Lauren Cassimatis
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 28 Jun
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Australian True Crime · The Only Australian Woman Sentenced to Life Without Parole · 25 Jun 2026
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Yeah, so I laughed at that because I thought, God, what kind of mentor is she?
But, yeah, I don't know initially what had happened because the jail, once it's outside the court, that's it.
It's up to the jail now to classify her and decide what's best for her and best for the community.
When you look at the case, it's remarkable in that it's probably the most, I'd say, reprehensible crime at that stage in Australia that had occurred.
And what makes it more, I'm not going to say attractive, but people fascinated by true crime.
And why were they so fascinated by her?
It's because she was a female.
A lot of people don't expect women to be so aggressive.
And also because it was just so...
Mm-hmm.
So she not only experienced violence against herself, but she witnessed horrific violence against her mother, sexual violence.
And so that usually is a precursor to violent crimes.
And I always say there's no such thing as an evil person.
People commit crimes because of...
something that's happened in their lifetime.
And often what you see with women is that they are a victim of domestic violence to begin with, and it turns into crime because either they've learnt maladaptive behaviours, they've sort of inherited these actions and they go on to do it themselves, or there's such a deterioration in their sense of worth, their sense of esteem and their sense of, I guess, belonging, that they look for crime as a way to heal.
So I'm thinking, for example, drug use.
Uh, fraud, like there's often women that are committing, um, dishonest defences because it's a way to take charge of their life or control their life.
She ended up, um, what the psychiatrist assessed her as was having borderline personality disorder.
And that often comes from serious trauma as a child witnessing violence like she did.
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