A murderer has left court in an ambulance after being convicted of the brutal killing of the woman who rejected a long-term relationship with him.<\/p>\n
Paul Jason Sultana was found guilty of the January 2023 strangling murder of mother-of-two Dayna Isaac in the NSW Supreme Court on Friday.<\/p>\n
But rather than leaving in a prison truck, he was rushed out of court on a stretcher tended by paramedics.<\/p>\n
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By continuing you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sultana stabbed himself in the left arm with a sharp implement after hearing Justice Peter Garling\u2019s verdict in the King Street courthouse.<\/p>\n The 35-year-old was tended to by sheriff\u2019s officers and court staff while an ambulance was called.<\/p>\n He sobbed loudly and had a bloodied left arm as he was wheeled out of court by paramedics.<\/p>\n The incident played out in front of Ms Isaac\u2019s family, including her father Garry English.<\/p>\n He told reporters outside court that Sultana\u2019s guilty verdict was a good outcome for his \u201cprincess\u201d.<\/p>\n Justice Garling found Ms Issac\u2019s murder followed a brief relationship between the two friends.<\/p>\n The relationship was \u201cunsettled\u201d and involved a jealous Sultana being unable to accept a relationship of the kind Ms Isaac desired.<\/p>\n The trial heard evidence from Sultana\u2019s mother, Janet Tsiliris, who was called by her son in the aftermath of the murder.<\/p>\n The killer later picked up his mother in Ms Isaac\u2019s car and took her to the victim\u2019s apartment in the western Sydney suburb of Penrith, where the murder occurred.<\/p>\n He repeatedly told her \u201cit\u2019s bad\u201d, Ms Tsiliris\u2019 police statement said.<\/p>\n \u201cI walked in the front door and saw blood in the entry way near the lounge room on the floor,\u201d Sultana\u2019s mother told investigators.<\/p>\n After seeing Ms Isaac with blood on her face, Ms Tsiliris ran out of the unit yelling \u201cI\u2019m gone, I\u2019m out of here.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr English gave evidence outlining conversations he had with Sultana, including one in which he said his daughter was not interested in pursuing a romantic relationship with her eventual killer.<\/p>\n \u201cI said to him \u2018Paul, Dayna likes you as a friend and nothing more\u2019,\u201d Mr English said in his statement.<\/p>\n \u201cHe got in my face and told me that I have to tell Dayna that he was good for her.\u201d<\/p>\n Sultana argued an unknown third party killed Ms Issac while he was sound asleep in her unit.<\/p>\n He is expected to face sentencing before the end of the year.<\/p>\n 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732)<\/p>\n Men\u2019s Referral Service 1300 766 491<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A murderer has left court in an ambulance after being convicted of the brutal killing of the woman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,43,44,2733,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-169868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-nsw","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}