A Mount Druitt man has faced court this week accused of fatally stabbing his pregnant girlfriend 49 times in the chest and neck, back in September, 2015.
Joshua Scott Homann does not deny that he killed his partner but has explained that it was due to mental illness he was suffering at the time.
His pregnant partner, 37-year-old Kirralee Paepaerei, was found by paramedics after Homann fled the couple’s home and went to a police station claiming home intruders had tried to stab him.
Paramedics were unable to revive Paepaerei, already a mother of four, or her unborn child.
Kirralee Paepaerei in April, 2015 Image credit: Facebook
The courts were told that at the time of the attack, two teenage relatives of the deceased were in the home. They heard the noises from the assault and called triple zero.
The allegedly heard Homann yelling, “shut the fing door” and “you fing, f*ing cts” before the attack.
Crown prosecutor Sean Hughes who was at the station when Homann arrived that day has told the courts that he knew something wasn’t right with Homann’s claims.
“Someone came into my house and tried to kill me,” Homan is said to have said in a panicked state. “I jumped out the window and drove straight here.”
“There was no such intruder. The deceased died at the hand of the accused, and the accused alone,” Hughes told the courts.
Homann’s lawyer continued to urge the courts to not see this as a domestic violence or drug use case, but to understand the power mental illness had over Homann.
The trial is continuing with Justice Lucy McCallum.
