An elite Sydney school headmaster calling Lilie James's suspected murderer "an absolute delight" and "not a monster" has shocked a prominent domestic violence awareness advocate.
Her former short-term boyfriend Paul Thijssen is suspected of murdering her. His body was recovered after an extensive police search at Diamond Bay Reserve in Vaucluse.Dr Collier said the "extreme violence was inexplicable, incomprehensible, unimaginable" before describing Thijssen, who said he knew during his tenure as head of St Andrew's between 2010 and 2022, as a "fine student, a prefect, a role model".
"He was not a monster; rather, in the last five hours of his life, he committed a monstrous act which was in complete contradiction to what everyone who knew him observed in the rest of this short life. Ms Contos said there was a pervasive culture of entitlement in private school boys, that was being reinforced by the people around them.try and 'other' people who perpetrate violence because by doing that, we're allowing people who exhibit normal behaviours in other forms of life to go unnoticed without accountability.
Yvette Vignando, chief executive of anti-domestic violence organisation Mary's House, commended Dr Collier for trying to reach young men, and make sense of the situation through his faith."One thing that stood out to me was it was quite jarring to read someone describe, after such an horrific murder, the alleged perpetrator as an 'absolute delight', that was not helpful," Ms Vignando said.
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