A Victorian man who tried to set a house on fire to hide the body of his girlfriend, who he had stabbed 55 times, has been sentenced to 29 years in prison for the murder, which he admitted to a friend was “evil”.
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Key points:
- In the days before she was murdered, Dannyll Goodsell told friends she was scared of her boyfriend Scott Cameron
- Cameron stabbed Ms Goodsell up to 55 times as she sat in her bed
- The sentencing judge said there was no explanation for Cameron’s “shocking” and “callous” crime
Scott Charles Cameron, 37, pleaded guilty to murdering mother-of-two, Dannyll Goodsell, with a kitchen knife in the Ballarat suburb of Mount Pleasant in October 2018.
Cameron must serve 23 years before he is eligible for parole.
“There is no explanation at all for your shocking crime,” Victorian Supreme Court Justice Andrew Tinney said in handing down the sentence.
“Yours was a sustained, outrageously violent attack on a helpless woman.
“I do not believe there is any real evidence of remorse on your part.”
