Australia, June 2 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 2:

1. The offender Tyrone Thompson, born in 1999, is before the court for sentence for one count of murder contrary to s 18(1)(a) of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) (the Crimes Act) for which the maximum penalty is life imprisonment and for which there is a standard non-parole period of 20 years. The offender is also to be sentenced for contravening a prohibition or restriction in an Apprehended Domestic Violence Order ("ADVO") contrary to s 14(1) of the Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Act 2007 (NSW) which is contained on a s 166 certificate, and for which the maximum penalty is 2 years imprisonment or 50 penalty units, or both.

2. Mr Thompson pleaded guilty to the murder charge on 1 April 2025.

3. This sentence concerns the brutal stabbing of the offender's former domestic partner.

4. I now turn to summarise the agreed facts, signed by the Crown and the offender. I note that I am grateful to Mr Queenan and Ms Hodgeman, who appeared for the Crown and Mr Carroll, who appeared on behalf of the offender, for the collaborative and efficient manner in which they conducted the proceedings.

Agreed Facts

5. Between 10:48pm and 10:51pm on 25 March 2022, Tyrone Thompson stabbed Mackenzie Anderson ("the deceased") at least 78 times with two kitchen knives.

6. The Crown cannot disprove the following, and agrees that it is open to me to make the following findings on the balance of probabilities, which I do:-

1) the deceased had hold of a knife whilst she and the offender argued;

2) the offender attempted to disarm the deceased and, in that process, grabbed the blade of the knife which caused wounds to his hand; and

3) after disarming the deceased, the offender commenced stabbing the deceased.

7. I find that the offender had an intent to kill the deceased when he first stabbed her.

Background

8. The deceased was born in 2000. She had one child, a son OE, who was born in 2020. He was almost 2 years of age at the time of the offence. At the time of the offence, the deceased resided at a unit in the Newcastle area with her son.

9. The deceased and the offender started dating in late 2019. From then, the pair had an on and off domestic relationship until 24 October 2021. Their relationship was marred by domestic violence. The offender pleaded guilty to assaulting and intimidating the deceased and destroying her property on 24 October 2021, for which he was sentenced to imprisonment for 9 months with a non-parole period of 4 months and 2 weeks. The non-parole period expired on 9 March 2022.

10. In November/December 2021, the deceased commenced a relationship with Lochie Boreham, which continued until March 2022.

*Rest of the document can be viewed at: (https://www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/1968e08b3155b7201777601f)

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