On Tuesday the WA Supreme Court heard Jingle stabbed the 32-year-old 14 times and strangled her with a belt.<\/p>\n
Ms Murray’s aunt tried to intervene but Jingle was too big, and she sought help from men he had been drinking with.<\/p>\n
Justice Michael Gething described the attack as “impulsive and unsophisticated”, saying Jingle had a “high level of anger”.<\/p>\n
The court heard Jingle had been drinking heavily and using methylamphetamine, and that Ms Murray was physically smaller and vulnerable.<\/p>\n
Jingle and Ms Murray had been in an on-again, off-again relationship for 10 years, marked by “distrust and conflict”, the court heard.<\/p>\n
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The woman died in the West Australian town of Fitzroy Crossing in December 2024. (ABC Kimberley: Andrew Seabourne)<\/p>\n
Jingle had committed violence against her before and served terms of imprisonment for some offences.<\/p>\n
Justice Gething said the case against Jingle, who was 35 at the time of the killing, was strong.<\/p>\n
He had pleaded guilty to murder.<\/p>\n
His minimum sentence of 19 years was backdated to December 2024.<\/p>\n
‘Loving, kind and respectful’<\/p>\n
Speaking outside court, Ms Murray’s brother, Gavin Smith, said the family was happy with the sentence, but were still hurting.<\/p>\n
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The victim’s brother, Gavin Smith, travelled to Perth for the sentencing. (ABC News: David Weber)<\/p>\n
He said he wanted people to remember his sister as a loving person.<\/p>\n
“Loving, kind and respectful person, happy-go-lucky lady, my little sister,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I’m hoping we don’t experience this kind of behaviour in the Kimberley anymore, with violence and all this stuff happening on a regular basis.”<\/p>\n
Mr Smith said he believed something could’ve been done before, in relation to Jingle’s “abusive behaviours”.<\/p>\n
Ms Murray was the mother of three children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who murdered his partner in Western Australia’s north after subjecting her to years of physical abuse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,39043,282562,282563,44,282561,72657],"class_list":["post-576055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-domestic-violence","tag-fitzroy-crossing-murder","tag-kimberley-murder","tag-news","tag-samuel-jingle","tag-wa-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576055","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=576055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}