Man claims he was mentally ill when pregnant girlfriend stabbed to death, court told


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A man accused of fatally bashing and stabbing his pregnant partner at their home in Sydney’s west does not deny he caused her death but says he was “mentally ill” at the time, a court has heard.


Joshua Scott Homann allegedly stabbed 37-year-old Kirralee Paepaerei, his de facto partner of two years, almost 50 times in the neck and chest late on September 21, 2015, in the bedroom of the Mount Druitt home they shared.


Kirralee Paepaerei was pregnant when she was stabbed to death in September 2015.

Kirralee Paepaerei was pregnant when she was stabbed to death in September 2015.


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He then fled their two-storey townhouse by jumping out of a window and drove to the nearby police station, where he claimed he had been attacked during a home invasion.


Two young relatives of Ms Paepaerei, who had been in the home and heard the sound of glass smashing, went upstairs and called triple zero after they found the body of the mother-of-four.


At the opening of Mr Homann’s murder trial on Wednesday, Crown prosecutor Sean Hughes said a heavily breathing and stuttering Mr Homann walked into Mount Druitt police station six minutes after fleeing the house, wearing no shirt and no shoes.


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