A 35-year-old woman has been charged with assaulting a fellow prisoner in an alleged early-morning New Year’s Day ‘hot water’ attack.
The woman, who hasn’t been named by police, allegedly poured boiling water from a kettle over 43-year-old ‘thrill killer’ Trudi Lenon, who is waiting to be sentenced for the murder of autistic boy Aaron Pajich-Sweetman.
According to Perth Now the alleged attack occurred as Lenon waited in an early-morning queue on January one – and left her in hospital with serious burns to 30 percent of her body.
A woman has been charged after allegedly poured boiling water from a kettle over 43-year-old ‘thrill killer’ Trudi Lenon, pictured
Trudi Lenon is waiting to be sentenced for the murder of autistic boy Aaron Pajich-Sweetman, pictured
Another prisoner, 47, was also injured in the alleged attack.
Midland detectives have charged the woman with multiple counts of omission causing bodily harm or danger over the alleged attack.
Lenon was due to be sentenced for the 17-year-old boy’s murder next month, alongside her former housemate and partner in crime Jemma Lilley.
The boy’s body was found in the backyard of the Orelia house which Lenon and Lilley shared in July 2016.
Lenon insisted that she was only an accessory in the murder of Mr Pajich, who had been described as having high functioning autism, claiming Lilley was the real killer.
Lilley’s motive for murder was reportedly that it was her ‘life’s ambition’ to kill someone by the time she was aged 25, a West Australian Supreme Court jury was told on in October.
Lilley was reportedly so ‘full of herself and euphoric’ after committing the murder, that she could not help boasting about killing someone to one of her colleagues.
Midland detectives have charged the woman with multiple counts of omission causing bodily harm or danger over the alleged attack on Lenon – which allegedly left her with burns to 30 percent of her body
Jemma Lilley, pictured, was Lenon’s housemate at the time of the murder and is the co-accused
Lenon insisted that she was only an accessory in the murder of Mr Pajich, who had been described as having high functioning autism, claiming Lilley was the real killer
She also left incriminating voice messages to her ‘obsequious and sycophantic’ fellow murderer Lenon, talking about how excited she was experiencing things ‘she had not felt before’.
Evidence of Lilley and Lenon’s guilt could be found in a series of phone messages, where they were discussing killing someone while referring to each other by their bizarre names SOS and Corvina.
SOS was the name of a serial killer in a book Lilley had written while Corvina was the name Lenon used as a submissive participant in the bondage scene.
Lenon is in a stable condition at Fiona Stanley Hospital in Perth’s south.
The alleged hot water attacker will face court on February 2.
Lenon was due to be sentenced for the 17-year-old boy’s murder next month, alongside her former housemate and partner in crime Jemma Lilley