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Sydney Axe Attacks: Woman Jailed Woman Jailed For Wounding 7-Eleven Customers
DAPULSE ^ | 1/17/2019

Posted on 01/18/2019 6:16:15 AM PST by Gamecock

A woman who randomly attacked two people with an axe in an Australian convenience store has been jailed.

Evie Amati, 26, seriously wounded the man and woman at a 7-Eleven in Sydney in January 2017. She swung her axe at a third customer but did not injure him.

Amati pleaded not guilty on mental health grounds at a trial last year, but a court rejected her argument.

On Friday, a judge sentenced her to a maximum nine years in prison for the “very serious” incident.

“The risk of death was high in each cases and the fact that death did not occur was entirely a matter of good fortune,” Judge Mark Williams told the New South Wales District Court.

Security footage played during the trial showed Amati approaching her first victim, Ben Rimmer, as he waited to buy a meat pie.

After a brief conversation, she struck Mr Rimmer in the face. He was knocked to the ground with a 10cm (4in) facial wound and fractures.

She then attacked her second victim, Sharon Hacker, near the door, fracturing the woman’s skull.

Amati turned on a third customer, Shane Redwood, but he shielded himself using his backpack. She was arrested shortly after.

The court heard that Amati had been “out of her mind” after consuming drugs, alcohol and prescription medication.

She testified that her mental health had declined prior to the attack, after she began taking hormones to transition from male to female.

However, a jury rejected her lawyer’s argument that she was suffering from “mental derangement”.

Amati will be eligible for parole in 2021.


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1 posted on 01/18/2019 6:16:15 AM PST by Gamecock
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We are in desperate need of common sense ax control.


2 posted on 01/18/2019 6:16:50 AM PST by Gamecock (In church today, we so often find we meet only the same old world, not Christ and His Kingdom. AS)
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To: Gamecock

taking hormones to transition from male to female.


3 posted on 01/18/2019 6:18:08 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Gamecock
She testified that her mental health had declined prior to the attack, after she began taking hormones to transition from male to female.

OK
4 posted on 01/18/2019 6:18:55 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: Gamecock
her first victim, Ben Rimmer, as he waited to buy a meat pie...

The forensic path leads one to question what the second victim was buying. Presumably a meat pie as well.

The perp must HATE meat pies.

5 posted on 01/18/2019 6:21:00 AM PST by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: Gamecock

According to her testimony, she pleaded insanity because, in part, the hormones she was taking to transition from female to male.

If I was on the jury, I’d have accepted the insanity defense the second she said she was transitioning.

Who the hell does that.


6 posted on 01/18/2019 6:21:24 AM PST by Lazamataz (McCain's passing ended up being + 2 net Republican Senators. Him, and Lindsey Graham.)
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To: Gamecock

There should be a 7-day waiting period to buying axes. I’d also suggest a background investigation.


7 posted on 01/18/2019 6:21:33 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Gamecock
If it was taking hormones to “transition” from male to female, it is a male. And a male it will forever be, perhaps a screwed up one or a surgically mutilated one, but none the less, a male.
8 posted on 01/18/2019 6:26:54 AM PST by sport
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To: C210N
The perp must HATE meat pies.

See, they weren't halal ...

9 posted on 01/18/2019 6:32:18 AM PST by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: Gamecock

Actually I am quite pleased with the 9 year sentence. Britain should take a lesson from Australia. When we lived in Britain, a man in a nearby village murdered his wife. From the details that were published, it was obvious he murdered her. The verdict in the case? Just ‘misadventure’. He did say she was a nag......so there was that.


10 posted on 01/18/2019 6:42:27 AM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

She testified that her mental health had declined prior to the attack, after she began taking hormones to transition from male to female.

Yeah, I got that, too.

Liberalism is a mental disorder!

11 posted on 01/18/2019 6:51:31 AM PST by Perseverando (For Progressives, Islamonazis, Statists, Commies & other DemoKKKrats: It's all about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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To: Gamecock

She’s nowhere close to the record.

Love, Lizzie


12 posted on 01/18/2019 7:17:47 AM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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To: Gamecock
She testified that her mental health had declined prior to the attack, after she began taking hormones to transition from male to female.

I have no reason to doubt this.

Enabling the mental illness known as "Gender Dysphoria" is medical malpractice.

13 posted on 01/18/2019 7:20:51 AM PST by Drew68
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To: C210N
The perp must HATE meat pies.

"He hates these cans. Stay away from the cans."

14 posted on 01/18/2019 7:20:55 AM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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To: Gamecock

I’m gonna go get the papers, get the papers...


15 posted on 01/18/2019 7:27:55 AM PST by dakine
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To: Gamecock

NOT “she”...mentally ill man. What idiots.


16 posted on 01/18/2019 8:07:31 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Gamecock

Careful with that axe Evie


17 posted on 01/18/2019 8:30:57 AM PST by JZelle
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To: originalbuckeye
Actually I am quite pleased with the 9 year sentence.

The sentence seems appropriate, but parole eligibility kicks in after only 2 years.

18 posted on 01/18/2019 10:58:24 AM PST by ken in texas
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To: ken in texas

Yikes! Did not realize that! So, still much like the UK, where violent attacks are never penalized appropriately.


19 posted on 01/18/2019 11:53:43 AM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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