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A 32-year-old woman has been charged with murder following the discovery of her four-year-old son’s body at their home on Byron Street, Wyong, New South Wales. Police found the boy, exhibiting significant arm injuries, after the mother voluntarily turned herself in, allegedly stating she had committed acts of cannibalism.
Police have seized the woman’s Holden Captiva and other evidence from the crime scene, although they have not confirmed if anything recovered indicated cannibalism. The coroner is scheduled to conduct a post-mortem next week to ascertain the cause of death, as the woman is set to return to court on 1 September.
The woman charged with murder has been denied bail and will return to court on September 1. Supt Chad Gillies described the scene as “extremely confronting,” highlighting that police had prior knowledge of the woman and her son’s domestic situation.
What remains unclear — It is not known whether any evidence recovered at the scene indicated cannibalism.
Questions arise over potential cannibalism in four-year-old boy’s murder
Neither the mum nor the son can be identified for legal reasons (Picture: 9News)
A mum has been charged with murder after the body of a four-year-old boy was found in a home in New South Wales, Australia.
The woman, 32, allegedly told police she had ‘carried out acts of cannibalism’ on her son when turning herself in at 4.40pm yesterday.
Officers later discovered the boy’s body with significant arm injuries while carrying out a welfare check at her home on Bryron Street, Wyong.
The youngster may have been dead for days, broadcaster Nine News reported.
Insiders told The Sydney Morning Herald and the Daily Telegraph that fears of cannibalism came from ‘discussions’ police had with the mum.
The woman, who cannot be identified due to Australian child crime victim laws, drove to the station, which triggered the search of her home.
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Police entered the home after the woman turned up voluntarily at the police station (Picture: TNV)
Her Holden Captiva, along with other evidence, was seized. Police have not said whether anything recovered at the scene suggested cannibalism.
She was charged with a domestic violence-related murder today.
Supt Chad Gillies said at a press conference that the mum and son had a ‘domestic relationship’ and lived together at the unit.
She was known to the force, he added.
‘It was an extremely confronting scene,’ Mr Gillies said.
The coroner will conduct a post-mortem next week to determine the cause of death.
Boy was a ‘little angel’, say locals
Neighbour Harley Chislett said that the boy was a ‘little angel’ who often spent hours playing with his toy car and Staffordshire Bull Terrier puppy.
He told the Daily Telegraph: ‘I can’t believe he’s dead. He was a good kid, a bit of a rug rat at times, like all kids that age.’
‘I loved that kid. Sometimes he would be up running around until 9pm, 10pm. It’s like he was running marathons at times.
‘He had lots of energy. He was adorable.’
Mechanic Glenn Winterbottom, 51, who repaired the mum’s vehicle, said that he had never seen any sign of trouble between the mum and son.
The woman did not appear in court today (Picture: TNV)
The pair had moved into the rental earlier this year, he said, following alleged domestic violence involving her and her ex-partner.
‘The kid was really cute,’ Winterbottom added. ‘He said, “Can you please fix mummy’s car, because she broke it?”‘
The woman was denied bail after failing to appear in court today.
She will return to court on September 1.
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October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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November 23, 2024
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Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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