New photo Irish backpacker who stabbed fiance to death at their Sydney apartment is jailed for five years

 An Irish woman who was in a volatile relationship involving aggression on both sides has been jailed for at least five years for stabbing her fiance to death in Sydney.

Cathrina 'Tina' Cahill, 27, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of David Walsh, 29, who she stabbed once in the neck in the early hours of February 18, 2017, at the Padstow home they shared with two other Irish nationals in Sydney's south-west. 

She was originally charged with murder, but her manslaughter plea was based on substantial impairment due to an abnormality of the mind.

Cathrina 'Tina' Cahill, 27, (pictured in October) was jailed for at least five years on Wednesday

In the NSW Supreme Court on Wednesday, Justice Peter Johnson jailed her for eight years with a non-parole period of five years.

'I am satisfied the psychiatric evidence supports the existence of significant depression on the part of the offender at the time of the killing which arose from the unusual and abusive relationship with Mr Walsh,' Justice Johnson said.

Her earliest release date will be in February 2022 when she is expected to be deported to Ireland.

Mr Walsh's death was just five weeks after Cahill accepted his marriage proposal on New Years Eve in 2016. 

The fatal attack occurred when an intoxicated Mr Walsh launched an unprovoked attack on Mathew Hyde, who had been invited into the home by Cahill and the two other female housemates after they met him at the pub.

Cahill (left) pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of David Walsh (right) in 2017, just five weeks after he proposed to on New Years Eve in 2016

Cahill, who also had been drinking, tried to stop the attack, before she took out a 'large, very sharp' knife from the cutlery drawer and stabbed him.

Another housemate had repeatedly told her to put the knife back, but Cahill said: 'No, he needs to be taught a lesson, it's not fair, look at poor Mathew'.

At the time, she was on a good behaviour bond and the subject of an apprehended violence order issued to protect Mr Walsh, after she was convicted of recklessly wounding him with a glass candle holder in 2015.

In handing down his sentencing, the judge observed that Cahill's proposed marriage to Walsh (left) was 'doomed to fail'

Cahill gave evidence about his repeated violence, including punching strangers and biting her all over her body, his accusations of her sleeping with other men and his deleting texts from her phone.

The judge accepted her account of Mr Walsh's controlling and demeaning conduct, observing their marriage was 'doomed to fail'.

Rita and Daniel Cahill leave court after their daughter was jailed for at least five years

Father of four David Walsh (pictured) was killed by his fiancee at their Sydney home in 2017

 

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