Category Archives: Australia

Gunn-Britt Ashfield – who let the dog out?

Posted by Wendy on August 15, 2011 2 comments

Eighteen years ago Gunn-Britt Ashfield and her boyfriend, Austin Allan Hughes, spent two and a half hours bashing her six year old son, John, to death with a hammer. They then took him to hospital and blamed his injuries on local teenagers. It did not take long for police to see through their story – nor anyone else who saw her ‘appeal for information’ on the television news after John died. As soon as you saw her face it was apparent she was lying through her rotten teeth.

Appeals on TV 1993

Having spent eighteen years in prison for the murder of her child this creature has been released on parole - nobody was there to meet her except for the media who she ignored. So I ask: Who let the dog out?
Ashfield suddenly ‘realised the significance of her crime’ two years ago…when the possibility of parole became apparent. Interesting that a woman who has shown no remorse whatsoever for what she did to her child – and her four other children – has a change of mind once freedom is on the horizon.

Ashfield released: 2011

She has been banned from going anywhere near her son’s grave and will be electronically monitored and subject to a curfew. Compared to what she did to her child and his sister and brothers, her life has been and continues to be a picnic. Ashfield and Hughes should have hanged for what they did.

Keep looking over your shoulder woman…

 

 

 

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Six year old American ‘pageant queen’ Eden Wood: the most hideous thing about these child pageants is the mothers.

Posted by Wendy on August 1, 2011 6 comments

I thought Australian women – mothers – had a lot more sense than to buy into the hideous spectacle that is the American child ‘beauty’ pageant. You know them; those baby meat-parades where tiny little girls – toddlers, babies – are dressed up like Las Vegas showgirls and trained to vamp it up on a stage in front of a panel of adult judges. These events have moved far beyond the purposes for which their deluded, crazed mothers claim they exist. Little girls as young as four and as ‘mature’ as eight, are spray-tanned, botoxed, their teeth are bleached and capped, their hair is glued with extensions, they cannot eat until after they have ‘performed’ so their little bellies do not ‘stick out’ on stage. This is not about beauty, this not about fun – this is about child exploitation at it’s finest and it has been happening in America for years. Now they are trying to introduce it to Australians and the quest has been a rocky one indeed.

Smile babe - mommy has spent a fortune on this!

Six year old pageant veteran, Eden Wood, was taken to Australia by her mother Mickie to launch the ridiculously named Universal Royalty Beauty Pageant and the entire venture has fortunately failed. Little Eden, an idol for pageant mothers, was to have met her ‘fans’ after mothers paid $50 for their little girls to have a photo op with her. The child became the centre of a publicity tug of war between television current affairs shows, earned an easy $70,000 for her mother Mickie in the process, and then was swiftly spirited out of the country leaving scores of very disappointed mothers and children. Serves them right, for buying into this horrible phenomenon. The natural god-given beauty of childhood should never be put up for judging.

These pageants are not cheap to enter; the mothers spend hundreds to enter their children into a pageant and untold thousands buying the paraphernalia and transporting their children from town to town following the pageant trail. I see nothing beautiful about three year old girls strutting up and down a stage in make-up, high heels and a bikini to be judged by a panel of adult men and women, in fact it is hideous, and why any right-minded mother would allow her child to be paraded in such a way is beyond me. These money-making concerns serve only the pockets of the organisers and deluded dreams of the mothers. That is the most hideous thing of all.

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Gunn-Britt Ashfield gets parole after just 18 years for the brutal murder of her child.

Posted by Wendy on July 29, 2011 No comments

When Gunn-Britt Ashfield and her boyfriend Austin Allan Hughes set about systematically bashing her six year old son, John, to death in 1993 she ignored her child’s pleas for mercy. For two and a half hours as they beat the defenceless little boy with a hammer, among other humiliations, they ignored his cries and screams until he could cry and scream no longer. And this was all carried out in front of John’s siblings who were powerless to help him being so young themselves. Gunn-Britt – or Angelic Karstrom as she now calls herself – was sentenced to a pathetic 19 years in prison, but she is now set to walk free after serving only 18 of those years. Austin Allan Hughes is already enjoying his freedom as he was released from custody two years ago and is now living in the Northern Rivers region of NSW.

Gunn-Britt Ashfield: the fake tears in front of the media, 1993

For many years the Australian media was banned from publishing the name of this woman but few people will ever have forgotten the name or the face of this woman who beat her own child to death in such a premeditated and sustained manner. Nobody will forget her blaming his injuries on an attack by local children, and how she faked distress – unconvincingly – in front of the media soon before the horrible truth emerged. And certainly someone who will not forget is John’s sister Melissa. This amazing young woman has been the voice of the little brother she saw destroyed in front of her own eyes back in that house in Nowra in 1993. Melissa was there as they killed him, she was there when they announced the decision to release Austin Allan Hughes and she was there when the conditions of Gunn-Britt’s parole were read out in court yesterday. Eighteen years has not dulled the pain she felt then and continues to feel at the injustice of it all, eighteen years has not clouded the memories the public still hold about this atrocious crime against a helpless little boy. Nobody will forget six year old John Ashfield and what happened to him.

Melissa Ashfield wont let that happen – when the parole conditions were announced she shouted ‘Rot in hell!’ to the woman who killed her little brother…she said it for John and her family, and she certainly said for us. Still fighting after so long for justice for the little brother she loves – an incredible young woman indeed.

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