Jack Mulligan Camperdown murder: Sharee Lorraine Turnbull guilty
When police came to check on 25-year Jack Mulligan, Sharee Turnbull assured officers she was taking care of him. Not long after she plunged a knife into his back more than a dozen times and left him to die in a pool of blood.
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The final hours of Jack Mulligan, a 25-year-old man brutally stabbed to death in a violent, unprovoked attack outside a notorious housing complex, has been revealed with his former companion pleading guilty to murder.
Sharee Lorraine Turnbull, 31, from Gilgandra in country NSW, had spent the day with Mr Mulligan hanging in the streets and smoking bongs at a unit inside Johanna O’Dea Court, known as ‘the complex’, in Camperdown on September 28 last year.
On one occasion the pair were spoken to by police officers concerned for Mr Mulligan’s welfare after he was spotted shirtless with two bleeding knees. Turnbull, his ultimate killer, told the officers not to worry as “I’m looking after him”, the agreed facts reveal.
The pair came to police attention three times across the day, with Mr Mulligan described as having a rocking jaw, unsteady on his feet and slurring words. Turnbull, on the other hand, was viewed by police as sober but presented “bizarre behaviour” such as wearing two sets of pants and jackets at the one time.
The pair socialised with others inside a unit at ‘the complex’, where Turnbull smoked a bong, before the pair went to leave the building about 7.45pm with two other men.
Mr Mulligan, who lived at the building, had gone to collect bike parts from a ground-floor room when he was repeatedly stabbed in the back without warning by Turnbull as the men watched on.
After the brutal attack, which saw more than a dozen stab wounds inflicted on Mr Mulligan, Turnbull hopped on a bicycle and pedalled down Pyrmont Bridge Rd, near Lyons Rd, with her two male pals.
Mulligan stumbled onto a footpath and collapsed in a pool of blood and was pronounced clinically dead about five hours later at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
Five days later the murder weapon, a 35cm knife which contained DNA of Turnbull and Mr Mulligan, was located by police in a black bag inside a hedge bush near the University of Sydney campus.
Turnbull pleaded guilty to the single charge of murder at Central Local Court on Tuesday and will appear before the Supreme Court on October 2 for sentencing.