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The disturbing triple-0 call a woman made moments after she viciously decapitated her own mother has been played to a court as her sister says she will ‘never forgive’ her.
Jessica Camilleri, 27, has been found guilty of manslaughter after she inflicted more than 100 stab wounds on her mother Rita, 57, after an argument in the kitchen of their St Clair home in western Sydney in July 2019.
On the disturbing audio from police files, Camilleri can be heard calming explaining to the dispatcher that she ‘thinks she killed her’ after describing a row between the two.
‘I just kept stabbing and stabbing and stabbing her. And I took off her head. I ran to my neighbour’s house, and I had my mum’s head in my hands. I chopped her head off,’ she can be heard saying.
Her sister Kristi Torrisi on Wednesday told the NSW Supreme Court her mother was taken from her by the ‘selfish hands of my own sister’ who was given endless help that she refused.
‘My mother was taken from me … she was killed and butchered like she was nothing – all because of a fit of rage,’ Ms Torrisi told reporters gathered outside court.
Jessica Camilleri, 25, (pictured) was charged with murder after allegedly beheading her mum Rita Camilleri, 57. She was found not guilty on the grounds of her severe mental illness
Ms Camilleri (pictured) was babysitting her other daughter’s four-year-old son at the time of her death
‘I can never forgive nor forget a single thing about that evening, she was aware of the help (we had given her), all of which she continued to refuse because she preferred the attention … it was her own choices in refusing the help which led her here.
Her family was well aware of the help needed by Camilleri – who has since been diagnosed with a number of mental disorders – but she consistently refused their support, her sister said.
‘She preferred the attention her behaviour attracted instead,’ she said.
‘I feel my family have now been accused of not helping her but all we did was try.’
Ms Torrisi said she suffers from extreme social anxiety over her mother’s killing and the associated gossip around it’s gruesome nature.
On the night of the grizzly knife attack, Camilleri rang a neighbour and asked them to call Triple Zero.
When police and ambulance arrived at the bloody scene she claimed it was self defence and that her mother first went at her with a knife.
The victim’s sister Mary Hill also spoke of the ‘double-edged sword’ of grieving her baby sibling but also feeling mixed emotions towards her niece and perpetrator.
Her daughter Jessica, 25, (pictured) allegedly carried her head down the road before leaving it in a neighbour’s front yard. She had been charged with murder but a jury ruled she was not guilty
She described saving her sister from drowning in a neighbour’s dam when they were children.
‘But as hard as I tried I couldn’t save her from Jess.
‘Rita’s unconditional love for her daughter was remarkable.’
‘She was blindsided and couldn’t see what I could see.’
As well as suffering from an intellectual disability which made her ‘child-like, naive and narcissistic,’ Camilleri was also on the autism spectrum and diagnosed with intermittent explosive disorder.
The condition is a behavioral disorder characterised by explosive outbursts of rage and violence.
Camilleri was also fixated with violent horror films and had an obsession with three particular numbers.
Forensic police pictured at the scene of Rita Camilleri’s St Clair home in July 2019
Ms Hill said her family had been let down on numerous occasions by the mental health services.
‘This happened to our family even though Rita did the very best she could. She asked for help,’ she said.
Camilleri told a psychiatrist she ‘saw red’ when her mother threatened to call emergency services to put her in a mental institution and was in a fit of rage when she began dragging her mother by her hair down a corridor to the kitchen of their St Clair home.
She used seven knives, some of which she broke to inflict more than 100 wounds to her mother’s head, and another 100 defensive wounds were found on her body.
Later diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder among other conditions, Camilleri had a horror-film obsession which partly inspired the gruesome attack, the court has heard.
While drenched in blood she asked police at the scene if doctors could work ‘miracles’ and ‘sew her head back on?’
She is due to be sentenced in March.
Jessica, 25, allegedly carried her head down the road before leaving it in a neighbour’s front yard
Jessica’s family struggled to deal with her profound mental health issues, including bipolar disorder, severe paranoia and anxiety but her mother Rita (pictured) always stood by her
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