The mechanic of murdered Melbourne mum Karen Ristevski says he had no knowledge of an alleged faulty fuel gauge on Karen’s Mercedes-Benz SLK 200 coupe, directly contradicting her husband Borce’s claim he took her car for a drive to test the faulty gauge on the day she went missing.
Moreover, the Mercedes specialist says it would be unlikely the model would even have this sort of problem. The Herald Sun reports police interviewed the mechanic, who wishes to remain anonymous, last Friday.
“I told the detective, in the last three years I haven’t touched that car and he’s (Borce) never asked me to fix any faulty fuel gauge,” he told The Herald Sun.
“In all my time working on Mercedes-Benz cars, I’ve never come across this type of problem before.”
Karen’s body was found eight months after she went missing in the Mt Macedon Regional Park on February 20th.
Since then, her husband Borce, whom she had a fight with shortly before leaving her family home for the last time, has remained a prime suspect in the case.
This latest explosive claim comes after alleged holes in his whereabouts. Detectives have been trying to account for Borce’s movements on the day his wife was last seen.
Karen had a fight with her husband shortly before leaving her family home for the last time, and he has remained a prime suspect in the case.
He reportedly can’t account for almost 100 minutes on the day Karen vanished.
Mr Ristevski told detectives he’d taken Karen’s car for a drive on the Calder Freeway but when pressed, he couldn’t account for “almost an hour and forty minutes”.
Both their phones were traced to be on the Calder Freeway that day but Mr Ristevski’s phone was turned off for two hours. The couple’s daughter Sarah, now 22, was interviewed by police too, being the last person to see her mother before the row with her father.
Borce also “refused to answer any more questions” and cut his police interview short, according to The Herald Sun.
A man who claims he met Mr Ristevski in South East Asia during a business trip has also come forward to say he made chilling comments during their brief time together.
The man, who chose to remain anonymous, told 7 News that his interactions with Mr Ristevski sent “shivers down [his] spine”
“When I first met him, I asked him if he was married and he didn’t reply back to me. I found that a bit weird,” the man said.
“One of the comments he threw out that I found was very, very weird was, ‘this is a good place to get rid of somebody,’ and it’s not like something you say to someone you’ve just met.”
After seeing Karen’s case on the news, the anonymous man told the police about the interaction.
“There was something eating me up inside saying I should report it to police,” he said.
The police have been appealing for witnesses since Mrs Ristevski was last seen on June 29 last year.
So far, they haven’t charged anyone with her murder.
