A mother sat in the front seat of a car while her son and sister-in-law had sex in the back seat because she was the only one with a valid license to take them to their secret rendezvous in a housing commission parking lot, relatives said. . have revealed.
Sue McCulloch, a great-grandmother, lived with her son David McCulloch and his wife, Jacinta King, and their four adult children in a house in Ulverstone, northern Tasmania, before their lives were turned upside down on March 28.
That night, Sue got into the car and drove to the house of her youngest son, Jamie McCulloch, with Jacinta as a passenger. He then drove them both about 16 miles to a government-owned block of flats in Devonport, where his grandson had been living.
David and Jacinta’s son had given the keys to his grandmother because he was away and he thought she might want to stay there, away from the family home.
“Mum saw that as an opportunity,” he told Daily Mail Australia. She then explained that Jacinta had ordered her grandmother to drive to the unit and stay in the car while she had sex with Jamie, and Sue reluctantly obeyed.
The situation turned into a disaster when David realized what was happening and drove to the unit block, crossed the parking lot, crashed into his car and violently unleashed a shovel on himself.
While David is serving time in prison for assault, Jacinta and Jamie have been living together in a miserable caravan parked in the driveway of a suburban house.
Pictured: Jamie McCulloch and Jacinta King outside the caravan they share in Devonport.
Jamie McCulloch is pictured with Jacinta King near the Salvation Army on Thursday.
Sue McCulloch (pictured) was asked to facilitate her daughter-in-law’s affair with her youngest son.
When approached for comment on Wednesday, Jamie described the situation as “pig-washing” but was otherwise unable to articulate a coherent sentence.
When asked if he knew if his brother was in jail, Jamie laughed and murmured: “I know.”
On Thursday, they drove together to the Salvation Army store in Devonport and seemed disappointed when it closed.
The violent altercation on March 28 only ended when a concerned resident called the police.
The resident told Daily Mail Australia she saw Sue’s car outside that night, but didn’t realize what was happening until David grabbed the shovel and started hitting the vehicle.
She remembered him shouting: “You’re nothing but a dog, you damn dog, you’re meant to be my brother, how could you root for my wife?”
Sue closed the car doors and Jamie continued having sex with Jacinta, until David opened the car and started throwing punches.
David then turned to Sue and shouted: ‘You’re not a bloody git, you’re just a whore’ and pushed her into a wheelie bin.
Jamie tried to run away and hide in some nearby bushes, but David found him and started hitting him with the shovel, the resident recalled.
Jacinta King (pictured) stayed with her brother-in-law after the March 28 incident.
Jamie McCulloch is pictured outside the caravan he shares with Jacinta King, his sister-in-law and new girlfriend.
David McCulloch and Jacinta King are pictured on their wedding day in 2018
“And not the flat end (of the shovel),” he added. “The sharp side, right on the neck, side and leg, saying he wanted to kill him, and then he turned to Sue and said he wanted to do the same thing to her.”
“It looked like he was trying to decapitate him.”
Police arrived and David was charged with a number of assault-related offences, while his wife and brother were taken to Mersey Community Hospital with minor bruises and lacerations.
During his police interview, David expressed extreme frustration over the incident and stated that his brother “deserved it.”
Speaking to Daily Mail Australia, David’s son expressed the same sentiment.
Referring to his parents, he said: “A man loved a woman and she didn’t love him back, end of story.”
He said the affair had been going on “for years” and that his father “finally realized it and worked it out.”
“To me they are dead,” he said.
“I don’t want to have anything to do with them, my brothers don’t want to have anything to do with them.”
Pictured: The parking space where Jacinta King and Jamie McCulloch had sex in a parked car, with Sue McCulloch in front.
Police raided David and Jacinta’s property following their arrest on March 28.
They found an unsecured homemade pistol in the laundry room and about 240 grams of cannabis in zip-lock bags. He later confessed to having sold and supplied the drugs.
He pleaded guilty to a series of assault charges, as well as possession of cannabis and a homemade firearm.
During sentencing at Burnie Supreme Court last week, Judge Tamara Jago accepted the circumstances surrounding the violence were “confronting”.
She said: ‘The betrayal of his wife and brother, and the apparent acquiescence of his mother, must have been disturbing, and while one can appreciate that that would result in a level of distress and frustration, it in no way excuses what then he did.
‘However, it places his behavior in a specific context.
“This was not premeditated or planned behavior, but rather a spontaneous reaction upon discovering a difficult situation involving a breach of trust.”
The judge said McCulloch intended to cause grievous bodily harm to his brother but, given the minor nature of his injuries, it was unlikely that most of the blows with the shovel would actually connect with Jamie’s body.
They were high school sweethearts and had four children together.
He continued: “The actual damage caused was moderate.”
‘There is no doubt that what he did was exceptionally serious and that his use of the shovel had the potential to cause serious harm, but the context in which the violence was committed was, in all the circumstances, morally provocative.
“You reacted in the most inappropriate way, but I accept that it was an emotional response to the circumstances you had discovered.”
She was satisfied he was not at risk of reoffending and took his early guilty pleas into consideration, but said the sentence had to reflect the seriousness of the offenses and serve as a general deterrent.
He was sentenced to three years in prison, retroactive to May 7, when he was taken into custody.
The last 18 months of his sentence will be suspended on the condition that he does not commit a crime for two years.
He was also fined $1,000.