Daughter cooked, texted and watched TV, unaware mother had been murdered in next room

Forensic officers and police at the Alick St, Cabramatta home where Aminda Huynh found her mother’s body in 2012 Source: News Limited

THE night Aminda Huynh’s mother died, the young woman returned home from work and began cooking dinner, texting friends and watching television.

It was all very mundane, the crown says, except that she hadn’t realised her mum was lying in a pool of blood in the home’s front room.

Tony Thao Do has pleaded not guilty to murdering his 54-year-old wife Kim Lien Huynh who died in September 2012 from a combination of neck compression and sharp and blunt force injuries to her head.
Speaking at the opening day of Do’s trial, crown prosecutor Nicole Noman SC said Aminda had returned to her family’s Cabramatta home in Sydney’s southwest about 8.30pm on September 13.

Police at the Huynh family’s Cabramatta home in Sydney’s south west Source: News Limited

The 22-year-old didn’t turn on any lights in the front of the house as she made her way into the kitchen.
She cooked chicken pie, showered, fed the dogs, texted her sister and boyfriend and watched TV.
It wasn’t until hours later when she turned on the light in the home’s stairway to let the dogs out that she could see into the front room for the first time, the Supreme Court heard today.
“She saw her mother, she saw blood.”
Aminda called Triple-0 at about 12.13am but there was nothing paramedics could do when they arrived.
Do, having received a call from his stepdaughter, arrived home soon after.
He told police Ms Huynh had left their strata management business that afternoon while he had stayed at the shop.

Kim Huynh’s body is removed from her Cabramatta home in September 2012 Source: News Limited

Hours after this conversation, on September 14, he tried to kill himself, Ms Noman said.
It wasn’t until he was released from hospital almost a week later that Do gave another interview with police.
This time, Do said he had come home on September 13 and discovered his wife on the floor.
Thinking she had “fainted or fallen” he tried to pick her up, walking through blood as he did so, Ms Noman said.
Scared someone was still inside the house, he said he washed his hands and feet in the bathroom sink and then walked back to their shop and hid under a blanket.
“The footprints of the accused were located in blood around Kim’s body,” Ms Noman said.
Ms Noman said the pair had married in 2011 after they met online and Do had moved from America to Australia.
By the time of Ms Huynh’s death, they were no longer sharing a bed, she said.
But Do’s barrister Craig Smith SC said his client did not kill his wife.
“He left a suicide note. It was about missing the person he loved, not the person he killed.”
The trial continues.

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