Parents and brother of Adelaide woman stabbed by her father handed prison sentences
The parents and brother of an Adelaide woman held down and stabbed in a shopping centre car park have been sentenced to jail for their part in the attack. The 21-year-old victim was stabbed repeatedly by her father for dating a man of a different faith in what a judge has described as the deepest form of betrayal.
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00:00A brutal attack carried out in broad daylight at the Sefton Plaza Shopping Centre in November
00:082021, a 21-year-old woman was held down by two family members and stabbed several times
00:14in the abdomen with a large kitchen knife by her father.
00:18In the Supreme Court today, he was sentenced to 14 years in jail with Justice Sandy MacDonald
00:24labelling his offending as reprehensible.
00:26She displayed a complete disregard for the law and for your daughter's most basic human
00:31rights, she told him.
00:32There is a need for your behaviour to be publicly denounced as completely unacceptable and a
00:37message sent to other members of your and similar cultural backgrounds who might be
00:41so moved to act.
00:43The court heard the victim's Muslim family members disapproved of her relationship with
00:47a man of a different faith and worked to track her down in the lead-up to the attack.
00:53Her eldest brother was sentenced to nine years and her mother was handed a five-year
00:57jail term for their involvement.
01:00To the victim, these were not just criminal offences but the deepest form of betrayal
01:04by almost every one of her close family members.
01:07The victim's other brother, sister and brother-in-law were spared immediate jail terms, instead
01:13all entering into good behaviour bonds.