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September 10th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
RESPECT: Flowers are being left outside the Carrington St, Paddington, house where Sidonie Thompson was murdered earlier this week. Picture: Jodie Richter
Source: The Courier-Mail
THE Queensland family of the woman who ended her life after her daughter’s murder say they had done everything possible to help her.
Kim Patterson’s father George said “every help” was given to his daughter, who was raised on Queensland’s southern Downs before travelling overseas, where she met her husband.
Mr Patterson then asked for privacy as his family struggled to deal with the loss of Kim, 48, and her daughter Sidonie Thompson, who was murdered in her Paddington home on Wednesday morning.
Family and friends have described Kim as “highly strung” but a “beautiful mum” who adored her children.
Psychologists are at a loss to explain why Ms Patterson attacked her only daughter on Wednesday and why, minutes later, she took her own life.
Cleaners yesterday spent more than two hours at the family’s inner-city Brisbane home, removing a dismantled double bed believed to have been that of 14-year-old Sidonie.
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The Year 10 Somerville House student was found dead in her bed with slash wounds.
Her mother then drove to the Story Bridge, where she died, leaving her son, 12, in the car.
Detective Inspector Tony Duncan said police were still piecing together statements from family and friends to determine what happened on the day.
“We’re still collecting evidence and that’s the big hold-up,” he said.
“Over the weekend we’ll go through that documentation but so far there haven’t been any major developments.”
Ms Patterson had worked in mental health as an occupational therapist in England, where she met husband Peter Thompson.
After marrying and having two children, the family returned to Australia about five years ago.
Bond University criminologist associate professor Wayne Petherick said it was an unusual crime, both because it appeared to have been committed by the children’s mother and because only one child had been targeted.
“(It’s) the kind of crime we don’t see in Australia very often,” he said. “For some parents who have thoughts of helplessness or hopelessness, they would believe they are doing their children a favour by ending their lives.”
It was “a kind of ‘cruel world’ scenario, where they might mistakenly believe their child was better off dead than to live in an unjust world”.
Mr Petherick said the police had the ability to construct a “psychological autopsy” to build a picture of Ms Patterson’s emotional and mental health.
“If she was suffering from a condition like psychosis, she could have been constructing a delusional scenario – command hallucination – in which she believed she was being told to do a certain thing,” he said.
“When people are on medication for mental illness and if they, for example, missed a pill the day before, often it would be early in the morning the day after that the medication would start to deplete in the system.
“It could be at a point where hallucinations could occur again.”
Queensland Alliance for Mental Health chief executive Jeff Cheverton said murder suicides were rare and unusual.
“In my experience it is very diverse circumstances that would prompt that sort of behaviour. There are certainly not always mental health problems or mental illness involved,” he said.
“These things can happen without premeditation or can happen with people are at the end of their wits in a range of circumstances. They may or may not be experiencing symptoms or behaviours that would necessarily be diagnosed as mental illnesses.”
Warning signs included withdrawing from family life or friendships and obsessive, paranoid, delusional or generally unusual behaviour, Mental Illness Fellowship of Queensland president Ken Meissner said.
“Support can come from the family but very often they need more than that. They need high quality, professional support so they do not get to the point where they harm themselves or someone else,” he said.
Mr Meissner, whose daughter was diagnosed with schizophrenia and committed suicide 11 years ago, warned it was wrong to associate violent crimes with mental illness.
“The vast majority of people with a mental illness can live quite successfully in the community . . . are harmless (and) would not hurt anyone,” he said.
Allied Health Professionals Australia vice-president and clinical, forensic and health psychologist Dr Bob Montgomery said it was important for neighbours, friends and family to act on the warning signs.
He didn’t believe Ms Patterson would have acted deliberately.
Today is World Suicide Prevention Day and experts have urged families to ask loved ones about their emotional wellbeing.
For support and information about mental health and suicide prevention: Lifeline on 13 11 14 or www.lifeline.org.au; SANE Helpline on 1800 18 SANE (7263) or www.sane.org
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