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CUSTODY ORDER
Aliens
told me
to kill
BRISBANE: A Brisbane judge
yesterday ordered family
members of four sisters
at the centre of an international custody dispute to
attend court tomorrow to
answer questions under
oath about where the girls
are hiding.
CASE ‘A TRY-ON’
CANBERRA:
Opposition
Leader Tony Abbott says a
union leader’s defamation
case against him is a ‘‘blatant
political try-on’’.
John Setka, the assistant
secretary of the Victorian
branch of the CFMEU, is
suing Mr Abbott for calling
him a thug and accusing
him of intimidation and extortion during a nationallytelevised address.
By MARGARET SCHEIKOWSKI
$33M SETTLEMENT
MELBOURNE: The victims
of a Black Saturday bushfire
in north-eastern Victoria
have won a compensation
settlement worth almost
$33 million.
VIDEO LEAK PROBE
CANBERRA: The Australian
Federal Police say they will
investigate the leaking of
damaging video footage of
former prime minister Kevin
Rudd swearing.
GIRLS, 12, PIMPED
SYDNEY: A Sydney woman
charged with prostituting
girls as young as 12 allegedly
accepted as little as $10
from some male customers,
court documents allege.
The ugly eviction saw a total of 31 people arrested
Picture: NATHAN RICHTER
Tent protest mars ceremony
BRISBANE: An Aboriginal
rights protest directed at
Queensland’s new Premier
Campbell Newman has marred the ceremonial opening
of Parliament and harked
back to the state’s days of
deep division.
Around 200 police sur-
rounded Musgrave Park in
South Brisbane yesterday to
remove tent embassy protesters who had refused to
make way for this weekend’s
annual Greek festival.
The ugly eviction, which
saw 31 people arrested, coincided with the official
opening of Parliament.
About 50 protesters marched
to Parliament House to demand a meeting with Mr
Newman about what they argued was an excessive show
of force.
But the Premier did not
meet the group.
SYDNEY: A prisoner killed
his cellmate in response to
hallucinatory instructions
from aliens to sacrifice someone in order to go to paradise, a judge has found.
Mohamed Aliwijaya was
in jail on remand for stabbing a friend in an unsuccessful attempt to obey the
instructions, Justice Lucy
McCallum said in the NSW
Supreme Court yesterday.
She conducted a judgealone trial of Aliwijaya, 20,
who was charged with murdering Robson Pham in April
2010 in a two-man cell at the
Metropolitan Reception and
Remand Centre in Sydney’s
Silverwater jail.
She found Aliwijaya not
guilty on the grounds of mental illness, accepting evidence from two psychiatrists
that he suffered from a
treatment-resistant schizophrenic illness.
Aliwijaya told police he
stomped on his cellmate,
tried to choke him, and kicked him a number of times as
he tried to crawl away.
The cause of death was
fatal pressure to the neck.
Aliwijaya told psychiatrists that about two years
before the killing, he began
hearing alien voices telling
him he would be relieved
from pain and misery if he
killed someone.
Initially he did not believe
the voices, but in March 2010
he took a train to Broken Hill
to go ‘‘UFO hunting’’.
Justice McCallum said: ‘‘A
series of perceptions (which I
am satisfied were hallucinations) persuaded him as to
the authenticity of the voices
he was hearing.’’
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