GUILTY Australia - Fiona Warzywoda, 33, fatally stabbed, Sunshine, Vic, 16 April 2014

McDermott's lawyer said it was his client's first time in custody and he'd suffered an injury to his hand, which required further treatment.

The court granted permission for McDermott and Ms Warzywoda to be identified publicly despite being the parties to a family violence intervention order, but McDermott's image was suppressed as police still needed to speak to eye witnesses.

McDermott was remanded in custody and ordered to reappear in August.

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Organisers of Tuesday's vigil have encouraged mourners to bring candles and to knit or crochet red hearts in memory of the ''brave woman who died trying to make a safe life for her and her children''.
''Dropping off flowers wasn't enough,'' organiser Sophie Dutertre said. ''As someone who lives in the west and feels a strong attachment to this community, I do not want the death of this woman to be just a news item for a day, and to disappear from our consciousness.

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Crown prosecutor Brendan Kissane, QC, in his opening address to the jury, said Mr McDermott and Ms Warzywoda had been together for 18 years and had had four children but their relationship ended in February 2014...

The CCTV footage showed Mr McDermott and his son having a coffee near where Ms Warzywoda had parked her car before he stood up and walked towards her.

There was a confrontation and Ms Warzywoda was stabbed six times – three times in the chest, once in under the chin, once in the shoulder and once to the head... The entire incident took less than a minute.

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The murder trial of a man accused of the brutal daylight slaying of his ex-partner has been aborted after their daughter broke down while giving evidence...

Two of the couple’s daughters were to give evidence against their dad, claiming he had warned them that he was going to kill Ms Warzywoda... But after starting to give her evidence, the first of the daughters to testify was deemed unfit to continue...

Discharging the jury, Justice Forrest said it was inappropriate for the trial to continue because Mr McDermott’s lawyers hadn’t had the opportunity to cross examine the girl...

It is expected the trial will now go ahead after Easter next year.

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At the trial’s opening, the jury heard Mr McDermott told the eldest of the couple’s children he would kill her mother. The alleged warning came about a month after the couple had split, and just weeks before Ms Warzywoda was killed...

But it was a zombie in a video game that Mr McDermott wanted dead, his barrister John Desmond claimed...

Manuela Galvao told the court two of the alleged killer’s children — aged 10 and 8 — mentioned the threat when interviewed. “He said he was going to kill mum with the pocket knife in the car,’’ one child allegedly told her.

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THE son of killer Craig McDermott has recalled his step sister trying to jump out of his father’s moving vehicle during a ride she claimed he threatened to kill her mother.

But the man, who was 17 at the time and cannot be named, told the Supreme Court he did not know why.

During recorded evidence played to the jury last week, the 11-year-old told police she attempted to jump out of her father’s car after he threatened to kill her mother with a pocket knife.

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Craig McDermott, who subjected his former partner to years of family violence, has been sentenced to 25 years in jail for her murder.

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