A young lesbian from Perth who is serving a minimum of 24 years in jail after she and her girlfriend brutally killed a teenage girl and dumped her body in a wheelie bin has been denied a reduced jail sentence. The pair bludgeoned 16-year-old Stacey Mitchell with a concrete block, strangled her with a chain and then videoed her blood-splattered bedroom and semi-naked body. After she died, the pair kissed each other over the body, reported ABC News. 21-year-old Jessica Stasinowsky's lawyers appealed her sentence in the Western Australia Court of Appeal, claiming the murder was not in the worst category, and also that she was young and had prospects for rehabilitation. However, Justices Christopher Steytler and Carmel McLure decided that she had "very little prospect of rehabilitation" and the "brutal and callous" nature of the murder might well have resulted in an even longer sentence, reports the AAP. "I am of the opinion that the crime committed by the appellant was so high in the scale of crimes of wilful murder that, for this reason, it justified a strict security life imprisonment," Justice Miller concluded.
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First published: Friday, 23rd January 2009 - 3:01pm