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1. Adelaide student says he killed his demanding mother in self-defence after a dispute about piano practice.
An Adelaide student admits he killed his mother, but claims it was in self-defence after the pair fought about him not wanting to practice the piano, a court heard.
Wei “Daniel” Li, 22, told a jury his mother, Emma Mae Tian, 41, yelled and screamed at him and then “came at me out of nowhere” with something in her hand, the ABC reports.
“I think she wanted to kill me, I had to fight back, I had to stop her,” he told the South Australian Supreme Court.
The law student said he was unable to reason with his mother and could not remember anything beyond that point.
She told listeners she had been thrilled with the support she had received on deciding to take up the position.
“People just won’t give me that chance. The biggest problem is we didn’t want to be aligned with that prank call. You know, if you start somewhere we’re going to get that bad reputation, we’re going to get people talking about it and rehashing it [but] it hasn’t happened with this. The press has been incredibly supportive and positive,” she said.
In 2012 Greig and her then co-host on 2Day FM’s breakfast show, Mike Christian made a prank call to the hospital where Kate Middleton was a patient, pretending to by Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip.
The nurse who put the call through to the ward later suicided, blaming the call and triggering a series of inquiries and reviews.
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Top Comments
8. A woman is dead, her children have lost their mother. After 3 years this has not changed.....Mel played a part in that loss and time will never change that.
This is just such a sad thing to say but - is it for the better that that poor man died as well as his whole family? Could he conceivably have lived on? RIP.
I know what you mean :(