Husband watched as accused killer showered with teenage girl, court told.

By Bonnie Christian

A 17-year-old girl showered with a female doctor accused of killing her husband while the husband watched and later joined them, a West Australian court has been told.

Chamari Liyanage is accused of killing Dinendra Athukorala, also a doctor, with a hammer while he slept at their home in the Mid West city of Geraldton in 2014.

The Supreme Court has heard Dr Athukorala was sexually coercive and forced his wife into having relationships with other women.

One of the women, who at the time of the incident was 17 years old and cannot be named, told the court the couple would invite her around for dinner regularly.

On one occasion they asked her to shower with them and filmed her while they waxed her legs.

Prosecutor Nick Cogin asked the woman what happened that evening.

“Chamari started waxing my legs and Din helped,” the woman told the court.

“[Doctor Athukorala] was in the bedroom.

“He was holding a video camera.

“He hugged me from behind and they asked me if I had a boyfriend.”

When asked what happened next, the woman said Liyanage took off her shorts and ran her hand over her underwear.

“I flinched because I was shy. I felt uncomfortable,” the woman said.

The woman said she then had a shower with Liyanage while Dr Athukorala watched and eventually joined the pair.

Couple ‘demonstrated sex’.

On another occasion, the couple demonstrated how to have sex, the woman said.

The woman said the pair would take her out for photography lessons and on one occasion bought her a camera.

She said they would also buy her clothes and shoes.

Liyanage sobbed loudly for several minutes as the woman, who is now 19, began giving evidence.

The witness told the court she visited Liyanage, whom she thought of as a second mother, at Greenough Regional Prison not long after she had been charged.

“When we got there we all hugged and cried. My mum was comforting her,” she said.

“[Liyanage] said she was very sorry. She said she feels very sorry for mum and that we happened to be a part of this.

“She said she wanted to protect me, my mum and other family members.

“She said Din was abusive. I felt very sorry for her.”

The woman said when she had spent time with the couple they had seemed “very happy”.

“They were always smiling, laughing, affectionate,” she said.

Liyanage told the woman her husband was sexually abusive and had “threatened to do something violent to her sister’s child”.

“She said she had left Din twice before because he was abusive but she went back because he said he was sorry,” she said.

The woman said Liyanage killed her “controlling” husband “to protect me and my mum”.

This post originally appeared on ABC News.