She Held a Goodbye Party For Her Boyfriend Before Killing Him | THE CASE OF JOE CINQUE

hey guys it's Bella welcome back to my Channel or if you're new here welcome I hope you guys are all having a wonderful day today in today's video we are going to be covering another mystery Monday case and we're going to be talking about an Australian case that is so incredibly infuriating like I guarantee by the end of this you guys are gonna rage because I did when I was researching this I was enraged truly before we do get into it I just quickly want to thank today's sponsor Audible for making this video possible and I just want to say how grateful I am to be working with one of my favorite companies again I just feel blessed I love audible they have such an amazing selection of audio books of podcasts audible originals and more and there is seriously something for everybody like if you like listening to True Crime psychological thrillers romance if you're into Wellness or celebrity Memoirs seriously there is something for everybody and with the audible app you can listen to them 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miles from Sydney and you know every night they would sit at the dinner table and they would have dinner together and they would tell each other about their days there were photos and trophies of the boys and the family all around the house because they were so proud of their children they were just you know they were just a really close family I know I've said that like three times now but I don't know how else to say it and you know Joe loved sport he was naturally very athletic and during school he played pretty much every sport he could he played cricket and soccer and Tennis he was well liked at school by classmates and also by teachers he was just you know a really social vivacious extroverted guy he could hold a conversation with pretty much anyone he never had a bad word to say about anyone like he just seemed like a really good person and he was also really intelligent he got good grades in school and After High School he he went to University and he got a degree in civil engineering he graduated from University in November 1994 when he was 24 and then after uni he went and traveled around Europe for two months before coming back home still living with his parents and he got a job at a civil engineering firm in Newcastle which his father and his grandfather were actually employed at as well my voice broke a little bit there as well so in early 1995 Joe went out clubbing one night with some friends which is where he met 22 year old a nurse Singh and they hit it off pretty much right away you know and knew was this gorgeous intelligent girl she was born on the 3rd of September in 1972 in India to parents pratium and surinda Singh who were both doctors and they immigrated from India to Sydney in 1973 when Anew was just a baby and they settled in strathfield where they had another child and new attended a Catholic High School there and growing up she was described as a happy-go-lucky kid but she did have some attachment and behavioral issues and she was also super intelligent growing up and she was the Ducks of her year 10 class she graduated high school in 1990 and then moved to Canberra the following year to study economics and law at the Australian National University where she met a guy named Simon and they started dating in 1993 and during this relationship Andrew actually fell pregnant and terminated the pregnancy which had been a pretty traumatic experience for her she was also having a really hard time in Canberra she missed Sydney she missed her family she was calling her parents a lot and she kind of got into recreational jarg use while she was living in Canberra she had started smoking weed in year 10 but by 1993 to 1996 she was using cocaine acid speed ecstasy and meth which was causing her to have hallucinations so because she was having such a hard time she ended up deferring from uni for a year and went back to Sydney to visit her parents which is when of course she met Joe at the club in 1995 and like I said they hit it off pretty much straight away and started seeing each other mind you she still hadn't broken up with Simon by this point so after visiting her parents she went back to Canberra to study law at the Australian National University and her and Joe continued a long-distance relationship during this time which Simon found out about and he broke up with aneur as he should so Joe and Anew started doing the long distance thing and I guess by 1996 things had gotten pretty serious Joe was really taken by a new like he was really into her and he would call her like up to 15 times a day and every single Friday he would drive from Newcastle to Canberra to spend the weekend with her which is like a five hour drive it's like a 450 kilometer or 280 Mile Drive and he would do that every weekend and he would stay until Monday morning and he would leave super early on Monday so that he could make it home for his shift which was at like 9 30 a.m on a Monday so he would have had to be leaving you know Canberra at like four in the morning Anu was also having some issues with her health at that time and you know when she was feeling unwell Joe would just straight up leave work and catch a flight to Canberra to see her just you know I guess to help her make her feel better make sure she was okay so clearly he was very into her and they seemed to have a pretty happy relationship at first but Joe's parents were not into a new because they could tell the relationship was not right for Joe there was a very distinct change in his behavior after they started dating he just didn't seem like himself he seemed like he had changed from the relationship they believed that she was controlling him like normally he was a very extroverted vivacious person but whenever Anew was around he just kind of sank into the background she would lead the conversation and he was just kind of there I call the devil because she's worse than the devil uh it wasn't himself anymore uh she demand too much of him when I was talking with my son she was talking somewhere else since she's so my son Joe was talking to me she kinda grabbed the Joe from his back and start to talk and kiss him he's in there so not only once make four five six times as I mentioned earlier the family had dinner every single night together and they would do this at 6 PM but after Joe and Anu started dating she recalled Joe at like 6 10 P.M every single night so Joe would get up and he would answer the phone and he would leave and he just wouldn't have family dinner with them because they would be on the phone for like an hour an hour and a half which was obviously really upsetting to Maria and Nino because this was an important family time for them so Maria actually answered the phone a few different times and was like Hey look you know we have dinner at 6 P.M every night would you mind just waiting until 7 pm to call and then you can talk to him for as long as you want and she did this a few times and I don't think it worked I'm pretty sure a new just continued to call like right after they started their family dinner eventually in September 1996 Joe ended up moving to Canberra to be with a new and they moved into a townhouse together on antel Street which is in the suburb of Downer and that was about four kilometers or two and a half miles away from a news University so it was a really popular place where a lot of University students lived because it was so close to the university and during this time Joe and Anew also set up a joint bank account called Joe and a news marriage fund so things are getting pretty serious I guess you could say we didn't want him to go there we are so upset we didn't want you to go down there Now by this point I'm stopped taking the drugs that she was previously taking daily which brought on some pretty bad withdrawals depression and she also developed an eating disorder called bulimia where she would basically binge eat and then she would Purge by either self-induced vomiting fasting or taking laxatives and she lost a lot of weight and her parents were really concerned she would go up to them and she would pull her shirt up you know just to show her stomach and she would grab a little bit of skin and say look it's fat and you know by this point she was only drinking Coke and she was only eating tim tams and her parents tried to convince her multiple times to go and see a psychiatrist but she just refused and they were really concerned for her and at one point she actually tried to convince her dad to book her in and pay for her to get liposuction which didn't end up happening and so then she started complaining of some other health issues she believed that she was getting like she said she had really bad aching legs she had bad pains she had hot flushes and she felt like there were things crawling underneath her skin by May of 1997 a new became completely fixated on her health and she started to believe that her muscles were gone that they had been deteriorating or they had been eaten away and she actually did go and see a doctor about this and the doctor told her look physically there's nothing wrong with you this is a purely psychological but a new didn't believe that she didn't believe there was anything wrong with her mind that the issues were all with her body her body had problems and after this a few months later she started to convince herself that she had AIDS and she was telling a friend that she thought it was really unfair that she had AIDS and Joe didn't have AIDS so she planned to actually put some of her affected blood on on his toothbrush but she went and got an AIDS test and the AIDS test came back negative she didn't have it so after that she started to convince herself that she had a nervous system issue like multiple sclerosis So eventually her parents actually did manage to convince her to go and see a psychiatrist and this psychiatrist tried to recommend some like pills or some drugs for her to take to combat these feelings that she was having but she absolutely refused to take these pills and she refused to go to any more appointments during this time a news parents were obviously extremely concerned for her and they tried to help her they tried to convince her to get help and you know obviously she refused so they called the Mental Health crisis team multiple times but they were told that because she wasn't considered a danger to herself or to others that she couldn't actually be admitted without her permission Joe was also by her side throughout all of this he was trying to help her he was just trying to be there for her and support her while she was dealing with all of these health issues but then she started to say that her undiagnosed conditions were a result of ipicac syrup which she had taken large doses of because their syrup basically helps to induce vomiting and she blamed Joe for this because because you know he had mentioned this syrup in like an offhand comment he didn't tell her to take it or anything but at one point I think they were talking about models and how models were so skinny and he was like you know I think it's because they take ipicac Sarah because it helps them to vomit and so I knew heard that she went and checked it out she started taking it and so she resented Joe for inadvertently introducing her to this Sarah for me this is completely and utterly incongruent with Joe number one because he never took drugs and number two I'm sure he didn't even know what it was and similarly she blamed Joe for a lot of her health issues you know even though he had done nothing to her he had been nothing but supportive and been there for her while she was trying to navigate these health issues she just believed that Joe was the reason for a lot of her problems and she went to people at her school and you know friends acquaintances and told them that she wanted to go on a rampage and she wanted to kill Joe and she wanted to kill herself and she also told people that she you know she did law she had studied psychiatric texts so she knew how to convince people that she was insane she also had this other friend named mud Harvey Rao and she was also a very intelligent law student at Anu with Anew and she was described as a bit of a dormer to Anu like I guess she really just would do whatever Anu suggested and together they actually went to the library and researched suicide an assisted suicide methods and I think the thing is that at this time mid Harvey knew that they were researching these assisted suicide and suicide methods because Anew had told her as well that she planned to kill Joe and kill herself so they were like researching how to do that together instead of mid Harvey being like hey maybe don't do that maybe don't kill a innocent guy by August of 1997 a new started to sell her clothes for really cheap like one to two dollars and she was giving away her CDs for free which she claimed was just because she didn't go out anymore so she didn't wear the clothes and she didn't listen to any of the music on those CDs anymore but her parents were really concerned by this behavior and they actually called the dean at Anu and said hey you know has she been going to classes at all and he said I can't tell you that information because she's an adult so then her parents tried to submit an application to the Mental Health crisis team to actually have a new admitted without her permission but unfortunately these applications have quite a lengthy process so there was really nothing they could do but wait during this time a nurse spoke to multiple friends and acquaintances too just like from her uni courses so these were like intelligent law students and none of these law students thought to say hey maybe you shouldn't do that nobody thought to talk her out of it in fact they actually said I know how you feel and if you want to do that you should do it I think you know they knew she was sick or that she thought she was sick so that helped them justify it and to get even crazier she told these people as well that she was planning to either sedate Joe so he couldn't stop her or she was going to murder Joe and then herself and nobody tried to talk her out of it nobody tried to call the police nobody tried to tell her family nobody tried to warn Joe like that is the craziest part about this to me she's out there telling people like hey I might kill my boyfriend and then kill myself and no one's like hey don't do that or call the police or anything like that and they're law students like how are you going to go and enforce the law try and enforce the law when you're not even going to contact the police or contact anybody when somebody tells you that they might kill their boyfriend so toward the end of that month Anew and her friend met Harvey went and spoke to their other classmate named Mr T and Anew had actually first spoken to him in one of her classes I believe and kind of said to him hey you know do you have or is there any possibility that you would be able to get me a gun and he apparently thought that this conversation was a joke despite the fact that a couple days later she contacted him again and was like hey what about that gun you know can you get me that gun I have these illnesses due to apricot syrup that I'm dealing with and I want to end my own life and there are some conflicting reports about what Mr T did whether a new kind of changed her tune and asked for some heroine or whether Mr T said hey actually overdosing on heroin would be a better alternative to shooting yourself I mean I'm genuinely hoping that the latter is not true that someone didn't approach him wanting to end their own life and instead of trying to talk her out of it he said actually you shouldn't end your own life one way you should end it this other way because that's kind of easier but the way that this case went down I just don't know and you'll see what I mean later on like when we get further into it either way Anew and mid Harvey ended up going to Mr T's house a couple of days later to talk about like the logistics of a heroin overdose and he told them that you know it would be pretty instantaneous once you injected the lethal amount of heroin you would stop breathing you would die within a couple of minutes and it would be pretty painless and he told them that it would take around fifty dollars to a hundred dollars of heroin to overdose if you weren't a regular user and Anew was like great I'm not gonna buy any heroin today because I don't have the money but when I do have the money I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna buy some and about a week later a new calls him up and says hey I want to buy about half a gram of heroin great no worries come over so Anew and mid Harvey go to his house a new pays him 250 buys 250 worth of heroin and he then injects himself and injects both a new and mid Harvey with heroine to teach them how to inject themselves and how to inject somebody else in September of 1997 a new one and saw a university counselor and she told them that Joe was abusing her both physically and verbally and he was apparently blaming the abuse on her saying he had never hit a woman in his life before but she said that she couldn't leave him because she was emotionally and financially dependent on him and just before we get any further um we will get into this later but I just want to say now and clear it up now that we found out later that this is actually a load of [ __ ] and a new later admits that this wasn't true Joe was not abusing her in October 1997 a news showed up at Mr T's house again and said that she wanted to buy 500 worth of heroin which is a full gram and he's like you know no worries come in he loaded up two syringes for her and he injected her again as kind of like a re-demonstration of how to inject yourself or inject somebody else and he asked her while she was there you know why do you want so much heroin and she said somebody else is coming with me and he said what do you mean someone else is ending their life with you who is that and she told him you don't need to know who it is and he didn't impress any further questions after this mad Harvey also helped Anu acquire some rehypnol tablets which are also known as roofies or the date rape drug it's like a really powerful tranquilizer and they managed to get this off another classmate who will refer to as B and B was also a heroin user and she managed to get them 15 Rohypnol tablets and she told them look if you're going to use this with Heroin only one roofie is needed to knock a person out on Monday the 20th of October in 1997 Anew decided to host a farewell goodbye dinner for her and Joe because she was planning on killing Joe and then ending her own life that night and she and mad Harvey invited friends classmates acquaintances people they didn't even know who were just law students because like I mentioned the place where Joe and Anu lived was a very popular student housing accommodation and a new admit Harvey literally go around to some of these houses of people they didn't even know knock on the door and be like hey do you want to come to this like goodbye farewell party and all of the people at this dinner knew the purpose of this dinner they knew that it was a good buy slash farewell party that Anew was planning to kill Joe and then end her own afterwards and they decided to come along to see the lead up out of morbid curiosity and everybody knew but Joe nobody warned Joe nobody tried to talk a new out of it nobody contacted the police or the authorities or anything and these are law students they're pretty far through their law studies they know the law reasonably well they're studying to become lawyers to uphold the law and they came to see a potential murder suicide and didn't say anything it's insane to me but Harvey even showed friends the needle mark on her arm and said you know Anew injected me with Heroin to practice injecting it into Joe so that she can kill him later that night and no one did anything it blows my mind so the dinner party goes ahead without a hitch a new is really happy all night she's really loving towards Joe and apparently the people at the party thought that this meant that she wasn't serious about killing Joe and then ending her own life that it was all some kind of joke and Anew did have a reputation as a bit of an attention seeker and somebody who loved drama so they kind of just thought that this was another one of her ways to get some attention what I failed to believe about that is if you thought it was a joke why wouldn't you mention it to Joe or why wouldn't you mention it at the dinner table like why would you purposely hide it from Joe if you thought it wasn't real I just I don't know I think that alone just makes me fail to believe that none of these people thought it was actually gonna happen So eventually everybody leaves and as they're leaving mid Harvey is telling them you know it's still going ahead it's happening tonight once all of you guys are gone she's gonna go ahead with the plan and everyone's gone and once they all leave a new crushes up a few like three or four hypnol pills and puts them in Joe's Coffee which knocks him out and she then goes and gets the heroin syringe which has already like been pre-filled for her with Heroin but because it was so concentrated it had actually congealed so she wasn't able to inject him with the heroine so he woke up the next morning super groggy he just thought it was like a bad hangover not knowing it was actually because his girlfriend had drugged him the night before and tried to kill him so he kind of just went about his day went to work like nothing happened so after that first attempt didn't work and Anu wasn't able to kill Joe she set up a second farewell party for Joe and herself on Friday the 24th of October and again she invited friends acquaintances people I didn't really know there was about 10-ish guests there and she told them herself she was like you know the plan is definitely going ahead tonight it's definitely really happening and nobody said anything nobody called the police nothing and Joe didn't even know about this dinner party he just got home and there was all these people in his house and you know he was a good guy so he was very graceful about it he welcomed them all he had conversations with them about you know how excited he was because he just bought a new car and he had a vacation in Queensland coming up pretty soon and these people had these conversations with him and didn't think to say hey you know what this dinner party's for right like you know why we're here they're just listening to him talking about you know his exciting upcoming plans and they didn't say anything I know I keep talking about that but it's just so unbelievable to me that none of these people thought to help this guy or to warn him even if they didn't think Anew was serious surely they would just tell him like Hey your girlfriend's a bit of a psycho and she keeps telling us all she's going to kill you just thought you should know her even if she's not gonna do it the fact that she's talking about it you should probably know that again the dinner party went off without a hitch and knew was really happy on that she was really loving towards Joe and people stayed until the early hours of the morning midhavi was the last person to leave she left at 6am and she went back to her place she told like her friends or her roommates or whoever and said a new crushed a bunch of her hypnol pills into Joe's Coffee knocked him out and then she tried to inject him with Heroin but he didn't die it's amazing it must not be his time to go when her roommate or friend asked her like why is Anu trying to kill Joe she said well you know Anu just kind of blames him for everything for all of her medical issues and that sort of thing so she just wants to take Joe with her when she ends her own life so surely this friend knew that this was serious and again didn't try and notify anybody between 6 a.m and 9 30 a.m one of the the dinner party guest a girl named Tanya said that she was gonna tell Joe that Anew had given him and drugged him with three Rohypnol tablets the night before so Anew and mid Harvey went and showed up to another one of the dinner party guest houses a guy named Leonard and they told him look a new did give him three Rohypnol tablets the night before but only to put him to sleep so that he wouldn't have to see a new end her life and he wouldn't try and convince her not to do it so then the three of them ended up convincing Tanya not to tell Joe they said you know Anu said you're going to ruin my relationship you're going to ruin my life just let me tell him let me be the one to tell him that I did that and together they convinced her not to say anything to him later that same night at around 10 30 PM Anu actually called Leonard and part of this call was accidentally recorded on his answering machine and she was basically talking to him about how she was worried about the lasting effects of rehypnol because she had given them to Joe obviously the night before and he slept for 15 hours he woke up just a little bit before she called Leonard and he was still clearly affected by them he was very groggy kind of slowing his words a little bit and at one point you can actually hear Joe get on the phone and he says she's worried for nothing I'm fine my mind's fine my body's just a little tired but it's all good and they hung up the call and that was that after that phone call a new ended up calling him Harvey and saying hey can you come over and bring some food and stuff and she did do that but they ended up getting into a fire because a nurse started accusing mid Harvey of being the one to drug Joe and mad Harvey was super pissed off she ended up leaving and after she left Anew ended up crushing a few rehypnol pills into Joe's coffee again and when he passed out she and rejected him with Heroin the next morning on Sunday the 26th of October at around 8 A.M Anew ended up driving to Mid Harvey's House waking her up and bringing her back to her and Joe's house which is where mid Harvey saw Joe on the bed he was asleep he was looking kind of blue but he was still breathing at this point so Anu then drove them to an ATM where mid Harvey got 250 of cash out and she gave this to Anew and then they ended up getting into another sort of fight and mid Harvey ended up walking home by herself while Anew went and drove to Mr T's house which if you remember is the guy who sold a new the heroine and taught a new and mid Harvey how to inject heroin and she bought another 250 worth of heroin from him with mad Harvey's money soon after this Anew ended up calling mid Harvey a bunch of times and initially Bobby kind of told her to you know screw off but eventually she was like okay come and pick me up and a new went and picked her up brought her back to her and Joe's house which is where mad Harvey saw Joe unconscious on the bed and she ended up leaving and going to Leonard's house and she told Leonard that Anew had told her that the night before when Joe had woken up from you know obviously the rehypnol and the heroine that she had given him he told her that he was going to leave her and so a new roofied him again and injected him with Heroin to try and kill him again at around 12 p.m Anu called the friend who had sold her the hypnol who we called B and she told B that she had given Joe Rohypnol she had injected him with heroin and that he was unconscious his lips were slightly blue and he was only taking about one breath every 10 seconds and she basically begged B to come and help her revive him and B said I'm not letting you drag me into this you need to hang up the phone to me immediately and contact the paramedics and then you said well I don't want to contact the paramedics I don't want him to get mad at me and it's too late now he's already gone and be basically called her a selfish [ __ ] and said if you call the paramedics you're going to have an angry boyfriend on your hands but if you don't call the paramedics you're going to have a murder charge on Your Hands So eventually about 10 minutes later a new does end up calling triple zero and this call sucked it was super frustrating to like listen to read the transcripts of she starts off by really calmly saying I would like to get an ambulance for a potential overdose on heroin and then throughout the course she goes from being very very calm to being very very hysterical it's very up and down an ambulance please and she's super evasive as well she tells them you know he's unconscious he has brown liquid coming out of his mouth and the operator tries over and over and over again to get her address so they can send an ambulance out to potentially save Joe's life and you know they would say what's the address so we can send an ambulance and she would say is it bad that he has brown liquid coming out of his mouth instead of giving them the address and then eventually she gives them the wrong address and gives them the wrong name she calls herself Olivia and then eventually she finally gives them the correct address and the paramedics are sent out to the house while the paramedics were on their way the operator told Anew to give him mouth to mouth and she said I can't his teeth are closed they won't open and then eventually the paramedics did arrive and they found Joe unconscious in bed he was naked from the waist down he had brown liquid and blood all around and all over his mouth and he had a bloated stomach and they immediately began trying to resuscitate him and save him and Anew was extremely agitated during this time she was pacing back and forth she begged the paramedics to save him she told them that she had given him rehypnol for hypnol tablets and she had injected him again and again and again with Heroin to put him to sleep so that he wouldn't see her end her own life and she had planned to do the same thing to herself unfortunately despite their best efforts paramedics were unable to save Joe and he died later that night aneur was immediately arrested and she was taken into the police station for questioning one of the officers recalled that for somebody who was crying so much and who was hysterical not once did she need a tissue to wipe her tears later that night Joe's family just had a really bad feeling so his mum Maria tried to call him but Joe didn't answer a police Sergeant actually answered the phone and at the same time police officers actually showed up at their door and when they answered she said you know what's this about and the officer said it's about your son Joe and she said immediately she knew that Anew had killed Joe and that Joe was dead and she didn't need to hear anything else and she immediately broke down and he said it's about your son the son he said there was a I said that started screaming please don't say anymore she killed him did she she killed him so that way I knew that way I knew she did kill him after screaming please don't tell me it's not true it can't be true that's when I knew it was a nightmare hasn't stopped and Joe's younger brother Anthony also punched a hole in the wall and said you know that [ __ ] killed my brother and they ended up having to go to the morgue and to identify Joe and their godson Robert was there and he said that as soon as they kind of pulled the sheet down Maria literally just collapsed into his arms like she just collapsed into him she was devastated both you know the whole family was completely devastated how can you see your child you give birth to you feed it you look after him you bring up a man I have to put him in the whole day and she's still alive it's just so incredibly awful an autopsy and toxicology report was conducted and they did confirm that Joe died of asphyxiation while under the influence of rehypnol and heroin and there was so much heroin in his system that they weren't able to determine if she had injected him in one huge dose or multiple smaller doses but they did conclude that he was likely injected with one dose at 3am on Sunday the 26th of October and again about eight hours later during their investigations police found Joe's daily planner and found that he had written get ready to move on Monday the 27th of October which is the day after he died and he had also drawn a little arrow to 6 PM that day saying urgent and they also didn't find any of his luggage at the house so they believed that he was going to leave Anew that day he had just bought himself a new car he had a real spark in his eye I also got a sense that that maybe there was a new chapter opening up for him that it's time for me to go buying the car was a part of that and a new knew it that's when she decided to do what she did police also search mid Harvey's House and in her room they found Rohypnol alcohol swabs pamphlets about arteries drugs and veins and used syringe packets and they also found like a news torn up diary which proved that she had been depressed for some time and she had also been planning Joe's death for some time police then arrested mid Harvey and took her to the police station for questioning and she was charged with murder attempted murder unlawful and felonious slaying and administering of a stupefying drug and then three days later her parents paid her 100 000 bail and she was released on the condition that she had to remain under her parents supervision at their home in Sydney initially a new and mid Harvey were going to be tried together and their joint trial began on the 6th of October in 1998 but after four weeks the trial was abandoned as the judge believed that the evidence accumulated against Anew would cause unfair and an unjust trial against mid Harvey and so he ordered for them to have separate trials and they both exercised their right to have judge only trials a new solo judge-only trial began on the 22nd of March in 1999 and she pled not guilty by reason of diminished responsibility and the defense argued that yes Anu knew she had broken the law but that she shouldn't be held criminally liable due to her mental health at the time they claimed that she had untreated borderline person personality disorder and major depressive disorder and that she was lost in a delusional world where she truly believed that she was gonna die from a degenerative disease the prosecution argued that her Acts were premeditated deliberate cold-blooded and that she had been planning Joe's death in detail for months they argued that if she was as depressed as the defense claim that she would have gone through with the plan to end her own life as well they presented her diary as evidence which they had pieced together after finding it torn apart in mid Harvey's room and they said that this diary proved that she was rational that she didn't exhibit any signs of mental illness that she was capable of developing and maintaining normal relationships and that she had been planning Joe's death for some time now for months they also argued that she watched him die this wasn't a crime of passion she watched him die over multiple days injecting him with Heroin multiple times and when she finally called the ambulance and Emergency Services she was very evasive and it took her quite a while to even give them the correct address which basically prevented them from being able to get there and give Joe life-saving medical help he took two and a half days to die he was tortured while in custody Anu wrote A Few letters and in the first one she wrote that she was going to write down how all of this happened so she could get it clear in her mind as well and she then went on to describe step by step how she murdered Joe starting with when her and mad Harvey went to the library to research suicide and assisted suicide methods she wrote that she initially planned to only end her own life but after reading stories about loved ones who moved on with their lives and remarried after the suicide of a loved one that she decided it was only fair that Joe came with her so that he couldn't move on and he could never remarry and have a normal life this is another letter that she wrote her mum she said the most wonderful man in the world loved me so much and would have made a perfect husband and father ruined perfect life ruined now everyone is better off than me when I had it all I bet everyone is laughing at me now because of my own utter stupidity and selfishness you must start preparing for my death now my life is over I made the wrong choice when so many others were available at the time worked with the druggies rather than Joe should have protected him and worked with him now so many lives are ruined I wish these druggies were dead and not Joe not Joe mum please not Joe the prosecution argued that these letters prove that she knew her actions were deliberate selfish and wrong and further proved that she was of rational mind the trial concluded on the 24th of June in 1999 and judge Chrisman declared and you're not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and this next part I can guarantee is going to really piss a lot of you guys off like when I told you you were gonna rage this is the time because he sentenced her to 10 years in prison with a minimum parole period of four years back dated to the time of Joe's death so she would be eligible for parole in just two years I'll give you a minute to soak that in because what the [ __ ] how is that fair I don't understand and Joe's family rightfully so were pissed and Marie started yelling at Anew she called her a [ __ ] a demon the devil and she said four years is that all my son is worth four years and she told the reporters outside the courtroom that she believed that a nurse should have been sentenced to death by hanging I mean I just cannot believe that sentence especially considering the fact this was an intelligent girl she was a law student she was pretty far through her law studies and she had been planning this four months and had told multiple people that she could easily get away with a crime because it would be easy to convince people that she is insane and I guess she was right because two years in prison mid Harvey's judge only trial began on the 10th of December in 1999 and she pled not guilty to the four charges against her the defense argued that when she saw are in bed practically dying he was unconscious he died later that night like he was dying when she saw him on the morning of Sunday the 26th of October and she told Anew you know I don't want anything to do with this plan anymore apparently when she said that her duty of care towards Joe ended she wasn't responsible for anything after that judge Crispin said and I quote isn't it a rather chilling concept that one could take part in a plan to kill somebody go out and buy the drugs for the job and then say simply I'm washing my hands of it now I've got no responsibility let him die I completely agree with that statement it is chilling but not chilling enough for judge Crispin to find her guilty he found her not guilty and she was free to go after assisting someone in killing somebody else judge Crispin said that it was undeniable that she was aware Joe was in danger but this didn't prove that she shared a news Criminal Intent or aided in his death I'm sorry how she knew I knew it was going to kill Joe she didn't tell anyone she didn't want Joe she didn't want Joe's parents she didn't tell her knew his parents she didn't call the police and she helped her learn how to inject somebody else with Heroin she also helped her get the rehypnol pills and went with her to buy the heroine and didn't she at one point actually pay 250 for the heroine that ended up killing Joe I'm sorry but how did she not Aid in causing his death so the only repercussions of Joe's death is a new got two years in prison but Harvey got off nobody who attended the dinner parties knowing that a new plan to kill Joe that night were reprimanded in any way I just it's so unfathomable to me Joe's parents Maria and Nina were so unhappy they were devastated and they were pissed off rightfully so and you know when mid Harvey was found not guilty they were yelling and they actually had to be escorted out of the courtroom and later that same night Nino actually ended up collapsing and he had to be rushed to hospital and received treatment for heart problems Anew started her sentence at the silverwater Correctional Complex and she worked there in the prison library and tutored other inmates she also underwent Psychotherapy and was prescribed medication used to treat a range of mental health issues such as OCD anxiety and depression and eventually she was transferred to the Emu plans Correctional Center where she was granted day release so she could go and attend classes at the University of Sydney where she got a master's in criminology how nice for her that in the just two years she had to serve in prison she was allowed to go out during the day and study and get a degree in criminology after killing someone and Joe would never be able to do anything like that ever again he'll never get to get older you know get married have children have a happy life do whatever he wanted to do in October 2001 at age 29 a new was granted parole after serving just two years in prison in 2004 she breached her parole by smoking weed and served a whopping three months in jail and in 2009 she was awarded a doctorate by the University of Sydney's law faculty for her thesis that she wrote about women who commit crimes which was titled offending women toward a greater understanding of female criminality it is a 100 000 word thesis in which she discusses women in crime and also her own involvement in Joe cinque's death Nino and Maria came out and said that this was a desperate attempt to stay relevant and to keep her name in the media Anew also came out and said that when she told the University counselor that Joe was abusive towards her that she had actually made that up it was a lie and Joe was not abusive towards her Anu now lives in Sydney and is in a long-term relationship with another inmate who she met while she was on remand mid Harvey has since changed her name and moved to the United States where she lives with her husband and children and Joe and a news townhouse on antel street has since been demolished to make way for a government housing project to this day Nino and Maria still cannot understand why nobody came to Joe's Aid Nino said why you don't call the ambulance why you don't call the police when you see a person dying if you see a dog on the street from a car accident you call somebody to help the Bloody Dog it's a man dying why you don't call the ambulance in 2017 Anew appeared on a current affair and made a public apology to the Cinque family in the same program Maria rejected a a nurse apology and called her the devil and she said don't tell me this [ __ ] you have killed the most precious thing I had in my life my first son my firstborn the one that was going to carry his grandfather's name is not there anymore but that is everything for this case it is truly so awful I mean the fact that two years in prison is the only repercussions anybody got for Joe chengue's murder is insane I can completely understand why Nino and Maria would be so upset and so angry about this so many people were complicit in this murder as well so many people showed up to these farewell dinners she literally held goodbye dinners like hey I'm gonna murder him tonight come along and see the show and nobody did anything nobody warned Joe nobody called the authorities people helped her mad Harvey helped her get the heroine and the rehypnol it's it's awful it's terrible it's it's unbelievable truly unbelievable but that is it for me today guys I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day and hopefully I will see you in my next video bye guys

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Published: Sun Apr 17 2022