Yoga teacherâs last words before killed A man was in the grips of a psychotic episode when he brutally attacked and killed Melbourne mum Maud Steenbeek. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Geraghty
News by Caroline Schelle 24th May 2021 7:18 PM
A Melbourne yoga teacher was on a Skype call to her brother when a stranger in the grips of a psychotic episode broke into her house and bashed her to death.
Maud Steenbeek was at her Heidelberg West home speaking to her brother in the Netherlands when she told him to âhold onâ in January last year.
The call cut out but before the connection dropped her brother heard her yell âget outâ or âget the f k outâ.
A Melbourne man has been found not guilty of murdering his neighbour due to mental impairment.
Maud Steenbeek, a 61-year-old mother-of-two, was found dead in her Heidelberg West home on Liberty Parade in January last year.
Xochil O Neill was experiencing a psychotic episode when he bashed Ms Steenbeek to death with a wooden paddle after breaking into her home.
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Ms Steenbeek was on a Skype call to her brother in the Netherlands at the time she was attacked.
Court documents revealed the mother could be heard telling O Neill to get out in the moments before her death.
Her son later came home to find her dead on the floor.
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Australiaâs drum beating will only worsen relations
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Warmongers should note very carefully former Defence chief Peter Cosgroveâs observations about China:the Peopleâs Liberation Army is now a very potent force, and China has âunequivocally said over a long period of time that they regard Taiwan as being a part of Chinaâ (The Age, 19/5).