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Man found guilty of stabbing partner to death in Darwin
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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3/18/2024
A man who stabbed his partner nine times in a park in Darwin's northern suburbs has been found guilty of murder in Darwin's Supreme Court today. Warren Dhamarrandji plead not guilty to murder, arguing the defence of diminished responsibility.
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Four years after this dramatic arrest in Darwin's northern suburbs, the man being placed in
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handcuffs, Warren Damarangi, today found guilty of murder.
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Following an almost two-week trial, the jury took less than two hours to hand down its
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unanimous verdict.
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Agreeing with what Crown Prosecutor Lloyd Babb described as a calculated and premeditated
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attack and a textbook example of domestic violence.
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Damarangi tracked down his partner and stabbed her nine times with a knife in a park on the
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morning of December 1, 2020, a week after she ended the relationship because of continued
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domestic violence.
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Damarangi pleaded not guilty to murder, but guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter,
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claiming the defence of diminished responsibility.
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His lawyer, Philip Bolton, telling the court in closing arguments last Friday that Damarangi
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wasn't violent, saying he was born with a "very significant cognitive impairment"
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and he was a kid in an adult's body who had trouble regulating his emotions.
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Rejecting Damarangi had a significant impairment, prosecutors argued he understood what he was
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doing.
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He disposed of the knife, he changed his shirt, and he actively evaded police detection for
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over an hour.
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That conduct is completely consistent with the accused attempting to get away with a
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pre-planned stabbing.
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Damarangi is facing a minimum mandatory jail term of 20 years.
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Lawyers will reconvene next Monday to deliver sentencing submissions.
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