Two crucial pieces to the state's case against suspected murderer Mohammed Haroon Ali were put in place yesterday as former girlfriend Daisy Chandra testified that Ali threatened to kill her after she attempted to end her relationship with him. Also, Adam Boffinger, a friend of Ali's, testified that Ali confessed, a few days after being taken into custody, to the murder charges he now faces.
Ali stands accused of the Feb. 1999 strangulation death of his then-girlfriend Tracey Biletnikoff at a downtown San Mateo drug treatment facility.
Chandra, the Fiji-born, distant cousin of Ali who had been romantically involved with him for some years prior to the assault and kidnapping by knife-point in 1994, testified yesterday in exchange for a reduced sentence on a forgery charge in San Mateo County.
The 25-year-old Chandra is currently serving a one-year term for a felony conviction, and is expected to be deported back to Fiji after serving out her sentence.
Defense attorney Chris Morales yesterday detailed many of Chandra's prior convictions
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