Australian PM John Howard got lots of media play castigating the United States for its "violent gun culture" after the Virginia Tech shootings, but in some ways our lone psychotic is less chilling than the tale of two Aussie teenage girls: Perth girls get life for murder
Two teenage girls in Western Australia have been sentenced to life in prison for killing a friend to see whether they would feel remorse at the deed.
The girls, aged 16 at the time of the murder, strangled Eliza Jane Davis then buried her under a house.
They told police they knew it was wrong to kill but it "felt right", and they did not regret Davis's death.
Perth Children's Court president Denis Reynolds said the murder was "gruesome and merciless in the extreme".
Shallow grave
The pair, who cannot be named because of their age, killed 15-year-old Davis while the three were staying at the same house in the coal-mining town of Collie, south of Perth, on 18 June 2006.
They had been discussing how neither would feel bad about committing murder when they decided to kill Davis, who was sleeping in another room, a court heard in April.
They dressed in old clothes then strangled Davis with speaker wire and buried her body under the house, the court heard.
The girls confessed to police after deciding the grave was too shallow and that they would inevitably be caught.
Earlier, they had reported Davis as missing and pretended to help with the search for her body.
Their lawyers said experts were baffled as to the motivation behind the attack.
The girls were jailed for life, with a minimum sentence of 15 years.
And from another news report:
...one of the girls had described watching Eliza's reactions change from anger, to fear, to the realisation that she was going to die, but did nothing to stop the murder.
So they decided to kill their "friend" to see if they felt remorse and they discovered they did not. In fact they only discovered that strangling her with wire and burying her in a shallow grave "felt right."
Alright John, you tell me, what part of Australian culture is to blame for the creation of these monsters?
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