Zoran Pandilovski’s surprising acts after killing his ex-wife at their Mill Park, Melbourne, residence

The estranged husband of a younger mum took ghoulish pictures of her crumpled, useless physique after strangling her within the household residence, a court docket has heard. 

Zoran Pandilovski, 47, throttled his childhood sweetheart Elaine Pandilovski, 44, in July 2020 in a match of jealous rage.

On Friday, the cowardly brute confronted the Supreme Courtroom of Victoria for a pre-sentence plea listening to the place the devastated family members of his sufferer lastly had their probability to entrance him. 

Ms Pandilovski’s physique was found beneath her Mill Park residence, on the northern outskirts of Melbourne, after Pandilovski was concerned in a severe automobile crash. 

Elaine Pandilovski was a doting mum and cared for teenagers with particular wants. Her physique was discovered underneath the house she shared together with her younger son 

Zoran Pandilovski (left), their son (centre), and Elaine Pandilovski

Zoran Pandilovski has been charged with the homicide of his estranged spouse. Pictured: Elaine and Zoran Pandilovski

The court docket heard Pandilovski had gone to his estranged spouse’s residence underneath the guise of accumulating their son’s iPad. 

The couple had been separated for 20 months after earlier allegations of home violence. 

Crown prosecutor Neill Hutton stated police ascertained Pandilovski seemingly attacked Elaine within the lounge room, with detectives discovering proof of a battle. 

Forensic consultants would later decide she had fought for her life, with traces of Pandilovski’s DNA discovered underneath her fingernails. 

When he was completed squeezing the life out of the instructor’s support, who had devoted her life to elevating their son, he dragged her down a flight of stairs into the house’s basement the place he stuffed her in a storage cupboard. 

Earlier than leaving, Pandilovski inexplicably took two pictures of Elaine’s useless physique – pictures that had been later found on his telephone. 

Pandilovski’s barrister David Hallowes, SC may present no clarification as to why his consumer took the pictures, however refuted ideas they had been ‘trophy pictures’. 

‘We say you should not discover that was in some way a trophy picture that has been taken. We are saying it offers him no credit score by any means however we are saying that discovering just isn’t one which your honour ought to make in opposition to him,’ he stated. 

‘In a way it would not actually match with the narrative of what then occurs, and we are saying it is hypothesis at finest in relation to that.’ 

Pandilovski was arrested after slamming his automobile head-on right into a random motorist in what detectives suspected on the time could have been a deliberate act to kill himself. 

Pandilovski instantly pleaded not responsible to his ex-wife’s homicide. 

Elaine Pandilovski and Zoran Pandilovski (pictured) had been highschool sweethearts. They’d a son collectively 

Detectives (pictured in 2020) are seen leaving the Mill Park property after discovering the physique of Pandilovski’s estranged spouse Elaine Pandilovski

Elaine Pandilovski’s (pictured) physique was found after police performed a welfare verify on the residence on at Mill Park 

A forensic psychiatrist had declared Pandilovski match to face trial in February final yr.

Throughout a listening to final yr, the court docket heard Pandilovski had been assessed by Dr Jacqueline Rakov, who reported she believed there was inadequate medical proof to help a defence of psychological impairment. 

Pandilovski then tried to get a distinct opinion from Dr Patrick Newton, who agreed with Dr Rakov’s analysis. 

He lastly pleaded responsible to Elaine’s homicide in April this yr a day into his Supreme Courtroom homicide trial. 

Elaine had been a particular wants college instructor, who additionally cared for her 10-year-old son with autism. 

She had lived alone with the couple’s son when her life was cruelly taken. 

Household grew to become involved for her welfare after she failed to show as much as work on the Lots Parkland Main College in Mill Park. 

Elaine had been highschool sweethearts together with her killer and beforehand lived collectively for 15 years.

Upon their separation, Pandilovski moved to the close by suburb of Epping the place he continued to carry hope that his estranged spouse would take him again.

Elaine Pandilovski seems deep in thought as her younger son enjoys an arcade sport. She can be useless lower than two years after the picture was taken

Ms Pandilovski’s aunt shared a heartbreaking put up concerning the lack of a ‘lovely, caring and compassionate’ girl

A police automobile is seen out the entrance of a residential property in Mill Park after the alleged homicide 

However the court docket heard he had been dwelling with false hope, together with his lengthy struggling ex telling buddies she had no intention of taking the brute again. 

Native residents stated Elaine was a faithful mom and had been dwelling on the single-storey residence with the couple’s son.

Her vicious loss of life rocked Melbourne and noticed an outpouring of grief from family and friends. 

One after the other Elaine’s family and friends fronted Pandilovski to inform him the gorgeous soul he had destroyed and the devastation his actions had triggered. 

Amongst them was Elaine’s teenage niece, who broke down in tears earlier than bravely studying out her intestine wrenching sufferer impression assertion.    

Mr Hallowes supplied little perception into why his consumer felt the necessity to homicide his ex-wife, who had continued to facilitate entry to their son all through their separation. 

The court docket heard Pandilovski merely ‘misplaced management’ upon visiting his ex-wife’s residence to gather their son’s broken iPad, with prosecutors accepting he had not deliberate the homicide. 

Mr Hallowes stated Pandilovski took no steps to hide his crime, regardless of shifting her physique into the basement, which he claimed was solely completed to spare their son from discovering his useless mum. 

Justice Christopher Beale will sentence Pandilovski on August 11.