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But he reduced the standard minimum sentence of 20 years for murder in NSW to 15 years and six months because of the murderer's "special circumstances".<\/p>\n
The judge said Thompson's significant mental health issues, the domestic violence he suffered as a child at the hands of his violent, schizophrenic, drug-addled father, his difficult schooling, exposure to drugs and sexual abuse by a teacher had diminished his moral culpability.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thompson was diagnosed with a complex post-traumatic stress disorder and severe personality disorder but was not considered psychotic when he murdered his former partner.<\/p>\n
He pleaded guilty in April, having previously been set to stand trial, and wrote a letter of remorse to the judge, claiming the pair had struggled with a knife and when his hand was cut "something inside me lost control".<\/p>\n
The murderer and his victim had been involved in a DV-marred, on-again-off-again relationship since 2019. He ignored an apprehended domestic violence order banning him from contacting her when he broke into her apartment and killed her.<\/p>\n
Acret said the appeal would be retraumatising but she wanted to avoid the sentence setting a precedent for future cases, noting her horror at the number of women who had contacted her since the court proceedings to share their own DV situations.<\/p>\n
"I think it wasn't until I got home [from the court after the sentencing] and sat down and let it sink in that I realised that it wasn't just horrific for our family, but it's horrific for women across Australia," the grieving mother said.<\/p>\n
"To receive zero for the breaches of avo is extremely scary, the precedent that sets, and how fearful women out there must be feeling right now, how this makes women feel.<\/p>\n
"It's really, really big, and this is much bigger than my family and my daughter and I have to keep fighting because I have to try and protect other women."<\/p>\n
– Reported with AAP.<\/em>\ufeff<\/p>\nSupport is available from the<\/strong> National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service<\/strong> at<\/strong> 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732)<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mother of a NSW woman murdered by her ex-boyfriend has welcomed prosecutors' decision to appeal his sentence, describing it as a "small step in a long journey". Tyrone Thompson, 25, stabbed 21-year-old Mackenzie Anderson 78 times with two kitchen knives over two minutes at her Newcastle apartment in March 2022. His punishment for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}