A 19-year-old man has pleaded guilty to the rape and murder of Melbourne comedian Eurydice Dixon.
Jaymes Todd pleaded guilty to murder, rape and sexual assault before the Melbourne Magistrates Court via video link on Thursday.
When asked to enter a plea, Todd leant towards the microphone in front of him and said: ‘‘Guilty, Your Honour.’’
Dixon was 22 when she was attacked walking home late at night after performing a stand up gig in Melbourne’s CBD.
Her body was discovered on a soccer pitch in Princes Park in the early hours of June 13, 2018. Todd handed himself into police later the same day.
It was later revealed on the night of her murder, just a few hundred metres from home, Dixon sent her final text message.
“I’m almost home safe, HBU [how about you],” she wrote to her friend with whom she’d been out with.
Dixon’s death sparked national outcry, with thousands attending the candlelit Reclaim Princes Park Vigil in mid-June.
– With AAP.
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Well, it’s a start. Now for the judge to do their part, and give him a nice long sentence. Preferably life with no parole, but I won’t hold my breath.
Part of me is impressed that he didn't try to weasel out of it with excuses like the spineless arsehole who vandalised her memorial's mewling of "it was a political statement."
Ugh, god, how gross was that?
I'd be similarly impressed, if only I didn't suspect he probably just pleaded guilty to cop a lesser sentence than would have transpired from an unsuccessful trial.
That it needs to be explained to some people that a memorial for a rape and murder victim isn't the place to try make "cock and balls" political statement through vandalism is sad enough...