Canberra man who stabbed partner to death pleads guilty to murder

ABC NEWS (Australia)

A 72-year-old Canberra man has pleaded guilty to the stabbing murder of his partner in their home in October 2023. Van Thanh Vu was about to go to trial on a not guilty plea by reason of mental impairment.

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00:00Vantan Vu was helped by an interpreter today.

00:07When the charge of murder was read to him, he said,

00:10I plead guilty.

00:12Vu has been in custody since the incident,

00:15after family members called police to the couple's home.

00:19Police and paramedics faced a confronting scene at the house,

00:23with 65-year-old Ti Tui Huang Nguyen

00:26stabbed multiple times on the kitchen floor.

00:29She could not be revived.

00:31Vu was also injured and unresponsive,

00:34but survived after he was revived in hospital.

00:37He was later charged in a court appearance by video link

00:41from his hospital bed.

00:43No motive has ever been revealed.

00:45Indications Vu would plead guilty surfaced yesterday

00:49when his lawyers told a preliminary hearing that was his intention.

00:53The court heard prosecutors are still finalising agreement

00:57on the facts in the case.

00:59And while some psychiatric reports have been received,

01:03more will be needed before Vu is sentenced in October.

01:07both of the knocking said before.

01:09The court of the law,

01:10it was granted to the level of the pump.

01:11For the courts has been classified.

01:13A true memory and a true memory of the law

01:14a strong and a true memory of the law.

01:16A strong and a strong with the law.

01:19And the law has been justified.

01:21The court of the law istechnical,

01:22all the administration's going to be declared.

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