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CODEY HERRMANN; HOW A KILLER WAS BRED

Codey Herrmann’s lawyer still can’t figure out why Herrmann bashed, raped and murdered student Aiia Maasarwe. “There is no explanation I can give you,” he told a judge this week. No? Can’t explain why Herrmann was angry “at life in general” and about how “everyone looked at me and treated me”? Just look back to when he should have been saved. 

Codey Herrmann
Codey Herrmann

Codey Herrmann’s lawyer still can’t figure out why Herrmann bashed, raped and murdered student Aiia Maasarwe.

“There is no explanation I can give you,” he told a Supreme Court judge in Melbourne this week.

No? Can’t explain why Herrmann told police he’d been angry “at life in general” and about how “everyone looked at me and treated me”?

Yet when we hear of his childhood, which of us doesn’t say ‘well, that figures’?

And for me, there’s this further question to the ideologues who rage about the wickedness of removing Aboriginal children from toxic homes, or the nastiness of introducing cashless welfare cards.

(Read the full column here.)

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