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which he said “was brief … a matter of seven, eight seconds”.

Pilcher testified: “All I was doing was trying to stop her from stabbing me again. I tried to grab her hands” and “it was all just very, very fast”.

He said that he did not recall having “sole control of the knife at any stage during the wrestle, but it appears as though I did”.

Ms Henderson suffered one fatal knife wound through the back of her chest and a further 20 other knife wounds to her face, throat, head, shoulder and hands.

According to the judgment, Pilcher called the police telling them he had stabbed Ms Henderson with a kitchen knife.

Ms Jupp “knew something terrible had happened” when she received a call from police at 4am the morning after Ms Henderson’s death asking for her parents’ contact details.

She found out the news shortly after.

Speaking generally, Claire Meikle from the North Queensland Domestic Violence Resource Centre said women could face violence at any time in their relationships, but there were two periods which posed greater threats.

“A very high-risk time is when women are leaving relationships. Other risk times are when they’re pregnant,” she said.

“Women may feel too uns safe to leave a relationship at a particular time and sometimes too unsafe to access support services.”

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