Teenager kills pedophile in drunken rage
A teenager “snapped” before he stabbed, strangled and stomped on the head of a convicted pedophile after years of appalling abuse, a court has been told.
Timothy Hemi Schaefer, 19, faced sentencing submissions in the South Australian Supreme Court today after pleading guilty to murdering Jeffrey Edwin Payne, 56, in Adelaide in April 2007.
The court was told there was no evidence he had been a victim of Mr Payne.
But in a drunken rage he punched the frail man in the nose, stabbed him in the leg, followed him across a park and taunted him about being a child sex offender before killing him, the court was told.
Schaefer’s lawyer Greg Mead said his client had suffered “appalling” abuse from an early age at the hands of a violent, alcoholic father who beat him every day. (news)
