A man who stabbed his partner nine times in a park in Darwin's northern suburbs has been found guilty of murder in Darwin's Supreme Court today. Warren Dhamarrandji plead not guilty to murder, arguing the defence of diminished responsibility.
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00:00 Four years after this dramatic arrest in Darwin's northern suburbs, the man being placed in
00:10 handcuffs, Warren Damarangi, today found guilty of murder.
00:15 Following an almost two-week trial, the jury took less than two hours to hand down its
00:19 unanimous verdict.
00:21 Agreeing with what Crown Prosecutor Lloyd Babb described as a calculated and premeditated
00:27 attack and a textbook example of domestic violence.
00:31 Damarangi tracked down his partner and stabbed her nine times with a knife in a park on the
00:36 morning of December 1, 2020, a week after she ended the relationship because of continued
00:42 domestic violence.
00:44 Damarangi pleaded not guilty to murder, but guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter,
00:50 claiming the defence of diminished responsibility.
00:53 His lawyer, Philip Bolton, telling the court in closing arguments last Friday that Damarangi
00:58 wasn't violent, saying he was born with a "very significant cognitive impairment"
01:04 and he was a kid in an adult's body who had trouble regulating his emotions.
01:09 Rejecting Damarangi had a significant impairment, prosecutors argued he understood what he was
01:15 doing.
01:16 He disposed of the knife, he changed his shirt, and he actively evaded police detection for
01:22 over an hour.
01:24 That conduct is completely consistent with the accused attempting to get away with a
01:29 pre-planned stabbing.
01:31 Damarangi is facing a minimum mandatory jail term of 20 years.
01:36 Lawyers will reconvene next Monday to deliver sentencing submissions.
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