Murder sentence for man who pushed disabled wife into pond in wheelchair

Peter Rex Dansie was found guilty in December of the murder of his wife Helen, 67, by pushing her wheelchair into a pond in Veale Gardens, in the Adelaide parklands, in 2017.

He will be sentenced on Thursday with prosecutors previously calling for the 71-year-old to get a longer non-parole period than the mandatory minimum of 20 years.Dansie has also been granted leave to appeal his conviction with a hearing to be held in May. During his trial, the court heard he told police he briefly climbed into the pond after his wife fell in, but got out to call triple zero.

Dansie said he tried to keep her head above water and manoeuvre her to the edge of the pond in an unsuccessful rescue attempt. But prosecutors argued it was no accident that Mrs Dansie's wheelchair ended up in the pond, and that her husband's story was implausible.

Life sentence no release, seems appropriate. Callus act!

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