Murder Most Foul – July 2018

Trudi had wanted to bring Aaron to
the house to train him up in BDSM, she
said. She had told Trudi she didn’t mind
“as long as she kept it away from me so
I didn’t have to see or hear if any sex or
anything happened.”
“I went and watched The Simpsons
season seven,” she added. “I hadn’t
intended to fall asleep, but I didn’t even
get past an episode.” Trudi woke her at
2 p.m. to say Aaron had gone. “I saw
Aaron’s bag on the bench and I asked
if he’d left it there. She said he had but
that she’d be seeing him at college the
next day.”
That evening, they had steak for
dinner, smoked cannabis and watched
Game of Thrones on television. Jemma
had no idea, she said, that a murder had
taken place in the house.

When challenged about the patch in

the carpet, she replied that Trudi’s cat

had urinated there and Trudi had cut it

out. “I was furious. I argued with Trudi

saying she’d only been at my house two

weeks and she felt she could cut some

carpet out.”

She denied she had confessed to

killing Aaron to her work colleague as

they stacked shelves. She said she made

up stories for him to show they were still

friends after she had turned him down.

“He liked me, but I’m not interested in

people in a sexual way.”

Jemma told the court that Trudi

was not the gentle, motherly soul she

looked. Trudi had told her – with pride

• that “she was putting medication in a
  friend’s coffee because she was going to
  try to make her commit suicide.”
  “I asked her why she would do that. I
  said it was ridiculous, you don’t poison
  your friends. I told her that’s not OK
  and I took the pills off her.”
  When arrested, Jemma had lied to

police. She told them she had taken her

motorbike to Mundaring Weir the day

Aaron was killed. Why had she lied? She

said it was because Trudi had told her

to lie. “Aaron’s death was her BDSM

thing and she didn’t want me to have

involvement with something that was

hers.”

“Jemma murdered Aaron Pajich for

the euphoria and exhilaration of it,”

Prosecutor James Mactaggart told the

jury, dismissing her convoluted defence.

The jury agreed. Trudi and Jemma were

found guilty of murder after two-and-

a-half hours’ deliberation.

In February 2018, Justice Hall

sentenced both women to life with a

minimum period of 28 years. They

looked shocked at the sentence. “You

killed for your own pleasure,” he said.

“There is nothing to suggest either of

you had the slightest regret about what

you had done. He was a very young

man, only 18; his life in many ways was

only just beginning. No sentence, no

matter how long, could possibly reflect

the value of his life.”

Jemma’s stepmother said Jemma’s

book had been a problem for her. “At

the beginning I was, ‘fair enough you

want to write a horror story,’ but I didn’t

like the contents of it. She had always

had an obsession with serial killers but

she said it was a way of venting her

frustration of what happened when she

was a child.”

Do the slaughterfests in modern

horror films, full of visceral gore,

unduly influence the young? It’s a

long-standing debate with no easy

answer...

Jemma Lilley – she murdered “for

the euphoria and exhilaration”

“He was a very young

man, only 18, his life just

beginning. No sentence,

no matter how long,

could possibly relect

the value of his life”

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