Man Who Fatally Stabbed Estranged Wife's Partner 86 Times Gets Life Imprisonment

A man, who stabbed his estranged wife's new partner 86 times after posting on Facebook that he will meet the victim "in hell," has been jailed for life.

Osmond Greig, 43, was sentenced to jail by Brisbane’s Supreme Court on Tuesday for the gruesome murder of 37-year-old Daryl Corcoran in November 2016, The Sydney Morning Herald reported. Greig pleaded guilty to three domestic violence charges of burglary, breach of domestic violence order and murder.

On the day of the murder, the police were called to Greig's estranged wife Maya's house around midnight following reports that three children, all believed to be under the age of 10, were found near the house with blood on them.

The responding officers found Corcoran in a pool of blood inside the house. Greig, who was present at the scene, was bleeding from stab wounds after he tried to kill himself. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.

Prosecutor Dzenita Balic told the court Greig broke into the house armed with an ax and two knives. Before that, he had posted on Facebook "No RIP for Daryl Corcoran," adding that he would "meet him in hell."

The court was told Greig smashed a window with an ax before entering the bedroom where the couple slept. The noise woke up Corcoran and at least one of the three children in the home.

Greig dropped the ax outside but carried the knives when he entered the bedroom where he began attacking Corcoran. One of the children then rushed into the bedroom armed with a plastic sword and told his father to stop. However, Greig repeatedly stabbed Corcoran in the face, throat, abdomen and back in an “anger-filled” attack, 7News reported.

"He [the child] was eventually pushed out of the room by the mother and the stabbing continued," Balic said.

Maya, who was married to Greig, told the court her and her children’s lives had been irreparably damaged.

She said her children were scarred after seeing her covered in blood. "They tried returning to the house during the attack to help me on two occasions and the last thing my children saw was me being taken away by police in the car and their father in an ambulance and our once quiet street looking like a scene out of a horror movie," Maya said, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.

While sentencing him, Justice Ann Lyons said it was clear Greig intended to kill Corcoran.