The judge, the reptile and the crocodile tears

Sometimes defence barristers person to effort and support the indefensible and this was the batch of Lucinda Thies.

After the dreadful details of the transgression are read, Thies takes the well-travelled way of suggesting her lawsuit is remorseful and acted retired of character. It is wide the no-nonsense Hollingworth thinks this is implicit nonsense.

After the attack, Sven Lindemann transferred $71,000 betwixt slope accounts, tried to telephone his ex-wife and past turned the weapon connected himself.Credit: Facebook

The justice stops the barrister to picture the pathetic show of her lawsuit that the barrister couldn’t spot arsenic she was astatine the Bar array facing the judge.

“He enactment his caput successful his hands, helium was shaking. It was the astir melodramatic – fixed the worldly I’ve seen astir his implicit deficiency of remorse for her [the victim], to beryllium doing that; turning it on, seemingly for my benefit.

“I bash not judge helium has genuine regret for what helium did to Ms Lezsak ... The infinitesimal I told him to propulsion himself together, helium sat upright, helium was miraculously capable to power his emotions and I support my statement of crocodile tears.”

Monique Lezsak winning a assemblage gathering competition.

Any proposition of remorse is sunk by his ain words successful a situation telephone telephone to his parents wherever helium continues to blasted his victim.

“It was arsenic though she poured petrol connected to the occurrence ... That pistillate wrecked each of that for me. She wrecked everything for me. It was a blackout. She ripped my bosom retired of my chest, and she took everything from me.”

Little wonderment Justice Hollingworth is unimpressed. You get the feeling erstwhile the justice does condemnation him his tears whitethorn beryllium precise real.

Kaera Douglas, the spouse of Jye Carter, the begetter of Monique Lezsak’s duplicate children, was apprehensive the archetypal clip they met. But immoderate concerns instantly melted away.

“I met her successful December 2022. She welcomed maine with unfastened arms. She was the astir beauteous idiosyncratic some wrong and retired that I person ever met. She was amazing. I thought we would go large friends for life, but we didn’t get the chance.”

Douglas is simply a household unit survivor, repeatedly beaten and choked by her boyfriend, bikie Christopher Wayne Hudson, who took her dignity, her independency and precise astir her life.

On the greeting of Monday, June 18, 2007, conscionable arsenic metropolis workers were arriving astatine their jobs, Hudson began to bushed Douglas successful the street. “He grabbed maine and said, ‘Today is the time you are going to die’. I tried to marque a tally for it, past helium changeable maine successful the stomach.”

Solicitor Brendan Keilar, 43, a begetter of three, and Paul de Waard, a 25-year-old Dutch backpacker, tried to measurement in. Keilar was changeable and died adjacent the country of William Street and Flinders Lane. De Waard and Douglas (who mislaid a kidney) survived.

Douglas is speaking to america due to the fact that she believes Lindemann should beryllium jailed for life. (One feels Hollingworth would hold with her, but whitethorn beryllium constricted by the request to supply a condemnation discount owed to the killer’s blameworthy plea).

Family unit subsister Kaera Douglas.Credit: Paul Jeffers

“He is simply a cold-blooded slayer who has shown perfectly nary remorse. He doesn’t merit to locomotion among us. We person to alteration the civilization of a number of men liable for an epidemic. This has to stop.”

Lezsak’s mother-in-law, Annette Carter, remained adjacent with the household and regularly visited to spot the twins.

The archetypal clip she met Lindemann she recovered him “weird”.

“He was each implicit maine and successful my face. He wanted each the attention, and I was determination to sojourn the twins. It was each astir him, helium was a existent amusement pony.”

At dinner, helium moved adjacent to her to accidental she reminded him of his ain parent earlier bursting into tears.

She feels helium wanted to predominate the clip to support her distant from her grandchildren. “I thought of Monique arsenic my ain daughter. She was a beauteous person. I inactive can’t comprehend that she is gone.”

Lindemann’s self-serving proposition that helium snapped and blacked retired is self-deluded, pathetic and contrary to the facts. His actions marque him a monster, his excuses marque him a coward.

Here are the facts. Lezsak, 39, a caring parent to her twins, Lily and Leo (not their existent names), is devoted to fitness, winning respective elite bodybuilding competitions.

Lindemann, past 51, besides a bodybuilder, tried to blasted the usage of steroids for his murderous outburst.

They became a mates but Lezsak remains acrophobic with Lindemann’s acold narration with the twins. It is arsenic if their beingness interferes with the attraction the “show pony” craves.

On a travel to Queensland Lezsak meets a man, and they statesman to speech texts.

In aboriginal May 2023, Lezsak tries to extremity her narration with Lindemann. In the adjacent 2 weeks helium veers from abusing her to self-pity to seeking couple’s counselling.

Lezsak has transferred her savings to Lindemann for a deposit to bargain a household home. They stay surviving with her parents successful their Endeavour Hills home.

He finds the individuality of the different man, sending him threatening texts.

On the nighttime of May 29, she leaves the household location doubly to get distant from him and aboriginal sleeps successful her daughter’s room. Lindemann enters the country for different blazing row. Lily wakes crying.

Lindemann contacts his enactment to accidental helium volition not beryllium coming in. Around 6.15am connected May 30 helium enters the room arsenic Monique’s father, Zoltan, is preparing for work. He tells Zoltan his girl is crazy, and helium volition drawback his possessions and leave.

Lily and Leo are connected the futon successful the surviving country talking to their grandma erstwhile they perceive screams from the maestro bedroom. It is 7.32am.

Lily, 10, runs successful to spot her parent being stabbed truthful violently the weapon breaks.

Lindemann punches and strangles the wounded pistillate portion dragging her from the ensuite to the room to drawback different limb from the weapon block.

Lily yells, “Leave my parent alone.” He screams astatine Monique, “You person ruined my life.”

Unbelievably the small miss manages to footwear and disarm the bodybuilder, snatching the weapon and throwing it connected the room floor. He grabs another, again breaking it successful the frenzied attack.

A 2nd clip Lily grabs the weapon, but helium gets another. He uses six knives to stab her 17 times.

Lily continues to fight, though she is injured 5 times and volition request stitches successful 3 wounds.

Injured and seeing her parent being killed earlier her, she uses dependable designation to telephone exigency services. The telephone is automatically transferred to triple zero. Lezsak’s parent Maggie Peril hears Lily pleading, “Stay with maine mum, enactment with me”.

Lily tells the triple zero relation her parent is dead, and the slayer is successful the house.

Monique Lezsak and constabulary astatine the country aft she was murdered.

The relation transfers the telephone to a constabulary sergeant. She tells the constabulary serviceman she has tried CPR but Lezsak is dead. Both the parent and the girl are covered successful blood. Lily says to the sergeant, “My heart’s shattered successful pieces, my mum, I loved her truthful much”.

She is pleading with her parent not to permission her.

It is present 7.36am and arsenic the mortally wounded pistillate and her injured and heartbroken kid laic connected the eating country level Lindemann retreats to the chamber wherever helium jumps online and transfers $71,000 of their funds to different account, seemingly trying to fell it from his victim’s family.

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This is hardly the actions of idiosyncratic who has mislaid control.

He past stabs himself.

Police get and rescue Lily who screams astatine them to prevention her member who remains successful the house. The constabulary screen his eyes, truthful helium doesn’t spot his mother’s body.

Douglas says Lindemann, “Is a butcher. I anticipation [Lily] receives a bravery award. She fought truthful hard to effort and prevention her mother.”

Lezsak’s erstwhile spouse Jye Carter says, “I privation Monique to beryllium remembered. We some loved the kids truthful much. He shouldn’t beryllium capable to bash a plea deal. I privation the satellite to cognize what helium has done. Life with nary merchandise is the lone answer.”

If you oregon anyone you cognize needs support, you tin interaction the National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service connected 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732).