Religious axe killer jailed

[rooboy]

And you think you guys have problems with fundamentalists...

A man was jailed for 18 years after he went berserk and killed a man when he and his wife told him they were atheists.

Ashley John Appoo, 40, pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court in Brisbane today to the manslaughter of John Leslie McDonald and causing grievous bodily harm to his wife Alois during a frenzied axe attack on November 18, 2001.

Appoo, a drifter, who was heading to Goondiwindi in far south west Queensland, was hitchhiking near Woodford, north west of Brisbane, when Mrs McDonald picked him up and took him home for lunch.

He spent two days drinking and socialising with the McDonalds before Mrs McDonald told him she was an atheist.

Appoo, a proud Christian whose bible was one of his most precious possessions, went berserk and began punching her, and turned on Mr McDonald when he tried to intervene.

Appoo then went outside and grabbed an axe and began attacking the couple.

He stomped on, punched and kicked Mr McDonald in the head and stomach before bludgeoning him with the axe in the head and leg.

He sustained severe internal injuries and died, sitting next to his wife, as Appoo smashed up their house before police arrived.

Mrs McDonald sustained fractures to her jaw, ribs and ankle and and axe wound to her leg.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Religious-axe-killer-jailed/2004/12/23/1103391878844.html

[miss_kitty]

1. I love it

when Christ moves them to kill.

Now THAT'S Irony!