Amy Tran is jailed for seven years for bashing Le Ngoc Le to death as the 76-year-old grandmother walked her dogs in what the sentencing judge described as a senseless crime.
"You bashed her severely with your own hands causing her to fall on the concrete driveway," Justice Bell told Tran as he sentenced her.
He said her crime was probably a response to"the way other people were reacting" to Tran's behaviour."I've never seen a case where a woman has behaved the way you did that day," Justice Bell said."Ms Le's death has had a profound impact on her children," he said. "She was defenceless in the face of your aggression … she loved her little dogs who she walked everyday," Justice Bell said.Tran was originally charged with murder, but pleaded guilty to manslaughter in October.The court heard one witness told police Tran seemed"disturbed, erratic and bewildered".
Locals observed the woman mumbling to herself, spinning on the spot, and walking half on the road, half on the footpath. One man had been so concerned that he called the local hospital to check if there had been an escape from the psychiatric unit.
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