Английская Википедия:Charles Mihayo

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox criminal Charles Amon Mihayo is a Tanzanian man, permanently residing in Australia,[1] who killed his two daughters in Melbourne on 20 April 2014.

Background

Mihayo was born in Tanzania.[2]

He met a woman in China, moved to Australia, and married her. He became a permanent resident of Australia. The two separated in 2011 with divorce occurring a year later.[3]

The murders were committed in Melbourne's north-eastern suburb of Watsonia, at a property on Longmuir Road just near the Greensborough Secondary College. The house in which the girls were murdered belonged to the girls' maternal great-grandmother, Margaret Mills.

Crime

On 19 April 2014, Mihayo sent a text message asking his wife to allow him to see his daughters "one last time."[2] On the following day, which was Easter Sunday,[4] Mihayo bought new clothes for the girls and visited them at the residence of their great-grandmother in Watsonia, Melbourne, Victoria.[2]

He asked his daughters, Savanna and Indianna to wear ballerina dresses and sing "Let It Go" from the 2013 American film Frozen.[5] This was recorded on videotape. He also went to play hide and seek with them.[1] He took them into a bedroom, smothered them with a pillow,[2] and put them back into clothes after bathing them post-mortem. Mihayo confessed to killing the children when police came to arrest him.[6]

Gavin Silbert QC, the chief crown prosecutor, stated that Mihayo was upset since his ex-wife found a new romantic partner. Mihayo pleaded guilty in September 2014.[6] He received a life sentence with a minimum tariff of 31 years.[4]

See also

Cases of filicide attributed to revenge against an ex-spouse:

References

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