On March 17, 2015, Sean Price left his home intending to kill.
He wrapped a kitchen knife in a sock and placed it in a black bag, which he filled with CDs.
On second thought, he added a clean T-shirt to change into later. He was already anticipating being covered in his victim’s blood.
He wanted to stab someone – anyone – that day, because he “just hated society”.
“I just thought I’m going to stab and I’m going to hurt these f***ing dogs,” Price says of his plan. “So I thought originally, look for rich areas. I thought rich areas, these f***ing c***s, they don’t care unless it happens to them, unless it’s in their society.”
Catching the 724 bus from his home in Albion, Price arrived at Doncaster Park at 6.35 PM.
17-year-old Masa Vuk0tic left her nearby home only five minutes later. Planning to walk around the park, she carried only her front door key and mobile phone. She was listening to music through her headphones. She didn’t know she had been spotted by Price.
“This chick was on the other side of the road … she’s like started talking to a bird like f***ing Snow White,” Price told police.
“I thought she’s … dressed like f***ing all yuppie.
“I just thought f*** this, this is the moment. This one just ended up being the one. I just f***en had to kill her.”
Price ran up to Masa, brandishing his kitchen knife, and pushed her into the bushes. She pleaded with him not to hurt her, reportedly telling him, “I’ll do anything you want.”
Price, uninterested in her bargaining, stabbed his victim multiple times to ensure she was dead because “otherwise it would have been a f***ing waste of time.”
The deed done, Price ran from the scene, using a tap at a nearby house to wash the blood from his face and arms and pulling his clean T-shirt over his bloody one.
Then, around 7.10pm, he boarded a bus bound for home, where other passengers observed him to be sweaty, nervous and breathing hard.
But Price’s appetite for blood had not been satisfied, and early the next morning, he left his home intending to murder again.
It was only because a stranger gave him $50, he told police, that he decided not to stab anyone that day.
Two days after the murder, Price punched a man in the head and stole his mobile phone. He then spent time researching the investigation into Masa’s murder in the Brimbank library.
Realising it was only a matter of time before police closed in on him as a suspect, Price made a failed, desperate attempt to steal a man’s BMW from the street. The owner of the vehicle fought him off, and Price was forced to formulate a new plan.
It came to him almost immediately: he would rape a woman before the police had time to catch him.
“I thought f***, I’m going to jail for this one. I’ve just got to take a chick. I’m going to be stranded for the rest of my life. Who cares, no one’s going to give me a Noble prize; I’m going to get a life sentence for this. I thought I’ll bust a nut just before I f***ing go to jail forever.”
He grabbed a female passer-by but she fought him off, attempting to gouge out his eyes with her fingers. Price managed to grab her in a chokehold and lie on top of her, rubbing himself again her, until a customer ran out of a nearby shop and screamed at him to stop.
Moments later, Price walked into a police station and confessed to Masa Vukotic’s murder.
In court today, almost exactly a year after Masa’s brutal murder, Price was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum sentence of 38 years.
Price was pictured giving photographers the finger as he was driven away from the courthouse to a prison he will not leave for many, many years.
Top Comments
I don't hope that he rots in jail, i don't hope that the other prisoners sort him out, I hope that he receives help. What he did was despicable, but we have to ask why, why would he do something like this? No one is born just wanting to do something like this, either they are mentally ill or they are a product of their environment, in any case they are more deserving of our sympathy rather than our hatred. This is obviously a deeply troubled young man and I hope that in jail, (yes a place where he will receive 3 meals a day and shelter because all humans deserve basic human rights no matter what) he may be able to receive help and treatment and learn to feel remorse for his actions.
Too late.