Woman kills boyfriend on Xmas Day, texts friend to see if he'd like to help eat body

m@cc@

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Woman kills boyfriend on Xmas Day, texts friend to see if he'd like to help eat body

MOMENTS after she stabbed her boyfriend to death on Christmas Day, a NSW Central Coast woman sent a text message telling another man she was going to eat the body because "I think he tastes good".
In the NSW Supreme Court today, Tamie Melehan admitted to killing her boyfriend, but pleaded not guilty to murder by reason of mental illness.
David Vaughan, 30, suffered 16 stab wounds to his neck, six to his chest and four to his abdomen during the frenzied knife attack by his girlfriend of three months at her apartment on December 25, 2008.

An autopsy revealed his jugular veins had been slashed on both sides of his neck and he died from those "rapidly fatal" injuries. As her murder trial was about to begin, Melehan, 29, admitted to the actions which caused Mr Vaughan's death, but pleaded not guilty for reasons of mental illness.
Melehan has a long history of mental illness and was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2002, the court heard.

Prosecutor Michael O'Brien said that at the time Mr Vaughan was killed, Melehan sent another man a series of text messages telling him she missed him and inviting him over to feast on her boyfriend's "delicate meat".

"Oi, can I eat this fella?" she said. "I think he tastes good ... there's enough to go around if you want to join in - no joke, delicate meat ...
"Dear me, need help to get rid of the body."
A little later she phoned her mother saying: "Can you come over and get him before I slit his throat?"
Melehan's mother, Loretta Watts, arrived at her daughter's home to find Mr Vaughan dead on the floor of the shower with blood gurgling out of a slash wound in his neck.

Mr O'Brien told Justice Monika Schmidt there was ample psychiatric evidence to support claims that Melehan was suffering "an acute exacerbation of her chronic mental illness" and was acting in "a delusional way" at the time of the attack.

"The Crown submits on the evidence that is before your honour, your honour would make a finding that the accused is not guilty of the offence within the grounds of mental illness," he said.
Justice Schmidt adjourned proceedings and is expected to give her decision soon.

Just have images of Harry Enfield in drag shouting "Oi, can I eat this fella?" Being able to say 'need to get rid of the body' makes me wonder about whether she really was out of her mind.

Overheal

m@cc@ wrote: »

Just have images of Harry Enfield in drag shouting "Oi, can I eat this fella?" Being able to say 'need to get rid of the body' makes me wonder about whether she really was out of her mind.

What, to be out of your mind you need to speak in tongue?

m@cc@

Overheal wrote: »

What, to be out of your mind you need to speak in tongue?

No, I just meant she was obviously lucid and aware enough to think about disposing of the body.

Overheal

m@cc@ wrote: »

No, I just meant she was obviously lucid and aware enough to think about disposing of the body.

My Aunt was Lucid enough to drive a car but that didnt make her any less deranged during the episode she had where she thought she was receiving communications from her dead father about time travel.

Youre not a psychologist; Im not a psychologist.

OutlawPete

m@cc@ wrote: »

a NSW Central Coast woman sent a text message.

I was reading this as: "a Not Suitable for Work Central Coast Woman sent a text message.."

I was like, why the f*** is she not suitable for work??

Guess it's a sign I'm online too fucking much, I'll be saying 'LOL' on the phone next

m@cc@

Overheal wrote: »

Youre not a psychologist; Im not a psychologist.

Agreed, but it doesn't take away from the fact that it still makes me wonder if she was deranged.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Overheal wrote: »

My Aunt was Lucid enough to drive a car but that didnt make her any less deranged during the episode she had where she thought she was receiving communications from her dead father about time travel.

Youre not a psychologist; Im not a psychologist.

You don't need to be a psychologist to come up with a theory either... The fact that she knew that she had to get rid of the body would suggest that she knew what she done was wrong and she needed help to get rid of the body. No matter how crazy of a spin she put on it.

Fracking lunatics. You wonder is your OH a lunatic. Is she going to cut my head off tonight? Then people ask me, "why don't you sleep at night". I wait for her to go to work before I go to bed :P

high heels

Ya but schizophrenia means that you change person almost having too lifes.. you can have a crazy side and a normal side..

Suprised she wants to go down for it tho.. Maybe she thinks prison is better than a mental hospital.. Maybe she spent alot of time in one before and hates then..

Fratton Fred

the planet is about to suffer a severe food shortage due to overcrowding.

surely this is the way forward?

kumate_champ07

m@cc@ wrote: »

Agreed, but it doesn't take away from the fact that it still makes me wonder if she was deranged.

because murdering and inviting a guest to eat your boyfriend is not deranged?

sam34

high heels wrote: »

Ya but schizophrenia means that you change person almost having too lifes.. you can have a crazy side and a normal side..

emmm, no it doesnt

contrary to popular opinion, schizophrenia does not mean having a split or double personality

R0ot

Eyes bigger than her belly.

Abi

Waste not want not and all that.

Joey the lips

when my o/h tells me to eat her I dont think she means this..... The world has gone mad.

Mitch Connor

OutlawPete wrote: »

I was like, why the f*** is she not suitable for work??

Eh, she stabbed a guy around 30 times and tried to eat him! I wouldn't want her working in my office!!

minidazzler

What's wrong? Soylent Green is people, and we eat that everyday!!!

Incidentally, does anyone else thing she would be phenomenal in the sack? Crazy chicks....I love 'em!

Abi

minidazzler wrote: »

Incidentally, does anyone else thing she would be phenomenal in the sack? Crazy chicks....I love 'em!

Lmao. It's always the crazy chicks... :pac:

Fratton Fred

Mitch Connor wrote: »

Eh, she stabbed a guy around 30 times and tried to eat him! I wouldn't want her working in my office!!

She'd fit in well with nutters and drama queens I work with.

bonerm

I see she's played spoony-knifey before.

opinion guy

m@cc@ wrote: »

No, I just meant she was obviously lucid and aware enough to think about disposing of the body.

m@cc@ wrote: »

Agreed, but it doesn't take away from the fact that it still makes me wonder if she was deranged.

Samara Limited Tannery wrote: »

You don't need to be a psychologist to come up with a theory either... The fact that she knew that she had to get rid of the body would suggest that she knew what she done was wrong and she needed help to get rid of the body. No matter how crazy of a spin she put on it.

Fracking lunatics. You wonder is your OH a lunatic. Is she going to cut my head off tonight? Then people ask me, "why don't you sleep at night". I wait for her to go to work before I go to bed :P

Ok you guys don't get how schizophrenia works. During and exacerbation they can and do have entirely lucid thoughts - its just that they don't flow from lucid thought to lucid thought they way non-schizophrenics would. They suffer from "knights move thinking" - in trying to reason something out one thought does not relate to the next and can be entirely unrelated. So just because they think to get rid of the body, does not mean they are in a normal state of mind. I would thinking texting some bloke to come eat him and calling your mother around to stop you from stabbing him when you already did are probably signs she wasn't really with it - wouldn't you say ?

pickarooney

sam34 wrote: »

emmm, no it doesnt

contrary to popular opinion, schizophrenia does not mean having a split or double personality

That's what i keep telling myself.

bonerm

Unlucky for her that she didn't do it in Ireland. She would have got off with a suspended sentence and slap on the wrist.

m@cc@

I wonder if she went on the cannibal run before being caught. :pac:

ejmaztec

minidazzler wrote: »

Incidentally, does anyone else thing she would be phenomenal in the sack? Crazy chicks....I love 'em!

She might be, but you'd probably end up in a couple of sacks afterwards.

Jesus Wept

Abitar wrote: »

Waste not want not

My Australian Step Grandmother used to say that.
*shudder.

also 'hay is for horses' if you said 'Hey'.
I think she was confused.

Cheap Thrills!

A scizophrenic person can have normal ideas mixed together with delusions. Her desire to get rid of the body would not mean she was not mentally ill.

Darlughda

I wonder what he had gotten her for christmas? Must have been lousy with the presents.

az2wp0sye65487

OutlawPete wrote: »

I was reading this as: "a Not Suitable for Work Central Coast Woman sent a text message.."

I was like, why the f*** is she not suitable for work??

Guess it's a sign I'm online too fucking much, I'll be saying 'LOL' on the phone next

Even though you mistook the OP, I'd still hazard a guess that she's not suitable for work.

Crazy BITCH!

tech77

Overheal wrote: »

Youre not a psychologist; Im not a psychologist.

I'd love if m@cca was a psychologist

sam34

tech77 wrote: »

I'd love if m@cca was a psychologist

i'm a psychiatrist, does that count?!:p

Duggy747

Tsk, tsk, she should've tried to sell the body to the Chinese Take-away down the road...

...at least that's I what did..............whoops!

JackBoo

sam34 wrote: »

i'm a psychiatrist, does that count?!:p

You're not a psychiatrist, you wait outside schools in your car with a bag of sweets.

galwayrush

At least the boyfriend should be well hung and tenderised by now.

Hank_Jones

They like an oul barbeque around christmas down that way don't they?


Get over here, and don't forget the salad and sauces...

Gummy Panda

Duggy747 wrote: »

Tsk, tsk, she should've tried to sell the body to the Chinese Take-away down the road...

...at least that's I what did..............whoops!

I was wondering why the shredded beef was different. I thought it was a new chef.