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Australian True Crime

A victim’s perspective of the mental impairment defence

Australian True Crime

Bravecasting

True Crime

4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

David Cammarata’s childhood best friend is currently a forensic patient in a secure psychiatric facility. He was found not guilty of the machete murder of his own brother at a suburban shopping centre and of stalking and attempting to murder David, because the judge believed he was suffering from severe mental illness when he committed the offences.

David and his family were terrorised for years before his former friend Jonathan was apprehended. Now he lives in fear that he’ll one day be released. 

 

David’s former best friend, the best man at his wedding is a man by the name of Jonathan Dick. 


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CREDITS:

Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram 

Co-Host: Emily Webb. You can find her on Instagram here and listen to her podcast Killer Content here. 

Guest: David Cammarata

Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard

Executive Producer: Jacqueline Tonks

Recorded at a Hub Australia Media Studio. Find the workspace that's right for you at https://www.hubaustralia.com/


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1:21.8

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1:27.0

And if you've lived a good few years under the type of pressure and stress of having someone stalking you,

1:37.7

it creates a lot of issues in every part of your life. I these days have to take four different types of medication.

1:45.2

I've got all those triggers from day-to-day life and that's from opening doors to I scold myself if I walk out of a door and I don't look each way

1:55.9

I can't handle if someone's a few meters behind me I've got an idiom and then I've got a move

2:01.2

things like that won't go away and I look at it and I think if you

2:05.2

allow him back out on the streets again it could cost me my life or somebody else and I think

2:11.4

that that's a big risk to take to the community.

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