AAP General News (Australia)
08-11-2000
Qld: Sentence cut for battered killer = 2
MACKENZIE was the victim of domestic violence from within the first three months of her marriage.
Statements from the couple's three daughters confirmed a long standing pattern of alcohol-fuelled
domestic violence based on physical and psychological terror to her and the daughters.
The physical abuse included hitting her on the head, face and body, causing two miscarriages,
choking her and holding a knife or broken beer bottle to her throat.
He also subjected MACKENZIE to mental abuse, ordering her to take her clothes off,
forcing brutal sex acts upon her and on many occasions threatening to kill her.
He also verbally belittled her and nailed her bedroom door shut from the outside, making
her a prisoner, restricted her contact with other people and attended all her doctor's
visits.
Psychiatric evidence presented at sentence showed she was suffering a major depressive
illness at the time of the shooting, and that afterwards was genuinely remorseful and
-- despite all the abuse -- still loved her husband.
AAP smk/sc/rt
KEYWORD: MACKENZIE 2 BRISBANE
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