Katherine Abdallah: Cousin stabbed to death over Mercedes argument
A SYDNEY woman who fatally stabbed her cousin after a violent and prolonged argument over her Mercedes has been found guilty of manslaughter.
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A SYDNEY woman who fatally stabbed her cousin after a violent and prolonged argument over her Mercedes has been found guilty of manslaughter.
Katherine Abdallah, 37, submitted she had acted in self-defence when she killed Suzie Sarkis, 21, at her Brighton-Le-Sands townhouse on February 9, 2013.
However, after almost five days of deliberations, a NSW Supreme Court jury on Monday found Abdallah guilty of manslaughter, before her bail was revoked and the case put over to December 13.
Ms Sarkis had been staying with Abdallah at her Brighton-Le-Sands townhouse when she was killed on February 9, 2013.
On the night before the stabbing, Ms Sarkis took Abdallah’s new Mercedes-Benz coupe and drove it at high speed and was pulled over by police, the prosecutor told the court last month.
Police reported this to Abdallah, before Ms Sarkis again took the car out on the Saturday without her cousin’s permission.
Abdallah became “annoyed and angry” when told of this and “even more so after she found out on Saturday that she had taken it a second time” prosecutor John Bowers said.
“The crown case is that caused ongoing conflict between the two women”.
In the afternoon, witnesses saw them fighting in the street, while CCTV footage — which did not record sound — from inside the townhouse showed them appearing to have a verbal argument before it got physical.