“She didn’t sound like Monika,” Ronald Chetty told the NSW Coroner’s Court on Thursday.“She sounded like she was really tired, like she just woke up. Maybe sick, you know.”“I told her I’d be home by 5.30, 6 o’clock. As soon as I’m home you can come and see the kids.”Ms Chetty never called back, he said.
At about 7.30pm on 3 January 2014 she was found in bushland in the western Sydney suburb of West Hoxton by two officers, who immediately saw she had been severely burned.She was taken to hospital and died 28 days later from chemical burns to 80 per cent of her body.She is thought to have sustained the burns weeks earlier, between December 7-14, according to a burns specialist who treated her.What exactly happened to Ms Chetty is the subject of a coronal inquest before deputy state coroner Elaine Truscott.
Mr Chetty described Ms Chetty as a “great mum” and a “good partner”, who changed after their separation in about 2009.Her gambling addiction led to financial difficulties, he said, and she often asked him and other family and friends for money.The inquest has heard that Ms Chetty appeared to have suffered prior burns, and was seen with burn injuries throughout 2012 and earlier in 2013.Mr Chetty said he saw burns on her previously and that she told him she was burned by a car radiator.He didn’t believe her, he said, but got nowhere pressing for further details.The inquest continues.
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