The chilling moment a husband confessed to his wife's murder caught on camera.

Extraordinary footage of a murderer confessing: “We had a fight … she stabbed me and I stabbed her.”

Warning: This post deals with domestic abuse and murder and may be distressing for some readers. 

His eyes swollen and distended.

Sucking on a pain relief whistle the man who murdered his wife as his final act of domestic abuse, confesses.

“We had a fight … she stabbed me and I stabbed her.”

It is a chilling video to watch. A murderer’s confession.

NSW Police have released a video of murdered Christopher Cullen admitting to killing his wife Victoria Comrie Cullen after inflicting upon her sustained systematic domestic abuse.

Cullen’s eyes, in the video filmed on a police officer’s phone, are swollen and closed, a side effect of his body’s reaction to the self inflicted stab wounds.

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In the video Detective Senior Constable Richard McNally is questioning Cullen as he is slumped on the side of the road covered by a foil blanket waiting for an ambulance just after 3.30pm on January 22, 2014.

“Can you tell us what happened today, Christopher?” Senior Constable McNally asks.

“We had a row,” Cullen replies.

“We had a fight … she stabbed me and I stabbed her,” he said.

The officer asks him why there are knives in the car.

“I’m a fisherman.”

“We went to court today regarding a civil matter and we were talking and she started taunting me with her sex life and I lost control and we had a fight. That’s it,” Cullen says.

“Can you verify that the lady on the grass over there is your wife,” Senior Constable McNally asks him

Cullen responds, “Yes.”

On Tuesday Christopher Cullen, aged 51, from Liverpool in the UK was found guilty of the murder of his 39-year old Irish wife, and mother-of-three, Victoria Comrie Cullen.

She was found with her throat cut, her nose was broken and her face was badly beaten in the car park of a fishing club in Sydney’s Taren Point.

Fairfax Media reports that the reason Cullen’s face is so puffy is that one of the stabs to his chest punctured his lung, forcing air under his skin.

Cuellen raped her when “he wanted it.”

During their relationship Cullen subjected Comrie to violent and escalating abuse, at one stage threatening to kill her.

Christina Accrual, who owned the beauty salon where Comrie worked, told the trial that Comrie had complained of a “consistently loveless marriage”, and had said that Cullen raped her “when he wanted it”.

Another friend, Diane Murphy gave evidence saying “Comrie had mentioned to me that her husband had pinned her to the fridge and strangled her ’til she was blue in the face.”

Fairfax Media reports that Comrie was frightened of her husband during their marriage, she had spoken to her family in Ireland on Skype while hidden in cupboards terrified he would hear her. She had told them of how she wanted to leave her marriage.

During their marriage Cullen had become increasingly convinced that Comrie was having an affair with a man named ‘Shannon’. At times he had been heard calling her a “slut” and a “whore” in public.

The ABC reports during the trial evidence emerged that Cullen had gone to the beauty salon where she worked and held up signs saying his wife was sleeping with clients. He is said to have believed the man she was having an affair with was named Shannon.

In October 2013, Fairfax Media reports, when Comrie came home late from a night out Cullen was awake. He grabbed her, pushed her up against a wall, held her by the throat, and threw her out of their Sylvania house.

She was left without a bank account, struggling to make ends meet and care for her three children.

Police successfully applied for an AVO on her behalf.

The court heard that there was no person called Shannon, but that she had formed a relationship with a man, 25-year old Nick Baster who she had met in a nightclub one month before Cullen threw Comrie out of their home.

Mr Baster and Ms Cullen had a two-month relationship, but that ended.

The day of her murder.

On the morning of her death the former couple had attended a civil case about their car that had gone Comrie’s way.

Her husband had gone to her apartment. Neighbours reported hearing screams from the garage – the scene where blood was found.

The jury heard police believed Cullen punched her in the face and threw her into the boot.

He then drove to a fishing shop in southern Sydney – with his wife in the boot of his car.

Terrified.

Cullen was caught on CCTV buying two long-bladed fishing knives, labelled “guaranteed sharp” and a change of clothes – a black shirt. He then drove to a Taren Point fishing club and stabbed her 18 times.

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The court shown text messages Cullen sent his sister Christine at about that time.

They read “Sorry can’t cope with the lies no more. thank for everything. take kids home to england.”

A second said “Tell the kids I love them.”

Comrie Cullen’s three children now face life without their mother, and knowing their father murdered her in cold blood.

Her children now face a life without their mum.

Her friend Renee Jomaa said outside court on Tuesday that it had been “a harrowing time for those close to Comrie and her wide circle of friends”.

“Her death is devastating for us and it will leave a profound impact on our community,” she said.

“Many of her loved ones are too overwhelmed to be with us today.

“The trial detailed Comrie’s brave battle as a victim of domestic violence and a terror she did not escape.”

Comrie Cullen’s three children aged 5, 7 and 11 are now cared for by her family.

Their father will be sentenced for their mother’s murder next week.

 

If this post brings up any issues for you, or if you just feel like you need to speak to someone, please call 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732) – the national sexual assault, domestic and family violence counselling service. It doesn’t matter where you live, they will take your call and, if need be, refer you to a service closer to home.

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