Paul Cannon driven by 'festering' anger when he murdered ex-wife Lynn Cannon in Perth's north
A Perth court has heard a jealous and abusive ex-husband threatened to kill his former partner in the days before he stabbed her to death in Lansdale last year.The harrowing details were revealed at Paul Anthony Cannon's sentencing hearing, where his former partner's sister called him a coward and described the impact of her murder on their family.
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00:00 Red was Lynne Cannon's favourite colour.
00:04 Her sister's wearing it at the Supreme Court in her memory, after her life was cut short,
00:10 repeatedly stabbed by her former partner in December.
00:13 The court heard Miss Cannon separated from her husband Paul two years before he killed
00:17 her.
00:18 The prosecution saying he never came to terms with the end of the relationship, and his
00:22 actions appeared driven by a festering anger, jealousy and selfishness.
00:28 Cannon went to his ex-wife's home the day before the murder, her 51st birthday, and
00:33 learned she was in a new relationship.
00:35 He then sent an abusive text saying he hoped to be celebrating her painful death soon.
00:42 The following day at Cannon's home, the court heard his landlord witnessed him stabbing
00:46 Miss Cannon seven times in the chest with two kitchen knives, while shouting "I told
00:51 you I was going to kill you."
00:53 The prosecutor says Cannon failed to help her as she lay gasping for breath, and instead
00:58 took a sip of beer and tried to take his own life.
01:02 Police Commissioner Cole Blanche admits Miss Cannon was let down, amid reports it took
01:06 officers more than an hour to respond to triple zero calls on the night she was killed.
01:11 "WA police strive, strive to attend these incidents as fast as possible.
01:18 Sadly, there's about 60,000 domestic violence call-outs every year that police attend."
01:24 Miss Cannon's sister, Jacqueline Darley, told the court her sister suffered verbal
01:28 abuse over her 25-year marriage, and watching her escape the relationship was like watching
01:34 the sun emerge from a dark cloud and shine brightly.
01:39 Prosecutors have asked for the non-parole period to be set to the higher end of what
01:42 is available.
01:43 However, Cannon's defence lawyer has argued that his early guilty plea should be a mitigating
01:47 factor.
01:48 Justice Anthony Derrick has reserved his decision until Friday.
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