Man Sentenced for Fatally Stabbing Son Over Family Photograph

Justice Jennifer Davies described the event as ‘unusual and very tragic.’
Man Sentenced for Fatally Stabbing Son Over Family Photograph
A police vehicle and tape in Cairns, Australia, on Dec. 19, 2014. Ian Hitchcock/Getty Images
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John Steele and his son David were looking through photographs of their former partner and mother, Jennifer Cole, who had died from cancer a day earlier.

Soon after, David Steele was dead on the floor from a single catastrophic stab wound to his neck.