The Woman Who Served Her Husband For Dinner
June 28th 2006 08:17
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is possibly the sickest, most repulsive, stomach-churning court case I have ever encountered.
Katherine Knight, a 37 year old abattoir worker from NSW, has been convicted of the murder of her de facto husband, John Price, and sentenced to life in prison.
Key words. Abattoir worker.
Ms Knight stabbed Mr Price almost 40 times. She then chopped off his head and made what Justice O’Keefe has called a “sickening stew”. But the brutal mutilation didn’t stop there. Knight then sliced her ex husband’s buttocks, cooked it on the stove and served it with vegetables as a meal for her victim’s children! And the entertainment for the evening? Their dead father's skin hanging from a meat hook in the lounge room...
I have read about violent murders before but nothing as ghastly and repulsive as this. What on earth was this woman thinking? How can anyone be so malicious? So evil? And to expose the poor children to their father’s mutilated, blood-drenched body is just incomprehensible.
The scary thing is that Ms Knight is currently appealing her sentence to the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal. To use the words of Justice Adams, life sentences are generally reserved for “crimes so wicked...there ought to be no prospect of release.” However, Knight’s defence team will be arguing that their client’s borderline personality disorder was not taken into account in the initial sentencing. This means there is a possibility of reducing Knight’s jail sentence, even if she committed a crime so wicked.
Should she be sentenced to life? Should she be given the prospect of release in the future? The decision will be made very soon, though a date is yet to be fixed.
Katherine Knight, a 37 year old abattoir worker from NSW, has been convicted of the murder of her de facto husband, John Price, and sentenced to life in prison.
Key words. Abattoir worker.
from www.morguefile.com
Ms Knight stabbed Mr Price almost 40 times. She then chopped off his head and made what Justice O’Keefe has called a “sickening stew”. But the brutal mutilation didn’t stop there. Knight then sliced her ex husband’s buttocks, cooked it on the stove and served it with vegetables as a meal for her victim’s children! And the entertainment for the evening? Their dead father's skin hanging from a meat hook in the lounge room...
I have read about violent murders before but nothing as ghastly and repulsive as this. What on earth was this woman thinking? How can anyone be so malicious? So evil? And to expose the poor children to their father’s mutilated, blood-drenched body is just incomprehensible.
The scary thing is that Ms Knight is currently appealing her sentence to the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal. To use the words of Justice Adams, life sentences are generally reserved for “crimes so wicked...there ought to be no prospect of release.” However, Knight’s defence team will be arguing that their client’s borderline personality disorder was not taken into account in the initial sentencing. This means there is a possibility of reducing Knight’s jail sentence, even if she committed a crime so wicked.
Should she be sentenced to life? Should she be given the prospect of release in the future? The decision will be made very soon, though a date is yet to be fixed.
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Comment by Cibbuano
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what did the kids do? Imagine that, when they grow up, they'll have to tell people, 'My Dad? No, he died. We ate him.'
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This is why I don't eat things that are raw, or that smell or look funny...
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I also have to agree with Cibby on the interact with society point. No matter how responsible for their actions a criminal is we still have to take into account that we all need to be protected from psychopaths.
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Ps Cibby, I don't think they actually ATE the dad. I think he was just SERVED for dinner. Not that that's any better...
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speaking of psychopaths, it really burns my blood, that thing in Perth, where that 8-yr-old girl was raped and strangled in about 4 minutes. Can't we find that guy and disembowel him?
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Anyway, I keep seeing photos of that little girl and it just makes me wanna cry. That poor poor thing. I'm totally with you on the disembowelment point.