Ex-wife's last words before 'chilling' murder

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: A “cruel and well-planned execution” is how a judge has described a man breaking into his ex-wife’s home and shooting her at close range in front of her daughter.

As she gasped for air and asked for help, Keith Goodbun shot his estranged wife three more times.

“The murder of Molly Goodbun was a chilling, and deeply shocking crime,” Justice Helen Wilson said before handing down a sentence of 41 years and six months in jail.

In October 2016, Goodbun drove 250 kilometres to Maitland, northwest of Newcastle, armed with a rifle and knife, determined to kill his former wife.

When Molly Goodbun heard a noise at her front door, she opened it and was shot in the chest.

Pleading with her daughter Bionca to help her, she said: “Sit me up, sit me up, I can’t breathe, he shot me!”

“I hope she f***ing dies. She has caused me enough hurt and pain,” Goodbun said, before turning to Bionca and saying: “Get the f**k out of here or you’re next!”

Bionca kissed her mother’s arm and said, “I have to go, I love you”, before Goodbun shot Molly another three times in the head.

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The judge described the killing as “violence of a high order”, sentencing Goodbun for more than four decades.

“Very pleased with his sentencing, actually quite shocked at how much time he did get,” Molly’s cousin Rosienne Johnson said.

A murder which involves planning and such gratuitous violence would normally warrant life in jail.

The only reason Goodbun didn’t get the maximum sentence is because he is not regarded as a risk to the community – the only person he did pose a risk to is dead.

Keith Goodbun will be 91-years-old at his earliest possible release.