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19 years for killing gran |
| Consider this a warning, if you're easily weirded or don't wanna hear about 'Freeway' being used as inspiration for a murderer than go no further. I heard about this on the news and my first thought was something I can't really say, but you get then general idea if I substitute with "What a funker!" But I thought it is vaugly Pretender related and few people would have heard of it etc... Well, read on if you're still with me. |
A
man who murdered his grandmother in an identical way to a
scene in a film he had seen days earlier was yesterday
jailed for 19 years for his act of depravity. Adrian Douglas Porter strangled Yvonne Seaton, 69, before having sex with the body in Mrs Seaton’s Frankston home on August 23 last year. Supreme Court Justice Phillip Cummins said the seed of the crime had been planted y the Oliver Stone film Freeway which Cummins [I have a feeling that this bit is supposed to say Porter, but who knows...] had seen on video the week before. The 1997 R-rated film, starring Kiefer Sutherlan and Brooke Shields, is loosely based on the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood. It shows a serial killer murdering the grandmother of the main character before having sex with the body. Justice Cummins said he did not consider Porter went to his grandmothers house to act the film out, although the film would have been in the back of his mind. Porter claimed he had gone to the house to sleep because he knew she had a spare bed, but could not wake Mrs Seaton up with his knocking. He then went around the back of the house and got in through a spare bedroom window that had been left slightly ajar. Justice Cummins said Porter’s most likely intention for breaking into the house was to steal, which he had done before to other family members. "You knew that night there was a bed there and you carefully stepped around it to get to the rest of the premises," he said. Porter then bumped into Mrs Seaton, who did not know tho the intruder was, in a dark part of the house and failed to house and failed to identify himself as the woman’s grandson. "At no point did you identify yourself, at no point did you turn on the light, at no point did you speak to her," the judge said. Porter twice tried to strangle Mrs Seaton with his hands before using two of her scarves as a ligature tied from her throat to the bedhead. Porter, 22, formerly of Pearcedale, pleaded guilty to one count of murder. Justice Cummins said forensic tests on semen found on the body showed Porter had sex with the body after death. "What you did to her after her death was an act of depravity," he said. Porter had no mental illness, although he was an abuser of alcohol and illicit drugs. Justice Cummins praised Deborah Seaton, mother of Porter and daughter of Mrs Seaton, saying she was loving, loyal and intelligent. "What a terrible situation for your family, and her, to have the grandson on trial for the murder of the grandmother," he told Porter. Justice Cummins convicted Porter and sentenced him to serve a minimum term of 15 years. |
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