Paul Thijssen was a psychopath who “knew exactly what he was doing” when he took a hammer to a school and murdered Sydney water polo instructor Lilie James, a top criminal psychologist has claimed.
A former student at St Andrew’s Cathedral school where the murder took place last week, Thijssen’s fatal attack was not a spontaneous act of violence.
“There’s a degree of planning and they often build up to it,” he said, acknowledging that like in the case of Ms James, it was “very unusual to break up and get killed straight away”. Thijssen is understood to have sent a text to Ms James’ dad from her phone after she was killed. Pretending to be his victim, he messaged asking to be picked up.
There is typically a pattern of escalating conduct throughout the course of a relationship that ends in one person being murdered, he said.
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