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PERTH - TWO young women who bludgeoned and strangled a teenage girl to death and then kissed over her body were jailed for life in Australia Friday.
The judge, noting the pair had shown no remorse and were sexually aroused by violence, ordered they be held under strict security for a minimum of 24 years, the national AAP news agency reported.
Jessica Stasinowsky, 21, and Valerie Parashumti, 19, pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court to murdering 16-year-old Stacey Mitchell at a Perth house in December 2006.
The court heard they bludgeoned her with a concrete block, strangled her with a chain and then videoed her half-naked body before dumping it headfirst into a rubbish bin.
'You have each had more than a year in custody to reflect upon the evilness of your crime, yet you still lack remorse and obviously place no value on the sanctity of human life,' judge Peter Blaxell told them.
'There is also the added problem that you each enjoy being sexually aroused by the infliction of violence.' The prosecutor had told the court the two women had known Mitchell for three days and killed her because she was annoying them.
Parashumti's lawyer, David Edwardson, QC, said his client was partly motivated by a desire to dispel Stasinowsky's jealousy about Stacey, who had walked around the house dressed only in a bikini.
In the same city in May last year, two teenage girls were also sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a 15-year-old friend whom they strangled and watched die during a sleep-over.
The pair, who were 16 at the time of the murder and cannot be named, told police they knew it was wrong to kill Eliza Davis but that it nonetheless 'felt right' and they did not feel bad about strangling her. -- AFP
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