Children filmed playing on scooters while their mother allegedly lay dead inside

“Bye, see you in Dandenong,” Kumar says at the end of the two-minute video. “Say ‘see you in Dandenong’.”

In another video filmed by Kumar in darkness, the children played on scooters outside the unit.

“What’s my name?” he asked the older child four times. “Kumar,” the child replied.

”Good, good, good,” said Kumar.

In the third Facebook video, emergency services can be heard in the background as Kumar films the children, now changed from their pyjamas into traditional Indian clothing, outside the unit. “Do you want to come sit in the car?” an emergency worker can be heard saying off camera.

But Kumar tells the children to recite after him. “Say ‘glory be to Brahma, glory be to almighty Allah, glory be to paradise, heaven, Australia’,” Kumar says in the video.

“You are the king of Saudi Arabia. Be like a king.”

On Tuesday morning, the homicide squad’s Detective Inspector Dean Thomas said Kumar was known to the allegedly murdered woman and added that “people should be safe in their relationships”.

“One woman killed in a situation like this is too many, and we can’t stand for it,” Thomas said.

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One Cobram local said she saw a man matching Kumar’s description and wearing the same clothes from the Facebook videos doing push-ups on the footpath outside the unit on Tuesday morning.

“He was … removed from the premises and walked into the police station,” she said. “It was all quite strange.”

On Tuesday, Moira Shire council administrator Susan Benedyka said: “Days like today remind us that we still have a long way to go in addressing gender-based violence, both nationally and closer to home.”

Kumar is due to appear in a Shepparton court on December 10 for a committal mention. No application for bail was made.

With Erin Pearson

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