Battle over DV murderer's sentence
Mackenzie Anderson was murdered by Tyrone Thompson during a horrific attack inside her Newcastle home in March 2022.
He stabbed her to death just two weeks after he had been released from prison on parole for assaulting, intimidating her and destroying her property.
He also senselessly murdered her while subject to an apprehended violence order which was meant to protect the 21-year-old mother.
Upon his release from jail, Ms Anderson told friends that she was afraid that Thompson would kill her.
Thompson pleaded guilty to her murder and was sentenced to a maximum of 22 years and six months. Mackenzie Anderson. Instagram. Credit: Supplied
He will be eligible for release on parole in March 2038 after serving 15 and a half years.
The Crown has appealed against the leniency of Thompson's sentence and has taken its fight to have time added onto his sentence to the state's highest court, the Court of Criminal Appeal.
It is relying on a lone ground of appeal - that the sentence handed to Thompson by Justice Richard Weinstein in May is 'manifestly inadequate'.
Crown prosecutor Monica Millward on Friday told the three-judge panel of Chief Justice Andrew Bell and Justices Belinda Rigg and Sarah Huggett the sentence could become legal precedent if not corrected.
She highlighted the lengths Thompson went to contact Ms Anderson, including getting other people to message her on his behalf in an attempt to convince her to drop the AVO.
Ms Millward said the principle of general deterrence — which refers to sentences meted out by the courts serving to dissuade others from similar offending — should be given particular weight in cases of serious domestic violence.
'When one looks at all the relevant factors and the significance of them in this case, having regard to the nature of it and the seriousness of it, it is one of the numerous respects in which we say this sentence is demonstrated to be manifestly inadequate,' Ms Millward said.
On the night of the killing, Thompson was drinking in Ms Anderson's apartment, along with another man, but was asked to leave.
CCTV captured him returning at about 10.10pm and using a ladder to climb onto her balcony.
He again left but stole a set of keys, only to return minutes later to murder Ms Anderson.
Neighbours heard yelling coming from the apartment and one woman saw Ms Anderson standing at a window with her hands up. Young Newcastle mum Mackenzie Anderson was stabbed to death by her former partner Tyrone Thompson. Instagram. Credit: Supplied
The friend, who had previously been at the apartment, returned to find Thompson standing over Ms Anderson, stabbing her repeatedly in a pool of blood.
When police arrived, he yelled: 'Help me! She's dead.'
Police attempted to revive her and while they were attempting to save her life, Thompson yelled at them to attend to a wound to his hand: 'I'm bleeding out everywhere. Man, can you please help my blood pressure? Officer, can you help my blood pressure, please?'
An autopsy found she suffered at least 78 stab wounds to her head, neck, back, chest, abdomen, legs and arms.
The hearing continues.
More to come.
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