The stepson of Karen Ristevski says his father’s alibi doesn’t add up as her car’s fuel gauge had been faulty for more than two years and it couldn’t have ‘corrected’ itself from a bump in the road.
Anthony Rickard told the Herald Sun his father, Borce Ristevksi, was a ‘tight arse’ and refused to have the car fixed by an auto electrician because it cost too much money.
The alleged revelations cast further doubt on the veracity of Borce’s alibi, after the fuel gauge claim was previously disputed by a Melbourne mechanic who serviced the car.
‘It couldn’t have been corrected by a bump. The Calder (Freeway) is a smooth road … there’s not a bump that’s going to be hard enough to some- how fix (the gauge) itself after two or three years of it not working,’ Mr Rickard said.
The stepson of Karen Ristevski says his father’s alibi doesn’t add up as her car’s fuel gauge had been faulty for more than two years and it couldn’t have ‘corrected’ itself from a bump
Karen Ristevski (pictured left) disappeared from the home she shared with her husband Borce (right)
Anthony Rickard (pictured) told the Herald Sun his father, Borce Ristevksi, was a ‘tight arse’ and refused to have the car fixed by an auto electrician because it cost too much money
Mr Ristevski has told police he took the Mercedes-Benz SLK 200 coupe for a drive to test the faulty gauge on the day his wife Karen disappeared last year.
But the mechanic, who was interviewed by detectives last Friday, says he been servicing Ms Ristevski’s coupe for years and had never noticed an issue with the fuel gauge.
Mr Ristevski had claimed he was on a drive along the Calder Freeway to test the gauge when it suddenly corrected itself on June 29 last year.
Mr Rickard further revealed that Mr Ristevski simply told his wife to keep the car topped up, because fixing the gauge was too expensive.
But whilst he did support the faulty fuel gauge story, Mr Rickard said also that he doubted the gauge would have ‘corrected itself’ on the Calder Rd by a bump, as his father claimed.
Ms Ristevski (right) was last seen at her Avondale Heights home in June 2016 by husband Borce
‘It couldn’t have been corrected by a bump. The Calder is a smooth road … there’s not a bump that’s going to be hard enough to some- how fix it itself after two or three years of it not working,’ Mr Rickard said
Mrs Ristevski’s body was found in bushland in Mt Macedon Regional Park on February 20, and the Mercedes has remained a focus in her murder investigation
Mr Ristevski told police he and his wife had gotten into an argument about money before she left their Avondale Heights on June 29, 2016.
He then claimed to have gone for a drive to the Calder Park Raceway, before hitting a bump which caused the faulty fuel gauge to correct itself.
Mr Ristevski told police he then did a U-turn and returned home.
Mrs Ristevski’s body was found in bushland in Mt Macedon Regional Park on February 20, and the Mercedes has remained a focus in her murder investigation.
The Melbourne mechanic said that neither Mr Ristevski, nor Mrs Ristevski, ever raised the problem with him.
‘I told the detective, in the last three years I haven’t touched that car and he’s (Borce) never asked me to fix any faulty fuel gauge,’ he said.
Ms Ristevski’s body was discovered in bushland (pictured) near Mr Macedon in February 2017
Police released CCTV footage earlier this year of a black Mercedes-Benz SLK 200 coupe being driven towards Mt Macedon on the day Ms Ristevski disappeared.
Using an identical model to the Mercedes, detectives recreated the route they think Ms Ristevski’s murderer took to Mt Macedon on August 30.
The mechanic told The Herald Sun Mr Ristevski visited him a couple of weeks ago for a repair on a Volkswagen.
He said Mr Ristevski told him police still possessed the Mercedes.
‘Borce said he had started working for a road crew as a traffic controller just to get himself out the house,’ he said.
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