Tweed husband admits to manslaughter Crime and Court News

"THEN I put my arms around the whole three and told them, won be coming home today Supreme Court was told yesterday these were the heartbreaking words Pamela Nay told her daughter Kylie Iskov three young children after Mrs Iskov had been found dead behind the wheel of a car driven by their father Clayton Iskov on August 6, 2007. Ms Iskov mother was giving her victim impact statement in the NSW Supreme Court at Lismore yesterday during Iskov sentencing hearing over his estranged wife death. Kylie Iskov husband, 39, was arrested in April 2008 and charged with murder after police claimed he had staged the fatal car crash on the Tweed Valley way at Mooball. Iskov denied he murdered his wife but last week the wealthy Tweed Heads builder pleaded guilty to charges of manslaughter, causing grievous bodily harm, kidnapping and causing actual bodily harm. Iskov admitted abducting his wife and holding her captive in their car on the morning of her death. He also confessed to assaulting her with a metal bar during an ordeal lasting more than three hours before she died. During yesterday hearing, Iskov was in the dock as his estranged wife parents and three sisters read victim impact statements to a packed courtroom. While telling of their personal grief family members said they felt for Ms Iskov two girls and one boy -- aged three, nine and eight at the time of their mother death. "They still have a long, hard and empty road ahead because there is no one to fill her shoes," said Mrs Nay. Meanwhile, Ms Iskov sister Tania Burke said the youngest daughter, now six, regularly wrote to her mum, with the most recent offering reading, didn have long with you mum tearful Robert Nay told the court he was still plagued by guilt over his inability to prevent his daughter death. "I lost Kylie and my life changed," he said. "Every time I try and relax . I see Kylie crying, help I will never be able to tell her that I love her and I sorry I wasn able to be there to protect her." The prosecution had previously alleged Iskov, one of two directors of Tweed Heads company Clayton Iskov Building, killed his wife over fears he would have to surrender $1 million and 60 per cent of his assets to his estranged wife should they divorce. During submissions yesterday, Crown Prosecutor Col McPherson told the court Iskov crime had also been motivated by anger and jealousy over his failing marriage. Iskov lawyer Tim Game, SC, also acknowledged his client frame of mind and said Iskov had actively been receiving treatment for depression from several sources in the fortnight before Ms Iskov death. He said Iskov had indicated to one health professional he was and jealous of another man with whom he feared Ms Iskov was sharing a budding relationship.