AAP General News (Australia)
02-14-2007
Vic: Killer organist deserves substantial jail term
A Melbourne judge has been told to disregard claims of provocation .. when it comes
to sentencing a church organist who beat his domineering mother to death with a hammer.
Prosecutor MICHAEL TINNEY has told the Victorian Supreme Court .. 27-year-old SIMON
RANDALL deserves a substantial term of imprisonment.
RANDALL has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his 61-year-old mother in September
2005 .. claiming she'd belittled and criticised him .. calling him pathetic and overweight.
In the pre-sentence hearing defence counsel .. JANE DIXON .. said RANDALL endured continued
provocation during his complex relationship with his mother.
She's told Justice SIMON WHELAN her client admitted his guilt at the earliest opportunity
.. and had been decent .. pleasant .. courteous and gentle until he was pushed beyond
his limits.
A jury earlier found RANDALL not guilty of murder .. accepting his guilty plea on the
lesser charge of manslaughter.
But Mr TINNEY's told the judge .. the provocation RANDALL experienced was far from
extreme .. with nothing coming close to physical cruelty.
No date has been set for sentencing.
AAP RTV mh/dk/tm/cp
KEYWORD: RANDALL (MELBOURNE)
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