Thursday, March 13, 2008
if you think that I am a touch Bruce obsessed…
A woman snapped and stabbed her partner to death after he objected to her listening to Bruce Springsteen music, a court has been told.
The Supreme Court in Brisbane today heard Karen Lee Cooper, 50, used a long-bladed kitchen knife to stab 49-year-old Kevin Watson once in the chest because she “just got tired” of him bossing her around.
She pleaded guilty today to manslaughter and was sentenced to eight years in jail.
The court was told the pair had been drinking at their rented home at
Cedar Vale, south of Brisbane, on July 8, 2006, when an argument broke
out over Cooper’s choice of music.
Defence lawyer Greg Maguire said Cooper experienced a “brain snap” and
ran to the kitchen and grabbed a knife, which she used to stab Mr Watson
after he said he didn’t want to listen to a Bruce Springsteen CD.
“I mean, who the hell doesn’t like Bruce Springsteen, for God’s sake?” she later told arresting police.