Hany Papanikolaou, 39, climbed the fence of Marjorie Welsh’s home in Ashbury, west of Sydney, before attacking the elderly woman on January 2, 2019. Mrs. Wells did not wait for her cleaner, but greeted her with a smile, a few minutes before Papanikolaou started hitting her with her own cane. He hit his elderly client until he broke the stick – forcing her to find another – before throwing several ceramic pots at Mrs. Welsh and grabbing a knife from a drawer. Marjorie Welsh (pictured) was brutally beaten and then fatally stabbed by her trusted cleaner at her Ashbury home in Sydney inner-west on January 2, 2019 Hany Papanikolaou (pictured) climbed into Mrs. Wells’s back fence and surprised her in the garden a few minutes before he started hitting his client with a cane. Papanikolaou stabbed the 92-year-old several times in the chest and abdomen with Ms. Wallis – who survived the attack – describing her attacker as “absolutely savage”. She stopped only after the elderly woman thought of activating a medical warning necklace that her family had set up for her a few weeks ago. Frightened by the loud siren, Papanikolaou snatched the knife he had used to stab the old woman and left Ashbury’s house in her car, reports The Australian. Ms Welsh was left dead with many fractures, deep cuts in her abdomen and severe bruises that made her spend countless days in the intensive care unit. Her devastated family and hospital staff agreed that her chances of recovering from the brutal attack were slim and that she was given morphine. Ms Welsh gave two interviews to police while she was in the hospital, calling the perpetrator “Hanny the housekeer” and describing the horrific attack in detail. When asked if he could think of a reason for the attack, he replied: “It would be quiet if I could.” “There are usually logical reasons for things happening in this world, but I can see no logic in that.” Papanikolaou (pictured) stabbed the 92-year-old several times in the chest and abdomen before leaving Ashbury’s house and sending a series of messages to her husband The elderly woman also said that she made her house “murderous” with “special gates”, without knowing that she would never return to her favorite house of the “dream world”.
The 92-year-old died six weeks after the attack at Balmain Hospital.
Papanikolaou was found guilty of murder by the New South Wales Supreme Court in February and sentenced to 22 years with a 15-year suspension on May 27. What her client did not know was that her cleaner lost $ 400 in pokies at the Canterbury-Hurlstone Park RSL club before she was surprised by her appearance. Papanikolaou was a regular gambler, but she made sure that this habit never prevented her family from being able to afford it. He later told the court that through gambling “I made myself calm”. This particular summer morning she made several withdrawals from an ATM and left shortly after running out of bank account in the miserable $ 11.76 amount. Money was a controversial issue in her marriage after her husband Nick, 53, was fired from his job in the telecommunications industry.
The cleaner had spent several hours in the pokies at the Canterbury-Hurlstone Park RSL club (photo) and lost $ 400. Papanikolaou left RSL for just $ 11. 76. She recently gave birth prematurely, with her lawyer arguing that at the time of the attack there were “known patterns of a vulnerability causing a major depressive class”. The cleaner slept just four hours the night before and turned and turned in the heat of summer after her air conditioner broke down. Papanikolaou left RSL at around 10 a.m. and drove to Peace Park, a piece of greenery that entered Mr. Wells’ garden. She decided to jump over the fence and was greeted with affection by her elderly client, who was completely unprepared for the savage attack that would soon follow.
In the hours after the attack, Ms Wells told police that her cleaner had always been “charming” and really believed they were friends. She sent her husband a series of disturbing texts after she left Ashbury’s home in which she said “please, I will die, I think it’s better for me” (pictured, a mock-up) The photo shows the scene of the crime at the home of Mrs. Welsh Ashbury where she was brutally beaten by a woman who had called her home and trusted her Papanikolaou introduced the 92-year-old to her youngest child, who was given a $ 50 gift by her elderly client. The couple chatted frequently as Papanikolaou cleaned the house with Papanikolaou later describing Ms Wells as a “beautiful woman”. She sent her husband a series of disturbing texts after she left Ashbury’s house. “Please, I will die, I think it’s better for me,” he wrote in a message. Another wrote: “You will never believe me again, please. You will never believe me forever. Better to die. Please watch out kids, I’m sick of this life. “Sorry, deep inside me.” In May, Judge Robertson Wright said the murder was “unplanned and impulsive” and found that the cleaner wanted money from the house to cover gambling losses. He found that Papanikolaou was not suffering from a serious depressive illness at the time, but had some symptoms of depression and anxiety. Mrs. Wells and Papanikolaou (photo) chatted frequently as she cleaned the house with the younger woman later describing Ms. Wells as a “beautiful woman.” “The death was a great human tragedy especially for her family and for everyone else affected by this sad issue,” she said. The judge found that the cleaner intended to rob and then kill her elderly client. Angela MacLeod, one of her two daughters, had previously stated that their mother was someone who could achieve whatever she wanted in life. “Life was not always perfect for mom … but it was strong, smart, affectionate, protective, all those things you would want in a mom,” he said. “We have always been very proud of her.”