AAP General News (Australia)
08-20-2009
NSW: Man who fatally stabbed pregnant teen unfit for trial
A Sydney judge has likened the violent stabbing death of a pregnant teenager .. to
her having died in a natural disaster.
In deciding her attacker was mentally unfit to stand trial .. NSW Supreme Court Justice
IAN HARRISON said she was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
30-year-old CRAIG JAMES GRANT had been staying at the same southwestern Sydney guesthouse
as the 17-year-old and her 24-year-old partner ANDREW O'GRADY .. when he attacked them
in July 2007.
He woke the couple with a loud knock at their door and started brandishing a knife.
When the teen attempted to escape .. GRANT stabbed her in the chest before turning
the knife on Mr O'GRADY.
He suffered minor wounds during the struggle .. but the teen died.
Justice HARRISON today found GRANT was unfit to stand trial .. and ordered he be found
not guilty of a murder and attempted murder by reasons of mental illness.
He said the woman's death had been an unavoidable tragedy.
AAP RTV jsj/evt/wf
KEYWORD: GRANT (SYDNEY)
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