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The daughter of the beheaded mum speaks out, Killed and butchered, like she was nothing
After a denial of help, a court has heard that a woman from Sydney was violently killed and decapitated by her own daughter's selfish hands.
Kristi Torrisi said she was unforgettable in the St Clair home in July 2019 and would never forgive her sister Jessica Camilleri for the sudden attempt to attack Rita Camilleri.
She told Wednesday's NSW Supreme Court hearing, "killed and butchered as nothing, all due to a fit of rage."
After two forensic psychiatrists told the tribunal she was substantially disabled when she lost control and "saw round" she was found guilty of murder by a jury.
Torrisi described her mother as having a golden heart and always putting others first, including her daughter. Holding back tears
Her sister "had all the assistance she needed" and the court had only heard snippets of the continued attempts her family had made to support her sibling.
"She rejected anything (help). Instead, she decided to pay attention to her actions."
The fan of horror movies had a peculiar fascination with the macabre of re-looking violent films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Her mother claimed her love could shield her from the world, heard the court, although she had previously attacked her aunt, pulled hair out publicly, and made hundreds of menacing calls to aliens.
Mary Hill says that it was a double-edged sword beyond trauma to lose her "baby sister" in her niece's possession.
"Rita was remarkable in her daughter's unconditional love," she said.
"If she could not see what I could see, she was blindsided."
When they were children, she described saving her sister from drowning in the dam of a neighbor.
"But I wasn't able to save her from Jess as hard as I tried."
Her explosive fury was sparked by her mother threatening to contact her in a mental hospital with emergency departments.
After pulling her hair down through the hallway to her kitchen, she took seven knives, some of which she smashed to infuse her mother's head with more than 100 wounds, and another 100 defensive wounds on her body were found.
Later, she went to her neighbor to show her decapitated head that she did not make up the lie, he heard the court.
'Let's go'
Hill said that the mental health system had dropped her family on several occasions.
"There will be a greater number of tragic cases before courts like ours until more resources and funding are allocated to essential mental health services."
Rita Camilleri's sister, Stephanie Cook, spoke about the awful tragedy of the Jessica family's half-life.
Her cousin, she said, dominated her mother and bullied her in her dominant conduct, killing her slowly even before the homicide.
"I knew for a long time she had been deeply disturbed and at the best times she scared me."
To live in fear
Both Cook and Torrisi claimed that they lived in fear that the day Camilleri was released from jail, they were afraid that they would follow them.
The Crown argued that Camilleri was little distressed by her actions and constructed a self-defense tale to strengthen her court position.
This was retired on Wednesday with the observation by Justice Helen Wilson that "she didn't really have any way out of her responsibility for the crime."
Barrister Nathan Steel of Camilleri admitted that she wanted to kill her mother that night, but she was obviously severely disabled and would enjoy a long and intensive care.
She told a counselor that her mother was dead, Steel said, every night now realizing all her fault.
"It didn't hit me first but hit me like a ton of mountain bricks," she said.
In March, she must be convicted.