By Danielle McKay From: The Mercury February 26, 2010 3:31PM
What are these? A MURDERER who stabbed his mother 38-times with a knife has had his life sentence dropped after serving 20 years in prison in Tasmania.
The Mercury reports the market-garden labourer, who was 17 when he killed in 1990, does not wish to leave prison because of concerns that he may kill more people if allowed out.
Chief Justice Ewan Crawford placed a restriction order against the man, detailing that he continue to be detained in the prison's psychiatric unit.
The order will keep the man, a paranoid schizophrenic, in custody until he is well enough to be released.
The man stabbed his mother 38 times with a 20cm knife following a heated argument at their Granton home.
"The Grim Reaper arrived and he told me I should kill her,'' he later told police.
"You know she is Satan's daughter.''
During the man's original trial the Supreme Court heard he sometimes roosted in a pine tree and claimed to be a chicken.
His defence that he was not guilty by reason of insanity was rejected by a jury and he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
A subsequent appeal failed.
Chief Justice Crawford said the man had received treatment for his mental illness including medication and had shown slow and gradual signs of improvement, but had a long way to go before his release could be contemplated.
"He does not wish to be released from where he is," he said.
"He has developed an intense fear of the world outside and has expressed concerns that he may kill more people if allowed out.''
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2 comments:
I'v heard a lot about murder casses in my freinds blog, articles from Australia, but this really shocked me out, imagine a killer that supposed to be sentenced to death is release. The charges on him was drop but he didn't want to go out of the prison. Hm....it's okay if he realize how dangerous he was and willing to stay in jail. Imagine if a killer is brought out of jail maybe because there is no evidence of his or her fault, and he or she continues with what they've done before, murder casses will increase, plus with new comers in this field of murdering.....they will create many and many victims....I'm scared of what's out there....in one of my friends article there is apart where the victim was killed while sleeping in her own house! If inside is not safe what about the outside, it's the SAME....Oh God, please protect me ~amin~
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i'm sorry i can't read your language.......
could you translate it for me??
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