A health tracker has pinpointed the precise second Thomas Bednar broke into his mom’s house and killed her.
He had lengthy held in poor health emotions in direction of 78-year-old Judy Bednar and it grew in depth within the lead-up to his murderous assault on her in Might 2021.
It was deliberate and harsh, and adopted a marketing campaign of conduct designed by him to harass her, motivated by his perception that she had triggered him to be hospitalized for psychological well being situations within the yr prior.
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Bednar, 54, was jailed on Tuesday for 29 years by Victorian Supreme Court Justice Andrew Tinney.
Ms Bednar’s badly crushed and bare physique was found within the bed room of her Chelsea house days later when she couldn’t be contacted by mates.
For the months earlier than her demise she lived in solely well-founded concern of her son, and one may solely think about the fear she felt waking as much as uncover him in her house, Justice Tinney mentioned.
The assault he dedicated was of “scarcely plausible ferocity”, he mentioned.
She suffered extreme blunt pressure accidents and quite a few attainable causes of demise had been recognized or couldn’t be excluded, together with strangulation or suffocation.
Her Fitbit had recorded her going to sleep simply after 2am on Might 14 and at 4.47am recorded her waking up with a pointy burst of exercise.
Then, nothing. Her damaged Fitbit was discovered close to her physique.
Justice Tinney mentioned Bednar instantly demonstrated an absence of regret and remorse, which continues now.
He has repeatedly maintained his innocence and argued at trial that it was household buddy Danny Cohen who killed his mom.
Justice Tinney mentioned that confirmed a degree of desperation and vindictiveness in Bednar.
Petty acts
He blamed his mom for a collection of involuntary psychological well being admissions and at a household assembly learn an inventory of grievances in opposition to her, together with that she by no means took him to soccer follow as a baby.
Mrs Bednar had taken out an intervention order in opposition to her son, fearing he would damage her. He had been engaged in petty acts together with turning off her energy.
She informed mates she feared for her life however the police had mentioned they could not do something except he bodily harmed her.
“By that point it will be too late, as a result of I am going to already be lifeless,” she informed her mates.
Justice Tinney was not optimistic about Bednar’s prospects for rehabilitation.
He mentioned he had given each indication that he was a resentful and embittered man who had added the felony justice system to the checklist of these he believes have wronged him.
Bednar, who has already spent almost two years behind bars, should serve at the least 23 years earlier than he’s eligible for parole.
