NSW: Family who killed mother over witch belief not guilty
The husband and children of a woman killed because they believed she was a witch havebeen found not guilty of murder on the grounds of mental illness.
The 35-year-old nurse was stabbed in the chest and had surgical needle holders insertedinto her brain through her nose at her home in Glossodia, north western Sydney, last October.
Her estranged 40-year-old husband and 18-year-old son stabbed her while her 16-year-olddaughter helped beat her and stop her struggling.
The three have pleaded not guilty to murder on the grounds of mental illness.
None of the family can be named.
Justice GRAHAM BARR in the NSW Supreme Court accepted psychiatrists' reports whichfound the father, son and daughter all suffered from a disease of the mind and didn'trealise what they were doing was wrong.
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KEYWORD: GLOSSODIA (SYDNEY)
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