Tortured girls watched mum being stabbed, killed

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Police attend the crime scene where a mother-of-four was killed. Picture: Joe Sabljak
Source: Herald Sun





A MAN who murdered a mother and violently assaulted two of her daughters, had been out of jail for just three weeks, a court has heard.


Sean Maraffko, 42, has pleaded guilty to the stabbing murder of Joanne Kate Wicking, 29,  who had taken him in after his release from jail.

The violent offender had been paroled just three weeks before murdering the mother of four from Kilmore, Victoria.

Maraffko, who had been paroled after bashing a former partner, flew into a rage and punched and stabbed Ms Wikcing four times, turning on two of her daughters, then aged eight and ten, hitting and kicking them and gagging one with duct tape.

“I want him to be dust, be dead,” the younger of the girls said in a victim impact statement tendered to the Supreme Court.

“I can’t understand how he could do that to a little kid,” she wrote, adding her pain of her mother being in heaven and not being around for birthdays, Christmas and Mothers days.

Ms Wicking’s four children were all home at the time of her brutal death, the Victorian Supreme Court heard today.

Maraffko, 42, who gave his address to the court as Queensland, had pleaded guilty to murder and two counts of intentionally causing serious injury.

Prosecutor Gavin Silbert, SC, told the court Maraffko had been out of prison for just three weeks and was on parole.

A mutual friend had organised for him to live with Ms Wicking.

Today, Ms Wicking’s mother Helen Wicking looked Maraffko in the eye as she told him about the pain he had caused to her family.

“I am very, very angry,” she said staring straight at Maraffko.

The pre-sentence hearing before Justice Elizabeth Curtain is continuing.

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