday.

Nita Iskandar, 47, has pleaded not guilty to being an accessory after the fact by helping her son to leave the country following Saemin's death.

Nada Bayley testified that she saw Saemin's attackers "bash his brains in" and she tried to shield him. But they kicked her into the gutter before resuming their attack on him, "bashing him like a piece of meat".

Iskandar said he told a friend, "If someone was messing with your mum would you take him out?"

Sentencing submissions will be on February 2.

- AAP