An Adelaide woman who licked a bloodied knife after stabbing a man in the chest, has been sentenced to life in prison.
Leanne Carol Prak, 42, was found guilty Monday, over the murder of 65-year-old Michael McEvoy at a unit at suburban Holden Hill in May last year.
A Supreme Court jury took less than two hours to make the unanimous judgement, after the prosecution refused a guilty plea for manslaughter, The Advertiser reports.
Adelaide woman Leanne Carol Prak (pictured), 42, who licked a bloodied knife after stabbing a man in the chest, has been sentenced to life in prison
Justice David Peek sentenced Prak, who had showed no emotion to the verdict, to life imprisonment.
‘I have to advise you that, as you probably already know, you have been convicted of murder…’ he said.
‘And there is only one sentence that may be passed in South Australia and that is a sentence of life imprisonment.’
Mr McEvoy’s family members were heard yelling ‘yes’ and seen embracing as the guilty verdict was handed down.
A Supreme Court jury took less than two hours to return a unanimous guilty verdict, with Justice David Peek sentencing Prak (pictured) to the mandatory term of life imprisonment for murder
Prak was found guilty of killing 65-year-old Michael McEvoy at a unit at suburban Holden Hill in May last year
The family of Michael McEvoy (pictured) cheered and embraced when the guilty verdict was handed down
Speaking during the trial last week, prosecutor Chris Edge told the jury that Prak was drunk at the time of the attack and had been in a ‘yelling match’ with Mr McEvoy.
At one stage Prak had then picked up a kitchen knife and lunged towards the victim, stabbing him through the heart.
After he had collapsed, Prak had reportedly ‘licked the blade of that bloodied knife,’ with her saliva found on the blade.
He said the 41-year-old woman went on to stab the victim seven more times in the back, with some of those wounds also penetrating his chest.
He died from a combination of the stab wounds and their effects on his heart and lungs, the court heard.
She had picked up a kitchen knife and lunged towards the victim, stabbing him through the heart, before licking the blade and stabbing him seven more times. Pictured is the apartment complex where the murder took place