Son relives dying father's distress call
The teenage son of a man allegedly stabbed to death by his wife broke down in tears yesterday as he listened to a recording of his father's triple-0 call being played in court.
The teenager, who cannot be named, was giving evidence in the Supreme Court over the death of his 55-year-old father Chaim Kimel at their Rose Bay home in August 2006, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Mr Kimel's wife Danielle Stewart, 32, is accused of stabbing her husband twice in the abdomen after a fight over a computer password.
The teenager, now 18, told the court how he was listening to the couple arguing in another room when he heard what sounded like his father being "punched".
When he came out of his bedroom, the boy saw his father hunched over in the hallway gripping his side and wailing in pain.
"I've never heard my father scream like that before," he was quoted in the Daily Telegraph as saying.
"I could see blood all over his hands, all over his shirt."
Mr Kimel allegedly then tried to flee the home, but collapsed on the hallway before making a desperate emergency call for help.
"I've just been stabbed, OK, please get the ambulance," Mr Kimel said in the recording played yesterday.
"I can't breathe . . . I've been stabbed . . . really badly."
Mr Kimel's son is then heard grabbing the phone and begging for help to come quickly.
Head in hands, the teenager wept yesterday as the recording was played in court, the newspaper reports.
Ms Stewart, who has pleaded not guilty to the murder on the grounds of self-defence, allegedly screamed about being locked out of the family's computer as Mr Kimel laying dying on the floor.
Mr Kimel's son told the court how his father had password-protected some computer files and websites.
Ms Stewart had often threatened to end the four-year relationship, the teenager said.
The case continues.
