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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fox C2" data-source="post: 15052557" data-attributes="member: 370633"><a href="http://l.yimg.com/ea/img/-/130529/270513gensilva1_18qbbjc-18qbbji.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/ea/img/-/130529/270513gensilva1_18qbbjc-18qbbji.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>Sampathawaduge Eustace Sudath Silva, wife Kurukulasuriya and daughters Amali and Pavithra. Picture: Supplied                                                                                   Footage of a Perth man buying the murder weapon he used hours  later to kill his wife has been released by the Supreme Court along  with a recording of his call to emergency services after the incident.Self-confessed  murderer Sampathawaduge Eustace Sudath Silva has pleaded guilty to  murder and agreed he had been upset by his wife’s denial when he came  home during a lunch break on February 23 last year to accuse her of  alleged infidelity.But he claims he only bludgeoned his wife of  more than twenty years with a newly bought hammer after she threatened  to kill their two daughters during the disagreement.This week,  Silva’s defence lawyer and a prosecutor argued over whether he had  premeditated the killing when he bought a hammer from a Bunnings store  on his way to work as a maritime lecturer that morning about 8.40am.Today,  the Supreme Court released CCTV footage that had been submitted as part  of the case in which Silva is seen buying the hammer from the hardware  store.The State claims Silva had already hatched a plan to kill  his wife when he went into the store and purchased the club hammer, and  took it home with him during his lunchbreak to carry out the crime.But  Silva claims he had bought the hammer to build a pot plant stand the  coming weekend. He did not have the other materials but expected them to  be delivered in the coming days, and did not believe a claw hammer  already at his home would have been suited to the task, he said.Today, the court also released a recording of a phone call made by Silva in the moments after his wife’s death.The  court heard this week that he had told police his wife was dead and  that he had killed her about five minutes earlier with a hammer.Lawyers  have argued about whether a blood trail leading into the garage was  evidence of Silva trying to move his fatally injured wife to a car to  dispose of her body and conceal his crime, or whether he had been trying  to take her to a hospital as he claims.In the call to police, an  operator asks about whether his wife has a pulse several times. The  operator also asks whether he would like an ambulance.Silva  admitted under questioning from the prosecution this week that he had  not checked her pulse before calling police or while speaking with them.He  claims that he specifically called a police phone line and not the  triple-0 emergency line because his experiences with ambulances in his  native Sri Lanka meant he did not expect one to arrive in time even if  he requested it.Silva is due for sentence on June 4. Excerpts of the Silva police call as understood by The WestOperator: "Police assistance centre - how may I help? Hello, police... can I help."Silva: "Yeah, my wife got killed."Operator: "What's happening?"Silva: "She got killed."Operator: "What happened Sir.. just take a deep breath, there's no drama, just take a deep breath... do you feel safe?"Silva: "Yeah I am safe."Operator: "You're safe?"Silva: "Yeah."Operator: "Are you home?"Silva: "Yeah I am home."........Operator: "What's happening there?"Silva: "She is dead now."Operator: "Who is dead?"Silva: "My wife."Operator: "Ok. Is she home with you?"Silva: "Yeah, her body is here."Operator: "Her body. Ok. Is there... have you got family coming?"Silva: "My daughters (indistinct) come in the evening."Operator: "Your daughter's coming?"Silva: "Yeah they may come in the evening... I don't know what time... the afternoon sometime."Operator: "Now, has your wife been under a doctor?"Silva: "No"Operator: "No? Ok. Did you know if she was ill or what's happened to her?"Silva: "We had an argument and she got killed by me."..............Operator: "Just stay calm. We will come and get some help. Where is she now.. where's she lying?"Silva: "On the floor"Operator: "Ok. And you can't feel any pulse at all?"Silva: "No."Operator: "No, ok. Ok. I might just send St John's Ambulance just to be sure is that ok if we do that.. ok Mr Silva"?Silva: "I don't think so."Operator: "No? Ok. What did you kill her with. Was it a knife or did you just push her over or...?"Silva: "A hammer."Operator: "A hammer. Ok. Ok. I am just going to get the job on now so we can come and help you. Can you hold for one second?"watch video:<a href="http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/17378177/killer-caught-on-camera-buying-murder-weapon/" target="_blank">http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/17378177/killer-caught-on-camera-buying-murder-weapon/</a></blockquote>

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