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Dec 03, 2014 News
A man who killed his mother with a samurai sword and a knife has been sentenced to
life in prison after being found guilty of murder.
A Supreme Court jury took just over six hours to find 21-year-old Queensland man Horace Lorenzo Lyken-Jones guilty of the murder of 38-year-old Roxane Gilbert, also known as Roxane Jones, in 2012.
Jones stabbed his mother more than 30 times with a blunt samurai sword and a knife.
Her body was found wrapped in a blue tarpaulin in the backseat of her car on June 29, 2012, in bushland near Gladstone, in central Queensland, Australia.
Judge Duncan McMeekin has sentenced him to life in prison.
The court heard that the Jones kept stabbing his mother despite her pleads for him to stop.
Jones allegedly said the sword’s blade broke so he plunged a steak knife into her throat to stop her breathing.
He told police he also “pierced her heart” and he felt it deflate.
During his opening address to the Rockhampton jury, prosecutor Todd Fuller said Jones initially denied knowledge of his mother’s death, but later admitted to police that he had killed her.
A three-hour recording of an interview between Jones and police was played to the Rockhampton jury.
During the attack, Jones said his mother asked him, “Why are you doing this? I’m your mum”.
He said he replied: “I’m not your son”.
Jones told police he had a cosy but dark relationship with his mother, the court heard.
He said when he was in year seven at school, his mother kicked him out of home after he expressed disgust that she was having sex with men for money.
Prosecutor Todd Fuller said Ms Gilbert had fallen out with her eldest son because of her “erratic behaviour and lifestyle choices”. But apparently the final straw came on June 29, 2012, when Ms Gilbert hung up on one of Jones’s friends who called the house.
As the woman sat on the couch, Jones allegedly struck her to the head with an ornamental sword, which was on display in his bedroom. As she stood up he allegedly slashed her neck, before slitting her throat when she fell to the ground, pleading for him to stop.
The court heard Jones then began cleaning up the mess before Gilbert began to move again, which led him to allegedly stab her twice in the chest with the sword and another knife.
An autopsy revealed her skull had been chipped and her lung punctured.
When Jones went to his house later that day and allegedly told his friends he had killed her, they thought he was joking.
Her body was found in the backseat of her car the next day with a plastic bag over her head and her hands zip-tied, wrapped in a plastic sheet and then covered in a blue tarpaulin.
Gilbert and her son were both born in Guyana, and the pair migrated to Australia soon after Horace’s birth. She has two other children, a five-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl.
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