Samurai sword killer Blake Davis and girlfriend Hannah Quinn engaged

It is a common saying that adversity can make you stronger and that has been the case for convicted samurai sword killer Blake Davis and his girlfriend Hannah Quinn.

It is a common saying that adversity can make you stronger and that has been the case for convicted samurai sword killer Blake Davis and his girlfriend Hannah Quinn.

As former actor Davis, 31, awaits what a Supreme Court judge has told him will inevitably be a jail sentence on Tuesday, the couple recently revealed they became engaged just before their trial began in October ast year.

The court was told that while the shocking moments in August 2018 that cost would-be robber and ice addict Jett McKee his life and saw the couple charged over his death would tear most couples apart, it had cemented their relationship.

Hannah Quinn and Blake Davis leave for the day after attending Darlinghurst Court in Sydney. NSW. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Dylan Coker

This was despite Quinn, 26, telling the court that Davis’ first solicitor had untruthfully told him she had “made a deal with the police”, blamed everything on him and told him to get a new girlfriend.

Mr McKee, 30, tried to rob the couple in their home while armed with a replica pistol, knuckledusters and wearing a balaclava.

Davis and Quinn chased him and Davis hit him with an ornamental samurai sword believing he would kill Quinn.

While the grief and anger from Mr McKee’s family and former fiancee has been palpabe in court, Davis always offered to plead guilty to manslaughter but the Crown forged ahead with a murder charge of which he was acquitted after a lenghty trial and the cost of $600,000 for his defence which his parents sold their house to finance.

He will be sentenced for manslaughter. Quinn faces sentencing for being an accessory after the fact to manslaughter.

ANTY-SOCIAL EPISODE FAILS TO BUG SCO-MO

Touring a coronavirus vaccine testing facility Prime Minister Scott Morrison this week gave “antibodies” a whole new meaning when a critter crawled onto his face mid-press conference.

The PM visited the Therapeutic Goods Administration building in Canberra to witness first hand the process for quality testing the AstraZeneca and Pfizer jabs, and to thank scientists on Wednesday before fronting the media to take questions.

Scott Morrison as saved from a critter by a quick thinking journalist. Picture: Supplied

Scott Morrison as saved from a critter by a quick thinking journalist. Picture: Supplied

Things took an unexpected turn when journalists spotted a large ant — feared to be of the stinging variety — crawling all over the PM as he spoke.

After more than 10 minutes of the six-legged black and red insect wandering up and down his jacket, over both arms, down his back and around the collar, it eventually crawled onto his face.

A quick-thinking journalist on the scene quietly motioned to Morrison to swipe the ant away before it had a chance to bite him.

DOUBLE DUTY FOR MPS HITS A COUNCIL CUT-OFF

Four state politicians are about to lose their jobs — not their job as MPs, but their positions on their respective local councils.

The COVID pandemic has inadvertently led to three Liberals and one Labor MP getting an extra year on their councils, but all four will lose their second gig by March 23.

Hawkesbury’s Robyn Preston, Camden’s Peter Sidgreaves, Goulburn’s Wendy Tuckerman, and Coogee’s Marjorie O’Neill all currently serve as councillors after being elected as state MPs in 2019.

Robyn Preston. Picture: Mark Scott / AAP

Peter Sidgreaves. Picture: Robert Pozo / APP

But due to a law passed almost a decade ago specifically designed to boot Lord Mayor Clover Moore from state parliament, MPs are prevented from remaining on council long-term. Councillors who are elected as state MPs are allowed to serve out their term on local council, but only if that term lasts less than two years.

Because the local government elections slated for 2020 were delayed by 12 months, the two year deadline for the four MPs moonlighting as councillors will run out on March 23.

It means all four MPs have been able to serve an extra year on council — and take home their respective council pay — but their positions will be declared vacant on March 23 before the September election.

The Office of Local Government advised that MPs are not required to officially resign from their positions, but all four MPs told Confidential they have given notice that they will quit before they are automatically expunged from their councils.

No by-elections will be triggered by the resignations.

TV FILM CREWS DISTURB A DOVER HEIGHTS LOCAL

It seems our spies got a bit confused with the sighting of John Ibrahim during the search for Melissa Caddick.

A number of TV crews decided the best vantage point to film the water police and their divers in the futile attempt to find the rest of the missing conwoman was at the bottom of a Dover Heights street.

It just happens to be the same street where Ibrahim has his famous party house, which is streets away from where Caddick lived.

“Of all the clifftops you guys picked this one,’’ he apparently said to one reporter as he pulled up in his driveway.