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Chilling footage shows ex-boyfriend waiting outside bathroom with hammer before murdering Lilie James


Counsel assisting NSW inquest says CCTV footage of Paul Thijssen in hours before attack at Sydney school ‘not easy to watch’

Lilie James was smiling and happy in the moments before Paul Thijssen used a hammer to murder his ex-girlfriend in a school gymnasium toilet, a coronial inquest examining their deaths has been told.

James’s body was found in the bathroom at St Andrew’s Cathedral school in Sydney on 25 October 2023 after she’d been to water polo training with students.

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Author : Mostafa Rachwani

Publish date : 2025-03-19 05:20:00

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