NSW: Confessed murderer asks for mother to be left alone

AAP General News (Australia)
12-02-2008
NSW: Confessed murderer asks for mother to be left alone

SYDNEY, Dec 2 AAP - A Sydney man awaiting sentencing for the murder of his girlfriend
has pleaded with her supporters to leave his mother alone.

Paul James Wilkinson, a former Aboriginal liaison officer with NSW police, was facing
a sentencing hearing in the NSW Supreme Court on Tuesday.

The 33-year-old Picnic Point man has pleaded guilty to murdering 23-year-old student
nurse Kylie Labouchardiere in April 2004.

Her family reported her missing to Gosford police, but her body has never been found.

When Justice Peter Johnson returned to the courtroom after a brief adjournment, a woman
was talking to Wilkinson, who was in the dock.

Wilkinson's barrister told the judge there had been "some incident outside the court"

involving Wilkinson's mother and she wanted to tell her son about it.

Wilkinson stood up, saying he could understand people having problems with him.

"Don't take it out on my mother," he said.

"Don't take it out on anyone else in the family.

"If you want to have a problem, have it with me."

Sentencing was adjourned to December 15

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