Michelle’s father recalled the day he found her body. The prosecution said Michelle had suffered a sustained attack before being fatally stabbed in the back with a 20cm knife, by the man whose life she had saved just weeks earlier. In honour of Michelle, her family and friends wore ribbons in her favourite colour, orange. Michelle’s family and friends were in disbelief that she’d been killed by a man they’d trusted.Īfter pleading guilty to murder, Coman faced a presentencing hearing in February this year. Death would have been almost instantaneous.Ĭoman then repeatedly stabbed himself in the stomach. Michelle suffered abrasions and lacerations, suggesting she’d been beaten, and died from a stab wound to her back, which extended “Once I lunged at her, I thought, ‘I’ve got to go through with this, she needs to die now,’” he told detectives. During questioning, he admitted the killing.Ĭoman said that when Michelle had arrived, he’d considered killing himself in front of her but instead had lunged at her with a large kitchen knife and stabbed her in the thigh as she tried to run. Investigators believed he’d stabbed Michelle and his wounds were self-inflicted. He was taken to hospital and put under guard as he underwent surgery.

When the emergency services arrived, they pronounced Michelle and her unborn child dead. “Hun, it’s our worst nightmare,” he cried over the phone. He called an ambulance and then his wife. Fatally stabbedĪshley realised Michelle was dead and believed Coman was, too. Michelle had suffered several stab wounds, while Coman had knife injuries to his stomach. Entering the house, he went into a bedroom, where he discovered his daughter, lifeless, and Coman. At about 7pm, her father, Ashley, drove to the house, where he knocked but got no reply. Her parents grew concerned when Michelle didn’t return and failed to answer her phone. “You can’t take all the money and leave me with nothing, that’s unfair,” she wrote. Earlier that day she’d asked for legal advice and had messaged Coman instructing him to transfer money to her account. It was 9 October, and Michelle left her children with her mum and dad as she headed to her old home. Three weeks after saving his life, Michelle told her parents she was going to collect some clothes from the home she’d once shared with Coman. But he was released, with medication and returned home. He said he thought that Michelle was tracking him through a chip in his brain, that supermarkets were poisoning his food and that he was being spied on, according to a forensic psychiatrist. – just three weeks before he stabbed her to death.Ĭoman spent a week on a mental health ward, where he was treated for depression and substance abuse. She dragged him out of the car and saved his life The same month she found him in his car, which was filling with toxic gas from a pipe attached to the exhaust pipe. By September 2021, she had taken her sons and moved backĬoman went into a downward spiral, yet still Michelle showed him nothing but kindness. She also said that Coman had told her to have an abortion and gave her an ultimatum – the baby or him. She was devastated and confided to a friend that she felt her life was a mess. Michelle discovered he had spent more than $80,000 on a sports car – and had taken the money from the $100,000 they’d saved for a deposit on a house. It was a chance for a fresh start – but Coman continued to let her down. The on-off relationship was turbulent, but she continued to try and make it work and in 2021 she discovered she was pregnant with their third child.

The cruel and unfounded allegations were a result of Coman having fallen asleep at her 30th birthday in September 2019 and wrongly believing she’d taken the opportunity to cheat on him. Michelle continued to show him loyalty, yet he accused her of having an affair with his best friend and suggested one of their sons wasn’t his.

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