Partner’s eleventh hour plea after Perth mum bashed with towel rail
He said to the police, who came to the house a short time later, “Help me, help me.”
A candlelight vigil has been held at Parliament House in 2023 for Bedford mother Tiffany Woodley, who was allegedly murdered by her former partner on August 7.Credit: Holly Thompson
“He needs help, please help him.”
Tiffany lay in a pool of blood, badly beaten.
He had 42 soft tissue injuries to his head and face, and missing and broken teeth.
The court heard eight of his injuries were circular in shape and matched the tip of a towel rack used in a “poking style motion” on his head.
Damjanovic told police “yes, I am a murderer” and that he would burn in hell for what he did to her.
“He said he just wanted him to survive,” the prosecutor told the court.
He later told police he had injected speed that morning and that Tiffany had smoked marijuana and was “teasing her”.
He told them he kicked her but fell and hit his head on the towel rack.
Damjanovic has pleaded not guilty to Woodley’s murder and was due to appear in court on Monday, but minutes before his defense team said he would change his plea and admit causing the mother’s death.
Woodley’s aunt, Rosalie Miller-Kickett, paid tribute to her niece at the time of her death, describing her as a loving mother and sister.
Tiffany Woodley’s family members and friends are at the scene in 2023.Credit: Rebecca Peppiatt
“He was never a violent person,” he said.
“He was a nobody. He was so kind that everyone loved him.”
Woodley was a former Narrogin High School student who started working at a pharmacy in Morley.
On Monday, her mother, Meretta Kickett, wept quietly with other members of the family as the confronting details of her daughter’s violent death were read in court.
Damjanovic will be sentenced in March next year.
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