KRISTI ABRAHAMS
Kristi Abrahams after being sentenced for the murder of her daughter.
Kristi Abrahams reported her six-year-old daughter Kiesha Weippeart missing in August 2010.
She repeatedly denied any involvement in Kiesha’s disappearance, however less than a year later Abrahams was overheard making admissions regarding her daughter’s death in secret police recordings.
The NSW Supreme Court heard Abrahams claimed Kiesha hit her head on a bed about two weeks before she was reported missing from her home at Mt Druitt in Western Sydney.
When Abrahams woke up the next morning, she said Kiesha was not breathing.
Kiesha Weippeart was murdered by her mother.
Several days after her daughter’s death, Abrahams and her partner Robert Smith grabbed a suitcase and travelled to a burial site at Shalvey to dispose of the body.
“Mr Smith dug a hole … tipped the deceased’s body out of the suitcase into the hole, poured petrol on the body and burnt it,” Justice Ian Harrison said as he sentenced Abrahams who pleaded guilty to murder.
While Abrahams’ version of events about what caused Kiesha’s death were rejected by Justice Harrison, he said there was a “total absence of any reasonable explanation for what happened”.
“No motive for the offence has emerged.
“Precisely what happened when the deceased was killed would seem to be known only to the offender and Mr Smith.”
Abrahams was convicted of Kiesha’s murder and sentenced to at least 16 years behind bars.
After pleading guilty to manslaughter and being an accessory after the fact, Smith was sentenced to at least 12 years behind bars.