According to Sky News, a man who raped and strangled his student neighbour and threw her body into a canal in a suitcase has been jailed for 45 years. (Wicked world!)
Daniel Stani-Reginald, 21, had plotted to rape and murder a woman for years before choosing Tosha Thakkar, a 24-year-old Indian accounting student who lived in an adjoining room at his Sydney boarding house, Australia's Supreme Court heard.
He read thousands of internet articles on serial killers and sex attackers before assaulting Ms Thakkar in March 2011 and throttling her with a cable in a crime described by Judge Derek Price as "extraordinarily cruel".
Judge Price told the court: "The last minutes of her life must have been horrifying. This was a terrible way for the deceased to die."
After he killed Ms Thakkar, Stani-Reginald, who pleaded guilty, stuffed her body in a black cloth suitcase, took a taxi to a nearby canal and tossed it into the water in broad daylight, a "callous" act, said the judge.
CCTV footage filmed from the cab shows him pulling the suitcase along with her body inside.
He had shown no remorse and had poor prospects of rehabilitation, he added, ruling he was likely to offend again and was a danger to the community.
Though his father had murdered his mother in his presence when he was 10 years old, psychiatrists who examined Stani-Reginald found no evidence of mental illness.
Price jailed Stani-Reginald, who is of Sri Lankan descent, for a maximum 45 years, 30 years of which must be served without possibility of parole, stopping short of the life sentence sought by prosecutors.
Ms Thakkar's family were disappointed with the term.
Cousin Pratik Thakkar said: "We have lost Tosha forever. We're not going to get her back, so we were expecting a life sentence."
A spate of violent crimes against Indian students in Australia in recent years strained diplomatic ties between the two countries and prompted street protests, while foreign enrolments have dived.
Daniel Stani-Reginald, 21, had plotted to rape and murder a woman for years before choosing Tosha Thakkar, a 24-year-old Indian accounting student who lived in an adjoining room at his Sydney boarding house, Australia's Supreme Court heard.
He read thousands of internet articles on serial killers and sex attackers before assaulting Ms Thakkar in March 2011 and throttling her with a cable in a crime described by Judge Derek Price as "extraordinarily cruel".
Judge Price told the court: "The last minutes of her life must have been horrifying. This was a terrible way for the deceased to die."
After he killed Ms Thakkar, Stani-Reginald, who pleaded guilty, stuffed her body in a black cloth suitcase, took a taxi to a nearby canal and tossed it into the water in broad daylight, a "callous" act, said the judge.
CCTV footage filmed from the cab shows him pulling the suitcase along with her body inside.
He had shown no remorse and had poor prospects of rehabilitation, he added, ruling he was likely to offend again and was a danger to the community.
Though his father had murdered his mother in his presence when he was 10 years old, psychiatrists who examined Stani-Reginald found no evidence of mental illness.
Price jailed Stani-Reginald, who is of Sri Lankan descent, for a maximum 45 years, 30 years of which must be served without possibility of parole, stopping short of the life sentence sought by prosecutors.
Ms Thakkar's family were disappointed with the term.
Cousin Pratik Thakkar said: "We have lost Tosha forever. We're not going to get her back, so we were expecting a life sentence."
A spate of violent crimes against Indian students in Australia in recent years strained diplomatic ties between the two countries and prompted street protests, while foreign enrolments have dived.
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