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Abe Maddison

INSANE: Controlling jealous man jailed for stabbing murder - The Real Truth

Kerry Lee Whiting will spend at least 24 years in jail for murder and attempted murder. (HANDOUT/TASMANIA POLICE)

A Tasmanian judge has praised the "brave and desperate" actions of a teenager who intervened to save his mother, as his father stabbed her in a brutal crime that ended the life of her new partner. 

In the Tasmanian Supreme Court on Thursday, Justice Tamara Jago sentenced Kerry Lee Whiting, 47, for the murder of Adrian Mayne and the attempted murder of Natalie Harris, at their home in the Launceston suburb of Ravenswood, on November 25, 2021.

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