Vic: 20 years for man who killed ex-lover over abortion

AAP General News (Australia)
02-17-2006
Vic: 20 years for man who killed ex-lover over abortion

A Melbourne man who murdered his former lover .. after she told him she'd aborted their
child .. has been sentenced to 20 years jail.

ANETA POCHOPIEN'S body was found in her car at her Chadstone home by her husband ..

after she finished a nightshift at the nearby Silcraft car component factory on April
14th .. 2004.

A Victorian Supreme Court jury found her former lover .. 24-year-old PISEY PRASOEUR
of Chadstone .. guilty of murdering the 32-year-old mother.

Justice KEVIN BELL has sentenced PRASOEUR to a 20-year jail term with a minimum sentence
of 15 years .. describing his crime as horrific.

The court heard Mrs POCHOPIEN had a five-month affair with fellow factory worker PRASOEUR
.. and told him via text message on his birthday in September 2003 that she'd aborted
their child.

AAP RTV mf/ce/jv/rt

KEYWORD: PRASOEUR (MELBOURNE)

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