‘Have any last words?’ Thug’s chilling question before trying to kill girlfriend

A REMORSELESS, violent ice user who asked his ex-girlfriend if she had “any last words” before stabbing her in the neck with a 30cm bread knife has been jailed for a decade.

Jazire Johnson, 29, pleaded guilty last week to attempted murder, aggravated assault and arson, committed in September last year in Moulden.

Johnson, a father of three, admitted to stabbing his exgirlfriend, who the NT News has chosen not to name, but asking her twice beforehand: “Do you have any last words?”

Johnson also threatened his ex-girlfriend’s mother with the knife as her daughter was bleeding heavily from the wound in her neck.

“I’m going to kill you c--ts,” Johnson said as he banged the knife on the bonnet of a car the older woman was trying to take refuge behind.

Johnson, who started re- using meth in 2014 after successfully getting clean, went on to set fire to a mattress at his girlfriend’s mother’s house, leaving the house damaged and his girlfriend’s mother homeless for six weeks.

Chief Justice Michael Grant said Johnson’s crimes had a “a horrendous psychological impact” on both victims, and left his ex-girlfriend with major physical scars.

“She still vividly recalls the tearing sensation she felt as the knife pierced her skin,” he said. “She remembers trying to pull the knife out of her neck and cutting the tendons in her finger in that attempt.”

The woman said even news reports showing violence could leave her with flashbacks.

In a victim impact statement, the older woman said she regularly has flashbacks of seeing her daughter’s eyes rolling back in her head when Johnson stabbed her.

Johnson, who has a long history of violence, was only just out on a suspended sentence after committing an unprovoked attack on a 51-yearold woman in Katherine in August 2015, which saw that woman left with a broken cheek, nose and eye socket.

The court heard Johnson, originally from Katherine, kicked his ice habit for five years but began using again when he moved back to the Territory. He had smoked both ice and cannabis the day of the attack.

Chief Justice Grant said Johnson’s attempted murder of his partner had “no rational explanation” and that he saw no “objective indication of remorse”.

He said: “At worst, (Johnson) would have completed (his) murderous intention had the mother not intervened.”

Johnson was jailed for a decade, but will be eligible for parole in 2021.