Bekkie-Rae Curren-Trinca from Warrnambool, Victoria, was beaten to death by her partner Paul McDonough in November 2019 after being released from prison on bail for an unrelated offense. A young mother who was brutally bludgeoned to death by her drug-addicted boyfriend was planning to call it quits and had even warned her friends that she might kill her in chilling final text messages.
The mother of a two-year-old girl had been in contact with domestic violence support services half a dozen times and was ready to report McDonough to the police. But Ms. Curren-Trinca’s devastated family believes “the system failed her”, revealing that emergency services told them her injuries were “the worst incident of domestic violence they have ever seen”.
“The senseless, brutal, and dehumanizing nature of her death has left us traumatized,” said Demi Trinca, the victim’s sister. “The vivid memories I have of my sister lying in the hospital screaming as her brain slowly dies have left a permanent mark on my psyche.”
Bekkie-Rae Curren-Trinca Age
Bekkie-Rae Curren-Trinca was 28 years old.
Bekkie-Rae Curren-Trinca Beaten to death by partner
The court heard that McDonough, 40, had attacked Ms. Curren-Trinca after returning home on November 26, 2019, from prison to the apartment they shared to discover that she had packed up and was leaving him. She had been released on bail for non-weapons-related offenses.
Neighbors reported seeing McDonough chase Ms. Curren-Trinca down the street as she tried to escape around 5:30 p.m. She was limping badly and seemed upset. McDonough forced her back to her house where he brutally beat her unconscious.
Neighbors reportedly heard banging and slamming doors for half an hour. “Come back later,” McDonough told a concerned neighbor as he came to check on them. The next morning, McDonough called emergency services from a nearby pay phone, telling them there was “a lady who needed help” at his address.
When found, Ms. Curren-Trinca’s body was covered in bruises, her hair was matted with blood, and both of her black eyes were swollen enough to open. Hours earlier she had told a friend that she feared “he would kill her one day,” the Herald Sun reported.
In the weeks before her death, she had also sought help at a domestic violence shelter. In a chilling text message to McDonough a week before he ended her life, Ms. Curren-Trinca wrote: “You hurt my face and eye and could easily kill me.”
“I get mad because my daughter needs me and you could easily take that away from her.” In other confrontational messages, McDonough had pleaded with her to come home, promising not to hit her. “Come home baby, I promise I won’t start with you,” she wrote.
She replied: “I don’t like jerks who approve of or act violently towards women, I don’t deserve it…” McDonough was initially charged with intentionally causing serious injury after Ms. Curren-Trinca was flown to the hospital. Royal Melbourne Hospital in critical condition. But he was charged with murder when he went off life support days later, on December 4.
McDonough pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter on December 8 of last year. His attorney told the court that McDonough, who turned himself in to police a day after the beating, was suffering from a “vast number of complex mental health issues” at the time, including schizophrenia. He will be sentenced at a later date.
Kirsty Trinca, the victim’s sister-in-law, told 9News: “The only reason she was at the house that day was because he thought she wasn’t going to be there.” He “was locked up and then he came in on Monday and he was released on bail. The system definitely failed him.
The victim’s sister, Demi Trinca, said McDonough had shown “no remorse”. There is regret that he has been caught, but that is all. She added: “There are so many repeat offenders in the world who get away with it over and over again.”
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