Anthony Sherna told a Supreme Court jury his de facto partner Susanne Wild cut him off from contact with friends and family, was “unpredictable” and would constantly put him down.
“She just used to call me a weak little bastard,” he said.
The jury has heard Mr Sherna strangled Ms Wild with a dressing gown cord in February last year after she woke his dog and then buried her body in their back yard in Melbourne’s southwest.
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Mr Sherna said if people knocked on their front door the couple had to pretend they were not home. His partner, who had a number of aliases, also would not let him give out their address to his family. […] Mr Sherna said Ms Wild, 53, would call him at work several times a day about trivial things and did not let him socialise with his work mates. She also accused him of having affairs. “I dreaded going home. I just wanted to stay at work as long as I could,” he said. Mr Sherna said his wife would pick fights with neighbours and abuse them. At one house where they lived, she would not let him use the toilet, telling him to use the amenities at work or the local shopping centre instead. They slept in separate rooms, she refused to have photos taken with him and never wanted to go on holidays or out for dinner.
Ain’t love grand, especially when you’ve got cop relatives to keep the little twerp in line?
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They let some women off for killing abusive husbands.They should let this guy off,or give him a medal.
Aren’t all marriages like this? Glad I am a bachelor.
She appears, by his account to be a paranoid psychotic.
“I’m not saying he should have killed her….. But I understand.”
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“to Mr. Sherna))…. and you couldn’t pack your bags and leave because?….’
If that applies to him it should apply to everyone else (including women).
I would have killed the bitch too.
I have to agree with #1 on this one, not that I approve of what he did or what other women have done…
This is why I am for same sex marriage. Why should homosexuals be spared marital bliss?
We’ll see how “Gay” they are after 10 years of marriage.
Funny, we got Divorzio all’italiana from the public library and watched it yesterday. Spoiler below.
Mastroianni got three years for divorcing (murdering) “his fatuous and fawning wife” (well-shaped, but with a moustache and unibrow). A 1961 comedy classic.
Guilty as charged. Sentenced to five days hard labor.
What a loser! Not only does this guy marry the wicked bitch of the west, but then he has to kill her effectvely destroying his own future.
More often than not your spouse/partner/whatever is a reflection on you. It’s not surprising that someone who tacitly approved of bullying by a psycho spouse would wig out and murder her. Like attracts like…
#13 for the win
“Casper Milktoast”