Manthana “Nancy” Khantharat must have been terrified as she was murdered by her partner inside their unit, south of Sydney, a judge has said.
Manthana Khantharat, known as Nancy, was an “exceptional big sister” and a “huge part” of her family’s lives. She had planned a trip overseas to see her parents when a jealous boyfriend beat down the bathroom door and killed her during what a judge described as a “sustained attack”.
During the attack, Khantharat locked herself in the bathroom, and “the offender broke in to further assault her”, according to the agreed facts. The facts state the couple received a termination notice from the Sydney restaurant because Tammajanta was aggressive towards Khantharat as she served a customer.About a month before the murder, the couple started working at another restaurant in Shellharbour, where a female colleague noticed Tammajanta was “hot-headed”.“The deceased told her that the offender was abusive towards her and has hit her before when he had been drinking,” the facts state.
Keay said Khantharat’s cause of death was a head injury, which “must have been occasioned with a significant degree of force”, and the victim had suffered multiple fractures to her forearms considered defensive wounds. “In addition, the assault included the offender at some point grabbing the deceased by the throat and applying sufficient pressure to cause injuries to her throat and petechiae of the eyes.”
He accepted there had been “some minimising” by his client of his conduct when he spoke to police. The court heard that Tammajanta has been diagnosed with a depressive disorder.
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