Kylie Blackwood’s daughters confront mum’s killer in court
Twin sisters who found their mum in a pool of blood in their Pakenham home have told her killer they want him to suffer in jail and questioned how he can call himself a human being.
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Twin girls who found their mother stabbed to death in their home have told her killer he should suffer in jail as they will never be able to erase the horrific images of their “beautiful” mother.
Mia and Holly Blackwood were just 11 years old when they discovered their doting mum, Kylie Blackwood, in a pool of blood at their Pakenham home after school on August 1, 2013.
Parolee Scott Alan Murdoch, 42, has pleaded guilty to her brutal murder.
In a pre-sentence hearing in Victoria’s Supreme Court today, Mia and Holly, now 17, opened up in harrowing victim impact statements about how the loss of their mother would torment them for the rest of their lives.
Holly took the opportunity to be able to speak to her mother’s killer for the first time.
“You have taken away memories,” she said.
“After doing something like that, how could you call yourself a human being?
“I hope you suffer and get what’s coming to you. My mother deserves justice.”
Her sister Mia said the grisly discovery of her slain mum were “images I will never be able to erase”.
“The trauma, the grief will never leave me,” Mia said.
“My mother never deserved this.”
Mia told of how the hours of counselling she had undergone would “never take away the torment”.
Mia said Murdoch had robbed the sisters of having their mother attend their weddings and being able to share the joy of their future children.
“It’s unfair and it’s heartbreaking,” she said.
Holly described the torture of living without her mother, how “nothing will ever be the same” and how she often asks: “Why us?”
“I still have terrible nightmares about what happened to my poor mum,” Holly said.
“My mum was beautiful in every way. I have to live without her for the rest of my life.”
Mrs Blackwood is survived by her daughters, son Chase and husband Peter.
Murdoch also stands to be sentenced over an eerily similar attack on Illona Prohaska, 80, in her Endeavour Hills home three months earlier on May 21, 2013.
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He was initially charged with manslaughter but has pleaded guilty to intentionally causing serious injury to Mrs Prohaska, who miraculously survived the monster hammering a knife into her neck.
She told the court how the attack has “ruined my life”.
Mrs Prohaska said her son, Johnny, would still be alive today if it wasn’t for Murdoch’s actions.
Her son died from stress-related kidney failure in the months after as police zeroed in on him as a suspect.
“I wish he was here to see his name cleared,” Mrs Prohaska said.
“I knew it wasn’t Johnny. I saw the face of the attacker and it was not my son.”
The hearing continues.