Desperation over money and the claimed theft of $1000 led to the brutal murder of Hasan Dastan in 1995, a Sydney jury has been told.
Dastan, of Fairfield Heights, was found dead in a pool of blood at his Esy Auto Dismantlers business in Blacktown on Monday December 11, 1995, after being bludgeoned with a heavy object.
The body of 52-year-old Hasan Dastan was found inside a workshop at his car wrecker business.
“The deceased was located in his workshop where he had been subjected to a severe attack to his head, face and body,” Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield said on Monday.
A metal pipe was found in Dastan’s mouth, a sledgehammer lay nearby and a bloodstained note with a partial footprint lay close to the body, the NSW Supreme Court jury heard.
Dastan’s employee Kubilay Kilincer was a suspect in the initial police murder investigation in 1995 but was not charged until 2020 after detectives took over the unsolved homicide case two years earlier.
Kilincer was accused of murdering his employer but has pleaded not guilty.
On Monday, Hatfield said Kilincer frequently asked to borrow money from members of the Turkish community in Sydney.
“The deceased was aware of this and often would complain about it and tell people not to loan the accused money,” the prosecutor said.
These financial requests allegedly included $500 that was desperately and urgently needed for a friend and $1200 required to secure a housing commission home.