GUILTY Australia - Tyrell Cobb, 4, beaten to death, Gold Coast, 24 May 2009

[Bohemian]

Tyrell Cobb’s father opens up on shocking death
news.com.au
James Law
DECEMBER 19, 2017 3:33am

‘THE father of four-year-old Tyrell Cobb, who died as a result of a blow to his stomach, says his son’s mother and her partner should “rot in hell” after being sentenced for his manslaughter.’

Tyrell Cobb died after sustaining shocking injuries. Picture: Channel 7
Source: Supplied

‘Speaking to ‘A Current Affair’ on Monday night, Tyrell’s father Jason Cobb slammed the former couple as “disgusting people”.

“If they’re responsible, they can rot in hell,” he said.

Mr Cobb was particularly hurt by footage of Scown smiling and laughing as he walked out of the court in October having been handed a suspended sentence.

“That’s like a slap in the face, basically,” he said.

“If you want to smile like that, have some remorse, but he had none.”’

‘Despite her guilty plea, Strzbak maintained in court that she did not hurt her son.

For Mr Cobb, these details are inconsequential.

“They can argue he said, she said; it doesn’t matter. They were both there, they’re both responsible,” he told ACA.’

‘Strzbak sobbed and shook her head in the dock as evidence was read out in court on Monday, but Mr Cobb said he had no sympathy for her after hearing the “pretty devastating” facts.

“If she gets what she deserves, I’ll be happy. She can go to jail and I’ll be happy,” he said.

“Not happy, but happy for Tyrell.”

Mr Cobb choked up as he explained how he would remember his son as a “happy little boy, playful, cheeky”.’

Read more at:

http://www.news.com.au/national/que...h/news-story/4d2fedfaaf4f955744c3a72c61845f8c

 

[Bohemian]

'Anyone who kills a child should get life': Outrage as mother of slain four-year-old Tyrell Cobb could be freed in just FOUR YEARS
By Daniel Peters For Daily Mail Australia
07:25 AEDT 19 Dec 2017, updated 08:06 AEDT 19 Dec 2017

‘Child protection activists have slammed a judge's decision to allow a mother that killed her four-year-old son to walk free from jail in just four years.’

‘'Anybody that kills a child either by virtue of their own hand or as a bystander should get life,' children's charity Bravehearts founder Hetty Johnston told the Courier Mail.

'Manslaughter or murder is irrelevant. It's child killer.'’

‘Criminologist Terry Goldsworthy said it was time for the justice system to 'catch up with reality'.

'It seems like we are more concerned about one-punch killers and domestic violence than we are about these child killers,' he told the Courier Mail.’

‘Justice Applegarth said it was easy for a legitimately concerned public to perceive Strbak as being 'some kind of monster' but the tragic fact was her case was only 'the tip of an iceberg of child abuse'.

'It's very easy to see her as a one in a million when we have a big problem in this community with the care of infants and young children,' he said.

'The tragic fact is that there are tens of thousands of young mothers who can be frustrated and distressed and verbally abuse their infants or physically abuse them.

'Unless we as a community learn from this case, it's inevitable there will be another case like it.'’

Read more at:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rage-Activists-slam-light-jail-sentences.html

Related:

'Rot in hell': Tyrell Cobb's dad speaks out

 

[Bohemian]

Revealed: The crucial text messages that caught out four-year-old slain Tyrell Cobb's killer mother
By Daniel Peters For Daily Mail Australia
11:05 AEDT 19 Dec 2017, updated 16:36 AEDT 19 Dec 2017

‘A mother who killed her four-year-old son was caught out by police after sending a string of text messages to her brother as investigators closed in on her.’

‘'I'm just concerned that if they think I lied,' Strbak wrote to her brother in a text message shown to the court, the Courier Mail reported.’

‘Details revealed in her Supreme Court bail file showed Strbak was concerned police would learn she had left Tyrell with her partner Matthew Scown on the night he died.

Strbak, who used cannabis on a 'daily basis', had gone to buy the drug and left Tyrell alone. She had earlier denied that was the case.

'Im just concerned that if they think I lied ... that thed (sic) wonder if id be lieing (sic) about other things, which im not,' she texted her brother.

'I just don't want it to be a bad reflection of my parenting cause I no (sic) im not a bad mum and that I did everyting (sic) I could for tyrell he was the best little boy ever.'

Her brother replied with: 'You've lied half your life ... you know how to lie.'’’

‘Strbak case to be reviewed by DPP

• Queensland's attorney-general says the Director of Public Prosecutions will review the sentence handed down to child killer Heidi Strbak.
• The 34-year-old was sentenced to nine years' jail in the Brisbane Supreme Court on Monday for the manslaughter of her four-year-old son Tyrell Cobb in May 2009.
• But she will be eligible for parole in four years, in October 2021. Opposition Leader Deb Frecklington on Tuesday said Attorney-General Yvette D'Ath needed to review the sentence because it didn't appear to meet the community's expectations.
• Ms D'Ath said the case was "incredibly distressing" and her heart went out to Tyrell's loved ones.
• "The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions will review the sentence imposed on Tyrell Cobb's mother," she said in a statement on Tuesday.
• "As Ms Frecklington should know, the ODPP reviews each sentence imposed by the court to consider if the matter should be the subject of appeal."
• Ms D'Ath also warned the new opposition leader and all other politicians to "be careful about publicly commenting on court matters".
• Earlier this year Ms D'Ath asked the Queensland Sentencing Advisory Council to review the sentences of people convicted of the death of a child.
• "The Sentencing Advisory Council asked for 12 months to conduct the review," she said.
• "I understand the community wants to be heard on this important issue and encourage people to have their say through this process."

Read more at:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...text-messages-caught-Tyrell-Cobbs-mother.html

 

[JerseyGirl]

Gold Coast mum seeks less jail for son's death

A decision on Strbak's appeal will be handed down at a later date.

Gold Coast mum seeks less jail for son's death

 

[Grapey]

She is absolute scum of the earth. I know this from personal experience. Put it down as fact

 

[Bohemian]

‘Queensland mother Heidi Strbak has failed to have her jail sentence for killing her four-year-old son Tyrell Cobb reduced.’

Heidi Strbak refused appeal of son's manslaughter sentence

 

[Janopal]

UNSOLVED MURDER: MYSTERY OVER WHO DELIVERED FATAL BLOWS TO BOY, 4

Twelve years after Tyrell Cobb died, it is still not known who delivered the two fatal blows which killed the four-year-old boy.

Lea Emery, Gold Coast Bulletin
January 27, 2021 4:56
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GOLDCOASTBULLETIN.COM.AU0:52

IT is still not known who delivered the two fatal blows that killed a young Gold Coast boy 12 years ago.

Tyrell Cobb died in May 2009 with 70 bruises on his body and after vomiting “ninja turtle green” for two days.

It was determined the four-year-old died from two blows to the stomach – one more than 24 hours before his death and one as recently as 30 minutes before his death.

Tyrell’s mother Heidi Strbak and her partner Matthew Scown have both been convicted of manslaughter.

Deputy state coroner Jane Bentley on Wednesday handed down her findings into the matter after years of investigations and court battles, agreeing with determinations made in the Brisbane Supreme Court last year.

“Those blows were inflicted on him by either Matthew Scown or Heidi Strbak,” Coroner Bentley said in her findings.

“His death was contributed to by the failure of both those persons to obtain medical treatment for Tyrell.”

She found the injuries were inflicted between the afternoon of May 22, 2009 and May 24, 2009.

“The Supreme Court determined that there was a real and reasonable likelihood that Mr Scown inflicted those injuries and it could not be established beyond reasonable doubt that Ms Strbak was the person who inflicted them,” Coroner Bentley said.

“Both Mr Scown and Ms Strbak failed to obtain medical treatment for Tyrell after he became ill on the morning of 23 May 2009.

”The boy suffered a number of injuries in the weeks before his death – including a fall from a slide, crushing his finger in a toy box and four days in hospital for an infection.

On May 22, 2009 Tyrell attended kindergarten and left with no sign of abdominal injuries.

Tyrell’s maternal uncle Daniel Allen said he saw the little boy vomit “ninja turtle green” three of four times in an hour the night he died.
Mr Allen left the Biggera Waters unit with Strbak for 24 minutes and when they returned Scown had called triple-0.

Tyrell was taken to Gold Coast University Hospital and by 10pm he was dead.

Scown and Strbak were charged with murder in 2015 after further investigations.

In October 2017 Scown was sentenced to four years prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter.

Strbak was found to have inflicted the fatal blow in December 2017 but that ruling was overturned by the High Court.

In December last year she was sentenced to five years prison for manslaughter and that it was unclear who delivered the fatal blow.
SOURCE:
No Cookies | Gold Coast Bulletin

 

[Janopal]

She is absolute scum of the earth. I know this from personal experience. Put it down as fact

Half truth is even mote dangerous than a lie. A lie you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long - Anurag Shourie

Belive me, this is the only beginning. Heidi is not guilty of anything.

HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA 18 March 2020 STRBAK v THE QUEEN [2020] HCA 10
Today, the High Court unanimously allowed an appeal from the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Queensland.
Under the common law of Australia, during a criminal trial (save in rare and exceptional circumstances), no adverse inference can be drawn by a jury (or the judge in a trial without a jury) from the fact that the accused did not give evidence.
In this context, the principal issue before the Court was whether the decision in R v Miller [2004] 1 Qd R 548 ("Miller"), which permits a sentencing judge, at a hearing of disputed facts following a plea of guilty, to more readily accept evidence or draw inferences invited by the prosecution in the absence of contradictory evidence given by the offender, was wrongly decided.
The appellant and her partner, Matthew Scown, were jointly charged before the Supreme Court of Queensland with the manslaughter of the appellant's son, Tyrell.
Tyrell was aged four years and three months when he died as the result of injuries inflicted to his abdomen within 48 hours of his death.
Mr Scown and the appellant were both alone with Tyrell for intervals during the 48 hours before his death.
The fatal injuries were inflicted by one of them.
Tyrell was very unwell in the two days preceding his death.
Neither the appellant nor Mr Scown sought timely medical attention for Tyrell.
Mr Scown pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the agreed basis that he was criminally negligent in failing to seek medical assistance for Tyrell. The appellant also pleaded guilty to manslaughter, however, her matter was set down for a hearing to determine the factual basis on which she was to be sentenced for the offence.
The prosecution's primary case was that the appellant inflicted the blunt force trauma that caused Tyrell's death.
The prosecution's alternative case was that the appellant failed to seek medical assistance for the child. The appellant denied the primary case but acknowledged liability on the alternative basis.
The appellant did not give evidence at the sentencing hearing.
At the outset of the sentencing judge's reasons, his Honour stated that he was permitted to more readily accept evidence or draw inferences invited by the prosecution in the absence of contradictory evidence from the offender, reflecting the principles enunciated in Miller.
His Honour took into account the appellant's failure to give contradictory evidence before making findings adversely to her in relation to a number of contested facts, and concluding that she had inflicted the blunt force trauma causing Tyrell's death.
The appellant was sentenced to nine years' imprisonment. The appellant applied for leave to appeal to the Court of Appeal against the sentence, contending that the sentencing judge erred in having regard to the fact that she had not given evidence and inviting the Court of Appeal to depart from Miller.
The Court of Appeal held that the sentencing judge had not applied the principles in Miller and refused leave to appeal.
By grant of special leave, the appellant appealed to the High Court.
The High Court unanimously found that Miller was wrongly decided and that the sentencing judge had applied the principles stated in Miller to the determination of at least some of the contested. facts.
Given that a plea of guilty is a formal admission of each of the legal ingredients of the offence, and that the offence of manslaughter may be committed in a wide range of circumstances of varying implications as to culpability, the Court held that the appellant's plea of guilty to manslaughter did not relieve the prosecution of the obligation to prove the facts of its primary case without assistance from her.
In the result, the appeal was allowed, the appellant's sentence quashed, and the matter remitted to the Supreme Court of Queensland for the appellant to be re-sentenced according to law.

 

[wrestlingpigs]

Belive me, this is the only beginning. Heidi is not guilty of anything.

At the very least, she is absolutely guilty of failing to get her beautiful son medical attention. He could have been saved.

 

[scapa]

At the very least, she is absolutely guilty of failing to get her beautiful son medical attention. He could have been saved.

Agree. I'd say the blame in this case spreads pretty evenly between the two "carers," either or both of whom may have abused and struck "the fatal blow" and neither of whom bothered to get competent medical help during the days in question.

"70 bruises on his body" and "vomiting “ninja turtle green” for two days" tells the story here, IMO. And the sentences handed out seem risble.