Lynda Greenwood had intellectual red dwelling keys so she would per chance maybe secure them snappy to secure inner in case her violent ex-partner was ready to ambush her.
But they had been no succor correct after midnight on October 20, 2020, when Jason Lloyd bludgeoned and stabbed her to loss of life as she walked to her front door.
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Within the NSW Supreme Court docket on Friday, Justice Geoffrey Bellew jailed him for 25 years and 6 months, with a non-parole length of 19 years and one month.
The 41-twelve months-inclined had pleaded guilty to murdering his 39-twelve months-inclined on-off partner outside her townhouse at Como in Sydney’s south.
He struck Greenwood many instances with a baseball bat and outmoded a knife to inflict just a few stab wounds sooner than walking away.
Lloyd was then captured on CCTV photos in a conclude-by front yard washing the bat at a tap sooner than striking it into his win, walking down about a streets and calling a taxi.
“The culprit’s assault was inhumane, and was characterised by a level of brutality and ferocity which satisfies me beyond reasonable doubt that in performing as he did, he intended to assassinate Ms Greenwood,” the accumulate acknowledged.
“Ms Greenwood’s screaming, which was sufficiently loud to wake the neighbours, and the defence-kind accidents that had been identified one day of the autopsy examination, present a stressful image of the absolute fear with which Greenwood will should always had been gripped in the final moments of her lifestyles.”
Lynda Greenwood was chanced on dull in her driveway. Credit: 7NEWSAt the time Lloyd was the discipline of an apprehended home violence present and in the months sooner than had sent texts threatening to assassinate her, any man she was seeing or any police officer summonsed to succor.
They integrated pronouncing “if I will’t have you ever no one else can”, “I will snap you in half of” and referring to having “a pleasing intelligent knife”.
She once chanced on him hiding in her room.
On another event when she was with him at a pub, she approached a security guard with a expose pronouncing she was stupefied and asking him to secretly call police.
Within the lead-up to the assassinate when she refused to perceive him all another time, he bombarded her with texts whereas she acknowledged: “How dare you thunder to me the manner that you just would be in a position to have gotten, Jason.
“I’ve acknowledged it sooner than n I’ll issue it all another time. There might per chance be not any longer such a thing as a future. I wont be with a violent man.”
The accumulate acknowledged it was evident Greenwood was in fear of Lloyd.
She determined to install CCTV cameras at her dwelling and her series of intellectual red dwelling keys was “eerily prescient”.
“The communications which handed between the culprit and Greenwood judge a relationship defined by the culprit’s threatening, jealous, abusive and manipulative behaviour,” the accumulate acknowledged.
The ADVO had been made to be conscious certain her security.
“It was no longer to be belief to be some empty rhetorical flourish, pronounced by a functionary in the performance of some rote administrative job.”
His felony historical previous integrated contravening an ADVO in opposition to a ancient partner, stalking and intimidating an particular person that was giving evidence in opposition to Lloyd in felony court docket cases, and assaulting Greenwood.
Lloyd’s guilty plea, which entitled him to a 25 per cent slice rate, was the one real evidence of any remorse.
“There might per chance be not any longer such a thing as a evidence that the culprit has ever surely expressed any remorse to any individual for his offending.”
The accumulate took a “very guarded look” about his possibilities of rehabilitation and the probability of his reoffending, noting they relied on him satisfactorily addressing his propensity for violence and the disorders connected to it.
He referred to the sufferer impression statements of Greenwood’s father, and her brother which was offered on behalf of their mom.
They are plagued by strategies of her final moments and their lives had been shattered by her assassinate.
In case you or any individual you know is impacted by sexual assault, home or family violence, call 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732 or articulate over with 1800RESPECT.org.au.
In an emergency, call 000.
Advice and counselling for men angry about their use of family violence: Men’s Referral Provider, 1300 766 491.