'Brutal, cowardly and inexcusable': Man, 41, jailed for 12 years for killing his pregnant girlfriend, 23, by stabbing her in the heart with a kitchen knife

A man has been jailed for 12 years and nine months for fatally stabbing his pregnant girlfriend through the heart with a kitchen knife in 2013. 
Christopher John Anderson, 41, from Sydney, was sentenced on Friday for the manslaughter of Allira Green in a Maroubra unit, after she died from the stab wounds in the early hours of August 3, 2013.

Anderson pleaded guilty in the NSW Supreme Court in November 2015 to manslaughter on the ground of excessive self defence, reported the Sydney Morning Herald.

Allira Green (pictured) died from stab wounds after her boyfriend Christopher Anderson stabbed her with a kitchen knife in a Maroubra unit in 2013

He said he was acting in self defence when Ms Green was stabbed and was trying to save his unborn baby from her ice addiction.
Anderson's defence said Ms Green was high on drugs at the time and had launched at him with a knife.
But Justice Peter Hall rejected the claims that Ms Green had provoked the attack, saying on Friday that the stabbing was 'an extreme and grossly excessive response'.
He said that while the stabbing wasn't premeditated, Anderson had a history of violent assaults and limited prospects of rehabilitation.

Justice Hall also said domestic violence had increasingly become an issue of concern in Australia, describing the attack as 'brutal, cowardly and inexcusable'.
Ms Green was five months pregnant when Anderson fatally stabbed her in the chest, piercing her right lung and going into her heart.

Anderson (left) has been sentenced to a maximum of 12 years and nine months for manslaughter

An agreed statement of facts tendered to the court last November said there had been 'periods of volatility' in the relationship and Ms Green had called police on two occasions in June 2013 to report domestic violence.    
The crown said the pair had a 'volatile relationship' and Anderson had struggled with two of her friends at the unit before she was stabbed. 

Anderson (left) and Ms Green (right) are said to have had a volatile relationship while they were together

Ms Green's (right) mother Nadia Green Simms (left) said she would never forgive Anderson for what he did to her daughter

Nadia Green Simms said: 'We're not happy but at least we know he's admitted to something and my daughter can rest in peace now'

Ms Green's mother, Nadia Green-Simms said her daughter was as 'an amazing girl' who 'lit up the room'.
She said she would never forgive Anderson for killing her daughter.

'That anger will never go away I don't think, I will never forgive him, never ever will I forgive him.' 
Anderson will be eligible for parole in February 2023, after already serving time since the stabbing.



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