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July 10, 2018 18:56:43
A jury was played dramatic vision security camera of a young woman attacking two people with an ax in a Sydney 7-Eleven. the trial of Evie Amati, 26, who is charged with badault with intent to commit murder last January.
Ms. Amati does not dispute the attack, but she pleaded not guilty because she said:
The vision of the security camera shows Mrs. Amati walking calmly into the 7-Eleven store at Enmore at about 2:15 with a 45 cm long ax in his hands and headphones in his ears. 19659007] Evie Amati "title =" Evie Amati "width =" 340 "height =" 227 "/>
Photo:
Evie Amati would have had fantasies about committing suicide and killing other people. (Provided: Facebook)
She then goes around the store before coming to the counter and talking to customer Ben Rimmer, who was waiting to pay for a meat pie.
After a brief conversation, Mrs. Amati raises the ax and scales it on Mr. Rimmer's face
While he falls to the ground and begins to bleed profusely, she then walks over to another client, Sharon Hacker, who buys milk.
the back of the head making her fall on the trail just outside the store's automatic doors
The security cameras then capture Ms. Amati leaving the store and walking calmly toward the road.
Some members of the jury move back slightly when they saw the impact of the ax hitting Mr. Rimmer and Ms. Hacker.
The ABC has chosen to show only part of this video.
As Mrs. Amati watched the video, she wiped her tears and put her hand on her mouth.
Witness still traumatized [19659018] Earlier, a man who saw the ambush, told the court that Ms. Amati approached him after the attack with blood dripping from the ax
"I saw what seemed to be fighting inside …" I had to register or call the police, "says Nathan Wood in court
" Shortly after taking out my phone, I saw a person inside the shop lift an object on his head and swing it.
"I saw a second body collapse on the So I saw it coming out of the building with the dripping ax and start approaching to myself. "
M. Wood described how Ms. Amati approached her as being "slow, firm and deliberate" and said that a few meters from him, she raised the ax
that she was planning to hurt so I made a crazy run up the block … and I sent the call to Triple 0. "19659004 "When I got to the end of the block, I turned around. to see if she was chasing him and I saw a homeless person behind me and I watched him take a swing with the ax on him. "
18 months have pbaded since the incident and Mr. Wood said that he was still" I'm even managing flashbacks – it's just that memory of To have locked her eyes with her under the light of the gas pumps, with her coming towards me and then me trying to run away, He said:
"She had lost her head" [19659025EarlierCrownAttorneyDanielMcMahontoldthejurythattheaccusedhadalreadyspokenoffantasiesofmurderJustanhourbeforetheattacksentamessagetoaFacebookfriendsaying"mostpeopledeservetodieIhatepeopleandonedayIwillkillalotofpeople"
Charles Waterstreet defense attorney said to the jury his client had never intended to kill anyone and was not healthy minded that night.
He added that she was psychotic at the time of the attack, caused by her mental illness and a "toxic mix" of bad transition hormone. "The CCTV captures the body of Evie Amati, she captures it from the moment she entered the 7-Eleven until she left, so the question you have to decide is where was his mind? " Mr. Waterstreet told the jury
Ms. Amati cried as the jury was told of her gender dysmorphism, depression and the difficulty she had following bad rebadignment surgery. man-to-woman
"On January 7, at dawn, she lost her mind," said Mr. Waterstreet
The trial before Judge Mark Williams is expected to last three weeks.
Topics:
courts and trials,
criminality,
aggression,
law-crime-and-justice
Sydney 2000
nsw,
Australia
Published
July 10, 2018 13:26:57
