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September 28th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
AAP
The family of a woman strangled by a paranoid schizophrenic 26 years ago has expressed dismay her killer could be released as early as next week.
Stephen Albert Hutton, 56, was jailed for four years on Wednesday for strangling his girlfriend Sandra Therese White, 34, and incinerating her body in country Victoria in August 1985.
But he has already served his minimum term of two-and-a-half years after he was extradited in 2009 from England, where he had confessed his crimes to mental health carers.
In the Victorian Supreme Court, Justice Robert Osborn said he had reached the view that Hutton should be deported to allow him to resume his mental health treatment in the United Kingdom, which he started in 1990.
Tim White, who was 14 when his mother was killed at their Yandoit cottage, expressed relief the case was over but said he had hoped for a longer sentence of perhaps five to seven-and-a-half years.
The court was told the maximum penalty for manslaughter at the time the offences were committed was 15 years.
“Nothing will bring my mum back,” Mr White told reporters outside court.
“But this has been going on for seven years. It’s been draining, it’s just good it’s all over and done with.”
Mr White became emotional as he thanked the prosecutors and investigating police officer Craig Fitzgerald, with whom he worked closely to bring Hutton to justice.
Ms White’s brother, Robert James, said he thought it was “a very soft sentence for the crime committed”.
But he said the family would have a few drinks to celebrate the closure of the case and try to put the events behind them.
The day before her death Ms White was seen fleeing from Hutton and told neighbours he had held her hostage and chased her with an axe.
Hutton was observed acting strangely at a party and by shopowners, who called police and also put him in touch with a social worker.
But it wasn’t enough to save Ms White.
Her charred remains were found in a burnt-out caravan in Yandoit on August 12, 1985.
Justice Osborn said Hutton had not been taking his prescribed medication regularly after he was first hospitalised for schizophrenia in Sydney in 1979. He had travelled to Australia on a working holiday.
Hutton confided to mental health workers in the UK that he strangled Ms White after an argument and described feeling under the influence of an external force, with an electric current running down his arms.
Justice Osborn said Hutton had attacked a woman who had shown him trust and affection and taken away a loving mother, daughter and sister.
“As a result of your actions, you robbed a 14-year-old boy of his mother and blackened his perspective of the world at a vulnerable age,” Justice Osborn said.
While killings within domestic relationships were a blight upon society, “the reality is that your offending will be perceived by most in the community as a tragic outcome of your schizophrenia”, he said.
Hutton pleaded guilty to manslaughter two weeks ago.
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