Conman ordered to court over kill claims

CONMAN Peter Foster has been ordered to give evidence in court after making explosive claims about the alleged murder of Gold Coast mother Novy Chardon.

John Chardon, who was arrested and charged with his wife’s murder in 2016, will face a committal hearing in Brisbane Magistrates Court in May.

A magistrate yesterday ordered Foster be brought to give evidence at the hearing after the convicted conman made explosive claims about the death of Mrs Chardon.

Foster claims that millionaire businessman Chardon confessed in jail that he used a gun with a crude homemade silencer to shoot his wife in the back of the head because she wanted a divorce.

The allegations were revealed in a Brisbane Magistrates Court hearing earlier this year with accusations Chardon asked a secret lover to hire a hitman to kill his wife.

He also claimed Mrs Chardon sent her husband a letter the day she vanished telling him she was taking their two children and half their assets.

Novy Chardon disappeared on February 6, 2013, and her husband, who ran a successful international lubricants company, was charged three years later after a lengthy investigation into one of Queensland’s biggest suspected murder mysteries. The body of the 34-yearold Upper Coomera mother has never been found.

Foster was jailed in 2014 for contempt of court over his SensaSlim scam.