Stranger walked through door, plunged knife into manâs neck A man who stabbed a council worker in the neck, leaving his carotid artery almost completely severed during an unprovoked attack, has been sentenced.
Crime by Vanessa Marsh
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Subscriber only A man who stabbed a council employee in the neck in an explosive and heinous unprovoked attack will have to serve six years in prison before he is eligible for parole. John Matthew Fitzgerald, 42, was found guilty of the horrific attack on Brisbane City Council draftsman Josue Natanael Espinosa-Cassanelli who was left fighting for life after he was stabbed in the neck at a Woolloongabba unit in 2019.
A former football player with a history of violence lured an inmate with a promise of a massage before strangling him and then going to play basketball.
by Vanessa Marsh
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Subscriber only A sadistic prisoner at the Woodford Correctional Centre lured another inmate to the jail laundry with the promise of a massage before he wrapped a bedsheet around the man s neck and strangled him to death. Carl William Sedgwick Bloomfield then went to play a game of basketball, leaving his victim s body to be discovered by another prisoner. The harrowing details of the death of Duke Schafer were revealed in the Brisbane Supreme Court on Friday after Bloomfield, 26, pleaded guilty to murdering his fellow inmate. Prison murder victim Duke Schafer, 36. Crown Prosecutor Dzenita Balic said the victim had only been in prison for about six months serving a sentence for drug offences when he was killed by Bloomfield who provided an irrational explanation for the murder.