‘Trusted a monster’: mother lays bares her demons at sentencing for daughter’s murderer

Emerald Wardle was murdered by her boyfriend who called triple-zero and said he had killed a demon

The mother of a young woman killed by her psychotic boyfriend who feared she was a demon has told a court that he is the real monster.

She was not a demon, she was the absolute light of my life," Emerald Emmy' Wardle's mother, Tania, told the NSW Supreme Court in Newcastle on Thursday during the sentencing hearing for Jordan Brodie Miller.