{"id":1116,"date":"2025-04-07T09:30:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T09:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2025-04-07T11:12:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T11:12:54","slug":"family-of-husband-killed-by-wife-while-she-was-sleepwalking-demand-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/family-of-husband-killed-by-wife-while-she-was-sleepwalking-demand-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of husband killed by wife while she was sleepwalking demand justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

The family of a man killed by his wife while she was sleepwalking has blasted Victoria's<\/a> Office of Public Prosecutions (OPP) after she walked free because a murder charge could not be proven.<\/p>\n

Serdar Caliskan, 50, was stabbed to death by his wife Ilknur, 47, while the pair were on a camping trip in 2023, however the murder charge was dropped due to Ms Caliskan's sleep disorder.<\/p>\n

Mr Caliskan's family\ufeff told 9News they have been in "hell" since his death and believe the justice system has let them down.<\/p>\n

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\"Serdar<\/p>\n

That anger stretches all the way to Mr Caliskan's homeland in Turkey, where his mother and siblings say they weren't warned Ms Caliskan's murder charge would be dropped.<\/p>\n

"I think the OPP have let us down, they let down the family," Mr Caliskan's niece Ceren Gover said.<\/p>\n

\ufeff"We are not being informed, they ignore us. They cut us off," his brother Muzaffer added.<\/p>\n

The husband and wife were camping at Mount Disappointment in Victoria's north in September 2023 when Ms Caliskan stabbed \ufeffher husband in the heart.<\/p>\n

She was initially charged with murder but later proved a sleeping disorder made her sleepwalk out of the car-top tent, down a ladder and to a table in the bush where she grabbed a knife and stabbed her husband to death.\ufeff<\/p>\n

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Mr Caliskan's family claim in the 26 years the pair were married, his wife's sleep disorder was never mentioned.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"His parents had never heard of this," Gover said.<\/p>\n

"They lived in a house together for over a month. No mention of this."<\/p>\n

Mr Caliskan's family are calling for restrictions to be put on people like Ms Caliskan who are freed.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"Our concern\ufeff is the community and her kids who live in the same house as her," Gover said.<\/p>\n

\ufeffThe OPP told 9News the decision to drop a murder charge was not done lightly.<\/p>\n

"After carefully reviewing the opinions of several experts, it was determined that the elements of murder could not be made out beyond reasonable doubt," the OPP said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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The family of a man killed by his wife while she was sleepwalking has blasted Victoria's Office of Public Prosecutions (OPP) after she walked free because a murder charge could not be proven. Serdar Caliskan, 50, was stabbed to death by his wife Ilknur, 47, while the pair were on a camping trip in 2023, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}