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<\/p>\nA New Zealand man who allegedly stabbed his partner and their baby daughter to death suffers from a mental disorder, a court has been told.<\/p>\n
Blake Matthew Seers, 38, allegedly killed his fianc\u00e9e Kate Paterson and the couple’s 11-month-old daughter April at their home in Logan on Thursday. <\/p>\n
The accused is from New Zealand. <\/p>\n
The tragedy was discovered after Seers was struck by a car not far from the grisly crime scene, 30km south of Brisbane.<\/p>\n
Police were trying to contact his next of kin when officers discovered the bodies of his fianc\u00e9e and baby girl in the family’s home.<\/p>\n
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Both died from critical injuries from an edged weapon, police said at the time.<\/p>\n
Witnesses raised the alarm after seeing a man covered in blood running along a footpath before he was hit by a black utility about 300m from the family home.<\/p>\n
A trail of blood was marked along the footpath, leading from the house in the hours after the killings.<\/p>\n
Seers remains in hospital and did not appear as two charges of murder were mentioned in Brisbane Magistrates Court before being remanded to the Beenleigh court on March 25.<\/p>\n
Defence lawyer Nicholas Andrews said Seers had been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and would need medical support in custody.<\/p>\n
The disorder is a chronic mental health condition combining schizophrenia symptoms, including hallucinations and delusions, with episodes of depression and mania, according to Queensland Health.<\/p>\n
Outside the court, Andrews said it was a sensitive matter.<\/p>\n
“Our thoughts are with those families and people affected by this tragedy,” he said.<\/p>\n
“But at times like this, I just need to remind myself that there is a job to do.<\/p>\n
“There are mental considerations here and we will be ensuring that those are raised through the appropriate legal channels.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New Zealand man who allegedly stabbed his partner and their baby daughter to death suffers from a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-334944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}