A Melbourne woman who fatally stabbed her husband in her sleep on a camping trip in 2023 has had her murder charge dropped.
The 47-year-old woman pleaded guilty to charges on the basis that the murder was a symptom of a sleep disorder.
is a sleep disorder that causes people to experience sleep terrors and sleepwalking.
Murder charge
In September 2023, the couple were on a camping trip in Victoria’s remote Mount Disappointment with friends.
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Emergency services were called to the campground after reports a man had been stabbed. The wife was charged with murder, but insisted she had no memory of the crime.
The trial for the case was due to begin in March. However, at an administrative hearing this week, the Victorian Office of Public Prosecutions announced the case would be discontinued.
Prosecutors
In a statement to TDA, a spokesperson for the Victorian Office of Public Prosecutions said the decision to “discontinue charges are never made lightly, particularly when they involve a.”
“In this case, after carefully reviewing the opinions of several experts it was determined that the elements of murder could not be made out beyond reasonable doubt.”
