❤️HER NAME IS SANDRA PENIAMINA! ❤️
She armed herself with a knife when he started bashing her. He cut his hand on that knife. Despite the abuse, the horrendous injuries he inflicted on her using a concrete bollard and a knife and the fear she faced in her final minutes, a court decided it was her fault he killed her.
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Her name is Sandra Peniamina. Arona Peniamina murdered Sandra on March 31, 2016, at her home in Kippa-Ring, Queensland. She was only 29.
Some 10 years after her death, Queensland is moving one step closer to shutting down the legal loophole that allows violent men like Sandra’s partner to get away with murder.
The defence of provocation to murder operates at different levels across Australia, although it is now no longer available in Victoria, WA or Tasmania.
In the other states, saying a person provoked you to be violent can reduce the charge from murder to manslaughter, meaning a significantly lower sentencing outcome.
It is most often used by violent men who murder their former or current partners.
Peniamina stabbed Sandra about 30 times and then he beat her to death using a block of concrete as she tried to escape him.
He admitted killing Sandra, but went through two trials claiming Sandra provoked him and as a result he ended her life because he lost control due to the ‘heat of passion’ – the offending that made him so out-of-control? Sandra swearing, Sandra refusing to speak to him when he made jealous accusations and him cutting his hand on a knife Sandra grabbed to protect herself as he was hitting her.
As a result of this, he was convicted on a charge of manslaughter and sentenced to 16 years in jail. If he was convicted of murder he would have faced a mandatory life sentence.
There’s no changing the legal outcome for Sandra and her loved ones but her case is being used as the catalyst for amending the criminal code so the defence of provocation is removed.
The Queensland Law Reform Commission has recommended repealing the state’s three provocation defences, which includes a partial defence to murder and complete defence to assault.
Sandra was trying to leave Peniamina when he killed her – she wanted to return to Auckland with her four sons. But he took their passports, trapping them in Australia.
“She was loyal,” Sandra’s sister told a media outlet after Peniamina’s sentencing in 2021.
“Sandy was the best mother to her four boys.
“She loved them endlessly and would do her best to provide them with the best.
“She raised all four boys to be kind, loving and to always have a caring nature.
“She was loving. She was funny. She was just a lovely person. She was kind.”
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