A mother whose daughter was viciously murdered in Sydney bushland before her body was set alight has called for love, respect and an end to violence against women.
Namja Carroll was taken to a remote part of Sandy Point in the city's south-west by Benjamin Troy Parkes and Robert Sloan on July 14, 2020 before she was killed with a baseball bat, doused in petrol and burnt.Benjamin Troy Parkes, 46, was found guilty of violently murdering Namja Carroll with his co-accused Robert Sloan on July 14, 2020. "It is an abnormal and unforeseen event," she told the NSW Supreme Court.
She said her daughter was a vulnerable woman who, while academically gifted at school, struggled with drug addiction and childhood abuse. But she questioned whether these mental conditions could be linked to the crime at all, adding CCTV footage revealed the ex-bikie engaged in "excessive" use of ice that impaired his judgment at the time.During the trial, the jury heard Carroll met Parkes and Sloan when they were selling drugs out of Hunts Hotel Liverpool, also in the city's south-west.Anne Carroll described how the loss of her then 33-year-old daughter had traumatised her.
Parkes claimed he did not intend to murder Carroll, saying he only wanted to set fire to her SUV out of concerns it could be linked to their activities.The jury rejected these accounts in finding Parkes guilty of murder.
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