The sister of a woman stabbed to death by her ex-husband has told a Perth court she still suffers from anxiety and nightmares over the incident. 55-year-old Paul Anthony Cannon murdered his wife Lynn Cannon at Landsdale in Perth’s north in December last year.
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00:00 State prosecutor David Lemer told the Perth Supreme Court that festering anger, jealousy
00:06 and selfishness drove Cannon to commit this terrible crime.
00:10 The court heard that Lyn and Paul Cannon had been separated for two years, but Cannon continued
00:16 to send Lyn abusive text messages and threats.
00:20 Now the day before she was killed, Paul Cannon went to her home where he learned that she
00:25 was in a new relationship.
00:26 The following day, she then went to his house ostensibly to fill out paperwork relating
00:31 to the transfer of a vehicle.
00:33 It was there that Cannon killed her.
00:36 Now he was seen by his landlord standing over her with two kitchen knives.
00:40 He stabbed her repeatedly, seven times in the chest, to her arms and her legs and her
00:45 chin.
00:46 He was apparently at the time heard to be saying, "I told you I was going to kill you."
00:52 Today her sister Jacqueline Daly read her victim impact statement to the court.
00:56 Now she said Cannon was frequently unemployed and abusive towards her sister.
01:01 She says she still has nightmares where she thinks her sister is still alive and she's
01:06 holding her, but then she wakes up and realizes all over again that she's dead.
01:10 She says her sister's death has devastated her and her extended family and her two sons
01:15 who she had with Paul Cannon.
01:19 She's described Lyn as a beautiful person, as someone who was loving and always had everyone
01:24 else's best interests at heart.
01:26 Prosecutors say due to the seriousness of the crime, the non-parole period should be
01:31 in the upper end of what is available when sentencing.
01:34 However, Cannon's defense lawyer argued that his early plea, along with the fact that there
01:38 was no evidence of physical abuse in their relationship prior to the murder, should be
01:43 considered a mitigating factor in sentencing.
01:45 However, the judge dismissed this argument.
01:48 Justice Anthony Derrick has reserved his decision until Friday.
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