Youth Stabbed Dad In Neck: Court
Illawarra Mercury
Wednesday September 20, 2000
A teenager stabbed his father in the neck with a breadknife after being nagged about suspected drug abuse, a Supreme Court jury heard in Brisbane yesterday.
The teenager, 16 at the time, cannot be identified. He is charged with attempted murder and, as an alternative charge, causing unlawful wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm on November 8 last year.
The boy, his younger brother and their father lived in Brisbane's southern suburbs.
Prosecutor Col Rowntree said in the days before the attack the father found a burnt spoon in the backyard and another in his son's room, the court heard.
The youth replied he had been ``brutalising" cockroaches and other bugs.
His father had warned he would ``break both his arms" if he had been using intravenous drugs.
On the day of the attack, the father was at the kitchen table and the son behind him at a bench with a breadknife. The father felt what seemed like a punch to the neck which almost threw him off his chair.
A broken knife was on the floor. Blood was gushing from his neck, Mr Rowntree said.
The wound went through the father's throat and ended next to his right tonsil, passing within 1cm of major arteries including the internal jugular vein.
The boy went directly to police and told them he had accidentally stabbed his father in the throat.
He said he slipped on water on the kitchen floor and he fell forward, plunging the knife into his father.
The trial is continuing before Justice Ken Mackenzie.
No clues to Melbourne murder
Homicide investigations into the murder of a top Melbourne show dog owner stepped up yesterday after a search around his home offered no clue to his death.
Father of two, locksmith Paul Anthony Parsons, 39, was found bashed to death in the lounge of his Werribee home on Friday night.
Detective Inspector Brian Rix said police were unable to speculate on why Mr Parsons was killed.
His wife arrived home with their two daughters, aged four and nine, about 8.20pm and asked a neighbour to investigate after she noticed something wrong with the front door.
An autopsy later determined Mr Parsons died of serious head injuries.
Train severs man's legs
A man lost both his legs and his abdomen was severely cut yesterday when he was trapped under a train.
Ambulance crews were called to Goodna Railway Station, west of Brisbane, just before 9am.
An ambulance spokeswoman said the man remained conscious during the rescue, which took almost two hours. The heat of the train's wheels prevented severe haemorrhaging of his arteries.
The Queensland Fire and Rescue Authority used air bags and heavy equipment to lift the train off the man. A medivac team stabilised him before he was rushed to the Princess Alexandra Hospital for emergency surgery.
It was believed there were no suspicious circumstances.
Trainees survive runway crash
Air safety investigators are examining a crash involving two trainee pilots.
Both were in two-seater training planes at Merredin, 260km east of Perth on Monday.
Australian Transport Safety Bureau spokesman Barry Sergeant said one plane was on the airstrip and the other, which was landing, clipped the stationary aircraft's tail.
``One was on the ground, on the runway. While the other one was landing, it's clipped the tail of the one on the runway," Mr Sergeant said.
Both planes were substantially damaged but there were no serious injuries.
© 2000 Illawarra Mercury
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