MORE allegations of adultery surfaced on Tuesday at the trial of odd-job worker Tharema Vejayan Govindasamy, this time involving his late wife Smaelmeeral Abdul Aziz.

Theirs was a stormy marriage, one which ended when the 32-year-old factory production operator fell to her death from a flat in Stirling Road, and he became accused of her murder.

The court has heard about the woman he brought home, but on Tuesday, it heard that she had two love affairs.

Her friend Selvaranee Kanakasabai testified on Tuesday that it was Tharema who told her that his wife was intimate with his friend, a man called Mani.

Madam Smaelmeeral was to confirm this with Madam Selvaranee a few days later, saying she was staying with Mani.

But she was not to be any happier with her boyfriend than with her husband: Mani beat her, so she called off the relationship in April last year, a month after she had filed for a divorce from her husband.

She then went on to an affair with a man called Jega.

The court had heard earlier that Madam Smaelmeeral married Tharema, a Hindu, in 2002 over the objections of her Muslim family.

She told her friends that her family had resorted to black magic to wreck her marriage, but despite this, the couple were happy - at least until their second child came in November 2005.

They started quarrelling over money and his inability to hold on to a job.

Around that time, she caught him in bed with another woman when she returned early to their Jurong West marital home one morning after her shift.

He became increasingly violent towards her and was even jailed for assaulting her.

The trial continues.

Read the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times.