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Posted on 07/11/2007 10:30:07 AM PDT by dead
A 15 year-old schoolgirl hatched a plot to kill her parents because they grounded her and forced her to go horse-riding "when she didn't want to", a court has heard.
The Brisbane girl, who cannot be identified because she is a juvenile, enlisted the help of her 18 year-old boyfriend, Joshua Andrew Hockey, to slash their throats in the family's Newmarket home on February 18 last year after giving him a hunting knife as a Valentine's Day gift.
Hockey, 20, of Bellbowrie, and the girl, now 16, have each pleaded guilty to one count of attempted murder and conspiracy to murder. They will be sentenced this afternoon or tomorrow.
Brisbane's Supreme Court heard the star-crossed lovers had planned to dispose of the adults so they could run away together, but the plot came unstuck when Hockey slipped on a bath mat and was over-powered by the girl's father as he attempted to cut the man's neck in a frenzied attack.
Hockey, who was stabbed in the leg during the struggle, later collapsed in tears on the floor and asked: "What the hell am I doing? No matter how much I love her, I shouldn't have done it."
The court heard the pair first met over the internet in August 2005 and began seeing each other only a month before masterminding the killings.
The girl told Hockey - who had earlier bragged about being a hit-man - she was upset that her parents imposed restrictions on her social life and wanted to leave, but an attempt to run away from home on February 10 had failed.
After discussing how best to "get rid" of them, the couple decided Hockey would use a knife to cut their throats because the method was "a silent way to kill".
"He said that his motivation was that he loved her and would do anything for her," Crown prosecutor Angus Edwards said.
"(He believed that) without her parents around, he would be able to see her more."
Hockey went to the family's home during the early hours of February 18 and was let in by the girl, who gave him a balaclava and a change of clothes as a disguise.
He then lay in wait to kill each of the adults in turn as they got up to use the bathroom.
"There were no particular plans about who would be killed first; it was whoever came into the bathroom," Mr Edwards said.
"It was a matter of pure luck that (the father) managed to overpower Hockey and that it wasn't his wife - she may not have been so lucky."
The girl's father suffered a superficial cut to his neck in the bungled attack.
The court heard the man later "expressed a very strong disappointment" in his daughter, but had steadfastly refused to make a statement against her to police.
She later told investigators she had only wanted to "knock them out" so she could run away, but claimed Hockey had talked her into murdering them instead.
Asked why she had taken part in it, the girl said she didn't really know.
"She said she wasn't allowed to go out very much, she had to go horse-riding when she didn't want to and she didn't talk to her parents very much," Mr Edwards said of her excuse.
"The motivation seems a poor one.
"She was as much a part of committing this offence as Hockey was.
"She knew that she was letting him into the house with the express purpose of killing her parents.
"In my submission, the offences were chilling."
The court heard the girl had earlier given Hockey $450 to arrange a "hit" on her parents, but realised the sum wasn't enough.
i read it as baklava....
That stuff's got a sharp point.
I luv you
You luv me
We’re a happy fam-i-leeeee
wondered why they were taking time to eat dessert before murdering her parents!
baklava:
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Parenting is a dangerous occupation these days.
leave it us to see DESSERT in this!
Wow, I was ground so much as a teen...man I never thought of killing my parents. Sneaking out the window yea.
If I had tried to kill them I had better succeed because I would have been dead myself. (sarcasm)
LOL
The court heard the man later "expressed a very strong disappointment" in his daughter, but had steadfastly refused to make a statement against her to police.
"That's the last straw! Young lady, you have really gone and done it this time. Horse-back riding every weekend for the next three months!"
this thread deserves bumping...
“Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.” - Lazarus Long,
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