Amirah Droudis: Jail time cut for Lindt siege gunman Man Monis’ girlfriend

Days from the anniversary of the Lindt Cafe siege, the girlfriend of gunman Man Monis, who killed his ex-wife, has had her murder sentence cut.

The evil girlfriend of Lindt Cafe siege gunman Man Monis has had her sentence slashed for stabbing his wife to death and dousing her in petrol.

The decision by the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal comes almost on the anniversary of the fatal siege on December 15, 2014.

The court has cut the 44-year jail sentence of Amirah Droudis, 43, from 44 years with a non-parole period of 33 years to a non-parole period of 26 years three months and an additional term of eight years nine months.

The appeal court has ruled her sentence was manifestly excessive.

Amirah Droudis and Man Monis days before she carried out the frenzied stabbing murder of his first wife.

Monis was on bail charged with being an accessory to the murder of his estranged wife, whose name has been suppressed, when he took the hostages at the Lindt Cafe. The siege lasted for 17 hours before the cafe was stormed by police after Monis shot dead cafe manager Tori Johnson.

Hostage barrister Katrina Dawson and Monis both died in the hail of bullets when police stormed the cafe.

There is no evidence Droudis had anything to do with the siege.

When Droudis was sentenced for the murder of the mother of Monis’ two children, the sentencing judge said Monis had exercised a measure of control in his relationship with the applicant beyond mere persuasive powers and she had demonstrated “a preparedness to act, in a variety of extraordinary ways, at his request”.

Man Haron Monis.

Amirah Droudis.

However, he said she was “not naive in her dealings with Monis”, was a “mature woman of sound mind” and “was not young and impressionable”.

The appeal court has found that with the death of Monis, there was nothing to suggest Droudis would reoffend.

They had met when she went to see him as a client of his “spiritual healing” business, in which he had also met his wife and a string of women he had been charged with sexually assaulting.

Droudis converted to Islam and went on to appear in his radical videos as “Sister Amirah”.

Monis and his wife had separated in 2011 and in April 2013, he took out home contents insurance on her Werrington apartment, including cover for water damage.

On April 21, Monis took his children aged eight and five for a custody visit. Droudis let herself into the Werrington unit block using a key given to her by Monis.

She was waiting as his wife walked up to the unit and stabbed her 18 times in the back, chest and arms before dousing her with petrol and setting her on fire.