Gittany's girlfriend defends killer in interview

The girlfriend of convicted fiancée killer Simon Gittany says she wouldn't mind if he were monitoring her phone calls but concedes it was a bit much for him to be spying on a woman he loved.

In a televised appearance Rachelle Louise also proclaimed Gittany's innocence and said she believed it would have been physically impossible for him to throw his fiancée, Lisa Harnum, off a 15th-floor balcony to her death in Sydney two-and-a-half years ago.

In a paid interview with Network Seven's Sunday Night program the 24-year-old rejected suggestions she bears a striking resemblance to Gittany's dead former fiancée.

"Personally don't think that we look alike ... She's got big beautiful eyes, and my eyes are not massive," she said. "I think [people who suggest she and Ms Harnum look alike] are trying to make Simon look like a predator ... That he allegedly killed a woman, and now he's gone for a woman that looks like her."

Ms Louise also rebuffed claims Gittany, 40, is a controlling individual.

She said she would have no objection if Gittany monitored her phone messages, as he did with Ms Harnum, through spying software saying "to be honest I really wouldn't care, because I don't have anything to hide''. 

But Ms Louise admitted it was the wrong thing to do, "because if you don't trust your partner, you shouldn't be with them — but we all make that mistake."

Ms Louise described footage of an altercation between Gittany and Ms Harnum just before her death as ''horrifying'', but said Gittany was ''acting instinctively'' by putting his hand over her mouth as he was trying to stop her from running away.

And she remains convinced Gittany did not throw the woman from a balcony.

"I'm 50 kilos. Do you think you could pick me up? I think it's physically impossible what they're saying that he did," she said.

Ms Louise added that Gittany was "completely transparent" about his extensive criminal record, which includes drug dealing and biting off part of a police officer's ear.

Referring to the ear-biting incident, from 1994, she said: "(He told me) he was defending himself ... You know, I don't condone what he did. But it happened."

Gittany is expected to be sentenced in the NSW Supreme Court tomorrow.

Author: Erin Tennant, Approving editor: Martin Zavan