THE father of the murdered Singh siblings had a "horrible dream" on the night they were allegedly killed, a court heard today.
Vijay Singh was in Fiji on April 20, 2003, when he had a dream which resulted in both he and his wife Shirley waking up screaming in the middle of the night .
The Supreme Court in Brisbane has heard that police believed the Singh siblings were killed late on April 20 or early on April 21, 2003.
During cross examination, Vijay Singh told defence barrister Sam Di Carlo that the nightmare had not been about his slain children.
He agreed it had been about a woman in black but he and Shirley had comforted each other after he woke up screaming.
Vijay Singh told police about the dream in his statement.
Max Sica, 41, had pleaded not guilty to murdering Neelma Singh, 24, Kunal Singh, 18, and Sidhi Singh, 12, at Bridgeman Downs, in Brisbane's north, on April 21, 2003.
The court had heard Vijay Singh and Shirley Singh were on business in Fiji from April 13, 2003.
Mr Di Carlo, for Sica, asked Vijay Singh at length about calls made from Fiji to the Bridgeman Downs house from mid-April while they were on business.
"On Easter Sunday (April 20) or Easter Monday (April 21) according to records there were no calls from you (Vijay) or Shirley in Fiji to the Bridgeman Downs house or from the house to Fiji.
"Why would you go two days without calling the children at all?" Mr Di Carlo asked.
Vijay Singh said on the Monday he sent money via Western Union and tried to send a fax with details to the house but it had not gone through.
He said he had no recollection of trying to make a call on those days but he could not answer for his wife.
VIjay Singh told the court when he returned from Fiji after the killings he had been taken to a police station but he could not recall if he spoke to them about Sica.
He could not recall police telling him Sica was the prime suspect.
Earlier, Vijay Singh agreed with Mr Di Carlo that with the passage of time he could become confused about some issues.
Vijay Singh had apologised to the court about giving evidence on an incident on Mothers Day when he believed Sica arrived when he was making breakfast.
But Vijay said on reflection he had his Mothers Days confused and he had not been in the country on that day. Shirley had told him of the incident.
"You were honestly mistaken, you had convinced yourself it was true and you weren't trying to be dishonest. With a passage of time you got confused?" Mr Di Carlo asked.
Vijay Singh agreed that he could have been confused about other some things but not everything.
The start of the trial, before Justice John Byrne, was delayed about 30 minutes today when a juror was caught in Brisbane's traffic chaos.
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Mr Singh says he had a horrible nightmare and woke up screaming on Easter Sunday 2003, he said it was not directly related to his slain children but that he saw a woman in black..... he says he and his wife comforted each other etc....in other words it was like a bad omen of some sort. Mr Singh did not ring his children or hear from them at all on that Easter Sunday. He says that on the Easter Monday he tried to fax a code at the house in Australia to Neelma so she could go get the money he sent. He says he tried to ring Neelma but got no reply. He had this horrible nightmare, a bad omen, if it was me i would want to speak with my children, not because he had special powers and knew his children were in mortal danger, but because in my opinion, being Easter day and all, i would want to wish them a Happy Easter and see if all was ok. Of course this is in MY OPINION. Everyone is different and chooses to act the way they wish.
Mr Singh was 100% sure about the Mothers day incident he had stated in court the other day, he said it and repeated it. When defence lawyer S Di Carlo told him that he would have been out of the country according to his own passport details, he was still going on about how sure he was and said that passport documentation etc is only a bunch of paperwork etc etc..... i see today he has acknowledged that he was wrong about the incident.
Mr Singh states that he can not recall speaking to police about Max Sica when he arrived in Australia and was taken to a police station.... believe me, thats all that Mr Singh did do. He started doing it even before he left the country in March when he took his daughter Neelma along with him to the Stafford Police Station to make a complaint against Max...He was so worried, he was so concerned, he thought Max was such a psycho that he left the country with his wife shortly after and left the children on their own.
Mr Singh recieved threatening calls to his home from Fiji not long before the deaths of his children. At first he says that he did not really find them that threatening, he thought it was someone in Fiji made to make these calls on behalf of his wife or mistress etc.... The call found on his answering machine was truly threatening and vile and vicious in nature. words to the effect of...you fucked with our family, now we are gonna fuck with yours. Rape your wife and daughters, we know where you live, we now have your phone number. Then in their native language they say die and kill. Mr Singh had made a note of this call on a diary page. He says the call was made on Oct 30th 2002 at 946pm, another call was made about ten minutes later where he says he actually had a conversation with these people but the tape got erased when his business case was broken into. Phone records do not show he had recieved these two calls on that particular day and at those particular times from overseas numbers. I guess he must have confused the date and times for those calls as well. He did say he had asked his wife when she came back from Fiji with Neelma if she had done this and that she had said no.
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Mrs Singh took the stand on Tuesday afternoon, providing details about how her family met the Sica family after they first moved to Brisbane in 1993.
She became teary when speaking about her children, and said she had eventually become concerned about Neelma becoming too friendly with Sica.
‘‘She said: ‘No, we’re just friends mum. He’s just trying to help us out’,’’ she said.
However, Mrs Singh said Neelma quit her job in Dubai in 2002 and returned to Brisbane without telling her family so that she could secretly live with Sica.
However, she said her daughter soon told her she had changed her mind because she thought Sica was ‘‘possessive’’.
‘‘She said she was glad she lived in Bribie Island with him because she actually got to know what sort of person he was,’’ Mrs Singh said.
‘‘She said she doesn’t want to have anything to do with him any more.
‘‘She said she doesn’t like Max any more at all.’’
Mrs Singh said she told Sica not to visit their home any more.
The trial continues.
Mrs Singh is now being questioned by prosecution.
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