Geoffrey Ernest White pleads guilty to Frenchville attempted murder

A mother of two who was stabbed multiple times by her former husband on Father’s Day was shocked at what her attacker said in court.

Geoffrey Ernest White pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court in Rockhampton on June 3, 2025, to the attempted murder of Amy White at their Frenchville home on September 3, 2023.

A mother of two who was stabbed multiple times by her former husband on Father’s Day looked shocked when her attacker finally officially admitted guilt to the crime.

Amy White had bravely been grilled under cross examination six months ago during a committal hearing by her former husband, Geoffrey Ernest White’s, defence team in the Rockhampton Magistrates Court on November 26.

Mr White, 54, stabbed Amy multiple times to her upper chest and neck on September 3, 2023, after she ordered takeaway for dinner and started discussing their finances.

This morning in the Supreme Court in Rockhampton, he pleaded guilty to one count of attempted murder with his sentence adjourned until a later date while a psychiatric report is prepared.

Ms White was sitting in the back of the courtroom, with others there to support her, as he entered the plea.

Her face looked shocked afterwards, and as she left the courtroom, there was a slight smile.

She had sustained cuts to her upper chest and neck from Mr White’s attack on her, but was able to call triple-0 herself before she was rushed to Rockhampton Hospital in a critical condition and underwent “lifesaving surgery”.

Amy Elizabeth White was stabbed multiple times by her former husband.

During the committal hearing in November, it was revealed the pair had separated six months earlier but still remained living together to raise their two sons together.

On the day of the attempted murder, Ms White had gone out for the day to give her sons time alone with their father on Father’s Day.

Mr White had been drinking in the afternoon before the stabbing incident and the court heard evidence from one of their neighbours that he had told them he had been told about Ms White’s new relationship weeks prior and Mr White felt he “could stab her in the throat”.

During the cross examination of Ms White, Defence barrister Julie Marsden asked Ms White what she was doing right before the offender cut her with the knife.

“I was standing at the end of the (kitchen) bench,” Ms White said

“I recall Geoff saying to me ‘why don’t you just f*** off to Paul’s. You’re going to anyway.

Geoffrey White had been drinking in the afternoon before the stabbing.

“He was quite on edge.”

Ms White said because of Mr White’s demeanour, she told him she would “perhaps I will”.

She said she picked up her wallet and as she turned to go get her car keys, Mr White picked out a knife from the knife block and turned around and “plunged the knife into me”.

“It was very fast and very much a blur,” she said.

“He held it as a dagger into me.

“Firmly gripped in his hand with the point of the knife straight at my body.

“Pulled it out and punched it back into my body.”

Ms White said she moved towards another part of the kitchen to try and get away and had turned around doing this.

“I had been stabbed quite a few times by then and I started to feel that my body was going … I was losing my blood pressure,” she said.

“Something switched, something flipped, and I … fight or flight … I’m not sure. I just decided I wasn’t dying on that kitchen floor.”

Ms White said this was when she reached over for the knife Mr White held and they wrestled, resulting in her being cut on her fingers, hands and knee.

She also received a laceration under her chin but she said she did not believe it occurred during the wrestle.

Ms White said she was able to get the knife off Mr White and she had felt his “energy had faltered a bit”.

She said she retrieved her phone, walked out the house and called emergency services.

Ms White said she walked down the bottom of their driveway before she squatted down on the ground due to her injuries.

A single police car was at the scene of the Constantia Crescent home guarding the crime scene were a woman was stabbed on the night of Sunday, September 3.

She kept the knife, plunged in the ground next to her, until police arrived.

The court heard Ms White spent three days in the Intensive Care Unit in hospital after “she was resuscitated with intravenous fluids, blood transfusion as she was found shocked with low blood pressure” and had all of her lacerations cleaned and stitched and tubes inserted for possible pneumothorax (when air leaks into the space between your lung and chest wall).

Mr White has been remanded in custody.