After she stopped breathing, he called triple zero and told the operator he had killed her.
“Help me, help me,” he told police who arrived at the house shortly after.
A candlelit vigil was held in 2023 at Parliament House for Bedford mum Tiffany Woodley, who was allegedly murdered by her ex-partner on August 7.Credit: Holly Thompson
“She needs help, please help her.”
Tiffany was lying in a pool of blood, badly beaten.
She had 42 soft tissue injuries to her head and face and missing and fractured teeth.
Eight of her injuries were circle shaped, matching the end of the towel rail that had been used “in a prodding type movement” on her head, the court heard.
Damjanovic told police, “yes, I am a murderer” and said he would burn in hell for what he had done to her.
“He said he just wanted her to be alive,” the prosecutor told the court.
He then told police he had injected speed that morning and that Tiffany had been smoking cannabis and had been “picking on him”.
He told them he had kicked her but that she had fallen and hit her head on a towel rail.
Damjanovic pleaded not guilty to Woodley’s murder, and was due to stand trial on Monday but moments prior, his defence team said he would be changing his plea and admitted causing the mother’s death.
Family members and friends of Tiffany Woodley at the scene in 2023.Credit: Rebecca Peppiatt
At the time of her death, Woodley’s aunt Rosalie Miller-Kickett paid tribute to her niece, describing her as a loving mother and sister.
“She was never a violent person,” she said.
“She wasn’t a nobody. She was so gentle, everyone loved her.”
Woodley was a former Narrogin High School student who went on to work at a pharmacy in Morley.
On Monday her mother, Meretta Kickett sobbed quietly with other members of the family as the confronting details of her daughter’s violent death were read out in court.
Damjanovic will be sentenced in March next year.
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