Sef Gonzales
| Sef Gonzales | |
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| Born |
16 September 1980 Baguio City, Philippines |
| Criminal penalty | Life imprisonment x 3 |
| Criminal status | Incarcerated |
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Sef Gonzales (born 16 September 1980) is a Filipino Australian who was convicted and sentenced in the Supreme Court of New South Wales to life imprisonment for the murder of his father Teddy Gonzales, aged 46 years, his mother Mary Loiva Josephine, aged 43 years, and his sister Clodine, aged 18 years.
Sef Gonzales was born in Baguio, Benguet, Philippines to Teddy and Mary Loiva Gonzales. After the 1990 earthquake destroyed their hotel business (his father rescued him when the hotel collapsed), Teddy Gonzales and his family emigrated to Australia, where Teddy worked as an immigration lawyer. The Gonzales family appeared to be close-knit: the parents were strict and devout Catholics who had high hopes for their children. Later, court evidence suggested that the Gonzaleses enforced harsh discipline on their children when they did not meet their parents' high expectations. In particular, they had hoped Sef would perform well academically, and have a career in medicine or law.
After secondary school, Gonzales attended the University of New South Wales, where he stayed in Warrane College for a time. Performing poorly in his courses and at risk of expulsion, he tried to cover up his academic failure by falsifying his results, but when this was discovered by his parents they threatened to withdraw certain privileges, such as the use of his car. He had also argued with his mother over a girlfriend of whom she disapproved, and his family had threatened to disinherit him. This, along with Sef's desire to inherit the family's fortune (about AU$1.5 million), were established by police as his motives for killing his parents and sister.
On 10 July 2001 at about 4:30 p.m., Gonzales entered Clodine’s bedroom in the house at 6 Collins Street, North Ryde, where she was studying. He was armed with a baseball bat or similar item and with two kitchen knives he had taken from a knife block in the kitchen. It was found that he compressed Clodine’s neck trying to strangle her, struck at least six separate blows to her head with the bat, and stabbed her many times with one or both of the knives. He inflicted five major stab wounds to Clodine’s neck and two major stab wounds to her chest or abdomen. The cause of Clodine’s death was the combined effect of the compression of her neck, the blunt force head injuries and the abdominal stab wounds.
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