Australia - Phil Walsh, 55, slain, Somerton Park, SA, 3 July 2015 *Insanity*

[Brightbird]

This is just terribly sad. The coach of the Adelaide Football Club has been stabbed to death, and his son is charged with his murder. The Adelaide Crows are a top league AFL team here. It's obviously going to be devastating for his family, but also for the whole football community who are in the middle of the AFL season.

Adelaide Crows coach Phil Walsh is dead, his wife is in hospital and his son has been charged with murder after a domestic dispute at their South Australian home.

Walsh, 55, was found with multiple stab wounds at his family's Somerton Park home at 2am on Friday.

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-ne...phil-walsh-found-dead-in-home-20150703-gi44nj

 

[knowledgethirsty]

Very sad.... an absolute shock

 

[Amee]

:cry:

RIP Phil

Thinking of Meredith, Quinn, extended family and all the Football community xx

:rose:

 

[Amee]

Defence lawyers for the 26-year-old made no application for bail and he will face a court on September 15.

The son of the Crows coach reportedly remained under heavy sedation at the mental health ward at Adelaide’s Flinders Medical Centre.

http://www.9news.com.au/national/20...ollowing-alleged-domestic-dispute-in-adelaide

 

[FruitTingles]

How is the mum doing?

 

[Brightbird]

How is the mum doing?

I heard on the news that she has knife wounds to her leg, but is otherwise okay. Physically okay, of course. I can't imagine how she would be feeling otherwise.

 

[Mandala]

Taxi driver witness has come forward.

http://mobile.news.com.au/sport/spo...er-of-phil-walsh/story-fno61i58-1227428621220

 

[Mandala]

His daughter is also "lost her hero". This is a senseless tragedy. RIP Phil 🏉🏆

http://m.theaustralian.com.au/news/...facebook-tribute/story-e6frg6nf-1227429165391

 

[OkieGranny]

Earlier this month:

http://thenewdaily.com.au/sport/2015/12/11/cy-walsh-pleads-guilty-phil-walsh-murder/

Cy Walsh has pleaded not guilty to murdering his father, former Adelaide Crows AFL coach Phil Walsh.

He made the plea by reason of mental incompetence...

He will now face the Supreme Court on February 1 and has been held at a psychiatric facility in Adelaide since being charged with murder.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

From September:

Cy Walsh not guilty of murdering Crows coach Phil Walsh due to mental incompetence

Cy Walsh pleaded not guilty to murder by reason of mental incompetence and at the last hearing the prosecution indicated it would accept that plea.

Justice Ann Bampton formally made a ruling that Cy Walsh was not guilty of murder by reason of mental incompetence.

She found the objective elements, or facts of the offending, proved.

That meant the court was satisfied Cy Walsh killed his father, but that he was not criminally responsible for his crime because of his mental state.

Cy Walsh will stay in psychiatric facility for killing father

Phil’s wife, Meredith, said she and her daughter were left heartbroken but she would continue to love and support her son.

She said there was a lack of information available to families like hers, calling for increased mental health research and awareness.

“We now all live the devastating consequences of a mental illness that was not understood,” she said in her victim impact statement.