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Silvanus Satya Naidu has been jailed after trying to hire a killer to murder a man who befriended his wife on Facebook.

Silvanus thought his wife was going to leave him after 28 years of marriage.

Prosecutor Caroline Marco told the court Naidu’s wife had begun communicating with Kumar, an old university friend who lived in Sydney, by Facebook and phone.

She said Naidu was upset by Kumar’s attention to his wife and it gradually built into an obsession.

Marco detailed how Naidu originally approached a workmate to see if he could have Kumar beaten up.

The workmate reported the matter to police when it became clear Naidu was considering killing Kumar.

Marco told the court how the workmate eventually put Naidu in contact with a killer from New Zealand named “Moses”.

The killer was an undercover policeman who met with Naidu to work out the details of the murder.

The court was played covert police tapes in which Naidu suggested killing Kumar by pushing him over a cliff in a car, shooting him or strangling him.