As I was scanning the news I came across this very creepy crime...

A woman who stabbed her partner 37 times before skinning him, beheading him and baking his body parts as a meal for his children, claimed a penalty of life in jail was too severe for the killing.
Katherine Knight, 50, in 2001 became the first woman in Australia to be jailed for the term of her natural life, after being convicted of the "horrendous" murder of her de facto husband, John Price.
But Knight, a former abattoir worker, appealed the life sentence, claiming the February 2000 killing was not in the worst category of murder.
Justices Peter McClellan, Michael Adams and Megan Latham dismissed the appeal in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal.
Knight, 50, pleaded guilty to the February 29, 2000, murder of Mr Price.

She had repeatedly stabbed the 44-year-old father of two as she chased him around the home they shared at Aberdeen, in the NSW Hunter Valley.
Knight stabbed Mr Price 37 times with a butcher's knife before skinning him and hanging his hide from a meat hook in their lounge room.
She then decapitated him and put his head in a pot on the stove, baked flesh from his buttocks and cooked vegetables and gravy as side dishes to serve to Mr Price's children.
Police found the macabre dinner before the adult children arrived home.

If you'd like to read more about it here is the link
The horror...

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I echo Hivetyrant.............

I don't know if it's weirder that she committed the crime, or that she was planning on serving him to the kids, or claiming that it was not the worst kind of murder.

Or is that "wurst" kind of murder.... :D

I'll go quietly now...

seen it.. puked at it.. .... and hives reaction

I was having a crappy day until I saw that :D

Well at least she had the courtesy of killing him, before she skinned and cooked him. o_O

<font color="cyan">Some people are proper fcuked up in the head!!</font>

I googled a bit about her... there's more...

I won't include it here... too nasty, at least in my mind. Let's just say this didn't exactly come out of the blue...

<font color="cyan">Pm me with it B!!</font>

Done.

Anyone else wanting to look, Google for "Katherine Knight" (in quotes). It was about the fifth or sixth entry... look for the end of the Daily Telegraph story. Don't blame me if it makes you feel nasty afterward.

You guys broke that website, it's over it's data transfer rate now.

<font color="cyan">Lol, poor Luvian [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Edit - B, nasty link! Ta for the PM.

The dog stuff wasnt nice :( </font>

[ 09-11-2006, 01:04 PM: Message edited by: Lavindathar ]

Google for "Katherine Knight" and you can find the details. I forget... does Oz have the death penalty?

Agree on the dog, Lavindathar. At eight weeks, it was truly just a puppy... the mind boggles.

<font color="cyan">Couldn't agree more. And call us Brad, don't like being called Lavindathar no more. It's worn off in 6 years lol.</font>

[ 09-11-2006, 02:41 PM: Message edited by: Lavindathar ]

<font color=cyan>Brad it is...</font>

:D

[ 09-11-2006, 03:23 PM: Message edited by: Bungleau ]

<font color="cyan">Less of the cyan stealing!</font>

[img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

Yep, Brad's got buttons... [img]smile.gif[/img]

I usually don't push people's buttons on purpose, but when they're so... easily done... it's hard to resist.

We will try to resist.

<font color="cyan">I don't have many buttons, I have a pink car for gods sake.

But the cyan is my colour! [img]tongue.gif[/img] </font>

I'm not really sure if we do... I don't think we do we just put people in jail for life.

Fraid not, but for times like this, I wish it did :(


Hmmmmm
http://www.news.com.au/common/imaged...5175039,00.jpg
Charming picture of the two.....

<font color="cyan">But Lauren, does life mean life in Austrailia?

Cos it doesnt in england.

Life - around 15-20 years.</font>

[ 09-12-2006, 06:44 AM: Message edited by: Lavindathar ]

25 years here in Australia usually.

She's actually been sentenced for the rest of her natural life... not the "life with parole" that people usually get.

<font color="cyan">But will that be served?

Or does good behaviour etc come into it and she gets out early cos she is remorseful?

They do in england [img]graemlins/1pissed.gif[/img] </font>

[ 09-12-2006, 08:59 AM: Message edited by: Lavindathar ]

According to one story...



Doesn't look like the time off for good behavior option is active.

She's apparently been trying to appeal her sentence since it was handed down, but the lawyers aren't having much luck finding loopholes.

To the Aussies... are there cases (like this) where parole or early release are not available?

<font color="cyan">I think there were a few cases in England were parole wasn't optional, like in the case of the Moors Murders. They been in since the 60's, and won't ever get out.</font>

Chased her husband around with a knife? For times like these I wish we still had the old punisment of making people fight to death on an arena.

<font color="cyan">Nah, bad idea.

Theres always the chance someone as loopy as that might actually win back their freedom.

Safer to throw away the key.</font>

I'm not saying that we should set the survivor free. The survivor just lives to see the next match.

<font color="cyan">Ok thats allowed.</font>

Just so long as it's other convicted criminals that fight.

Convicted criminals and possibly professional gladiators who have signed some kind of paper that says that it's their own fault if they die.