An Australian podcaster who murdered his Kiwi girlfriend in a frenzied attack after an argument over a rent inspection will spend at least 18 years behind bars.<\/p>\n
Tobias Marcus Nuttall, 33, admitted fatally stabbing Alisha Lauren Hendren-Krippner, 30, nine times at her Perth home on August 2025.<\/p>\n
He was sentenced in the Western Australian Supreme Court on Thursday to life in prison, with parole eligible after 18 years.<\/p>\n
“You attacked Alisha in a vicious and completely uncontrolled manner,” Justice Amanda Forrester said.<\/p>\n
“You not only took Alisha’s life … but you have been responsible for shattering the lives of countless others.<\/p>\n
“Her family will never be able to recover from the violent manner in which she was taken.”<\/p>\n
Hendren-Krippner died in hospital after suffering deep penetrating stab wounds to her neck and body, and other injuries to her head and arms.<\/p>\n
Her father Calvin Krippner said his daughter had a beautiful laugh and she would light the room when she entered.<\/p>\n
“She had so much to give,” he said in his victim impact statement read to the court.<\/p>\n
“Part of me died that day, too. A father should never have to bury his child.<\/p>\n
“Alisha was my daughter, my pride and my joy.”<\/p>\n
Hendren-Krippner’s mother, Anita Krippner, said her family was trapped in a nightmare.<\/p>\n
“There are moments when it does not feel real,” she said.<\/p>\n
“The sadness is overwhelming.”<\/p>\n
Nuttall, who has a philosophy degree, was found with blood-covered hands at the scene and a 25cm dagger after he called triple zero.<\/p>\n
The former service station attendant, who had been kicked out of his mother’s home due to his drug use, claimed Hendren-Krippner initiated the altercation, picking up the knife during the argument about the state of her home.<\/p>\n
He asserted Hendren-Krippner hit him, and he flew into a rage and tackled her, later admitting to first responders he had killed her.<\/p>\n
Justice Forrester said she was unable to determine exactly what happened at the home.<\/p>\n
The court heard the attack happened soon after the pair had returned to Perth from a trip to Sydney, where they had used illicit drugs and argued as their relationship unravelled.<\/p>\n
“I’m in a fairly evil situation,” Nuttall said in a text message to his father before he murdered his lover.<\/p>\n
“What should have been divine was hell.”<\/p>\n
Nuttall was later found to have methamphetamine in his system, with the court hearing he was likely coming down from the effects of the drug when the attack happened.<\/p>\n
His lawyer Simon Watters said Nuttall was genuinely remorseful and felt vile over the incident.<\/p>\n
Justice Forrester rejected this, saying Nuttall had sought to intellectualise his actions and had not fully taken responsibility for them.<\/p>\n
Nuttall was the co-host of a news review podcast called WakingWorld before his arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Australian podcaster who murdered his Kiwi girlfriend in a frenzied attack after an argument over a rent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494666,"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-494665","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\/494665","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=494665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}