domestic violence in Australia

17 Sep: Domestic violence – women licensed to kill by Australian courts

Anna Marshall On March 3, 2006, a woman who shot dead her husband from a “sniper’s nest” at their central Victorian property walked free from an Australian court after being charged with the murder of her husband. Not only was it murder, it was, according to the prosecution, a cold-blooded and calculated execution.   Claire Margaret MacDonald walks free from  court after killing her husband On 30 September 2004, primary school teacher, Claire Margaret MacDonald, aged 39 at the time, put on a camouflage outfit and rubber gloves, grabbed her husband’s high powered rifle and hid in the bushes near where the family’s Land Rover was parked in a paddock on the couple’s property in Acheron in Victoria, and waited for her husband to arrive. She lured him to the spot by telling him the Land Rover’s battery was flat. She loaded five bullets into the magazine and kept a…