Accused attacker Kim Ramchen’s tragic past revealed
Against the dark backdrop of her model mother’s mysterious disappearance and her father’s suspicion of murder, Kim Ramchen charted a path of redemption by achieving a perfect VCE score.
This incident thrust the then 17-year-old into the headlines for the right reasons, years after his family’s name was thrust into the public spotlight due to the high-profile disappearance of his TV model mother, Jacqui Ramchen.
Kim was only four years old when her mother disappeared; Her father, Slavik Ramchen, was suspected of involvement in his wife’s disappearance, but died of pancreatic cancer in 2002 after the charges against him were withdrawn.
Kim dedicated the result to his family and said he hoped to go on and study science and engineering.
But twenty years later, the Ramchen name appeared before the courts again.
Kim, an IT teacher at Keysborough Secondary School in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs, is accused of stabbing the school’s principal, Aaron Sykes.
The tragic story of the family began in 1992 with the suspicious disappearance of former model Jacqueline Ramchen.
Jacqueline was the host of the popular television game show The Price Is Right and worked as a model.
Her husband and Kim’s father, Slavik, was charged with her murder in 2002, even though Jacqueline’s body was never found.
The court heard Jacqueline told friends she could “voluntarily disappear”. [a] He tracks him down and is never heard from again.”
The millionaire engineer vehemently denied any involvement in her disappearance and death; The case against him collapsed in 2002 due to insufficient evidence.
The magistrate found that if the prosecution’s case was assessed on the balance of probabilities, Jacqueline could be presumed dead, but not under the criminal standard, which requires proof beyond reasonable doubt.
Kim supported and cared for her father as he died.
In 2005, messenger of the sun reported that Kim overcame twin tragedies to achieve a perfect ENTER score of 99.95.
“Somehow I finally made it,” Kim, who attended Melbourne Grammar, said at the time.
“I was surprised, I was sure I would get a pretty good score but I didn’t think it would be this high.”
On Tuesday, Kim allegedly stabbed the school principal following an argument at the Acacia campus around 3 p.m.
Sykes was taken to hospital following the violence, which caused some students to hide under desks.
Kim, a computer and digital studies teacher at the school, was arrested at the scene.
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