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Teacher jailed after 'snapping' and stabbing principal
Kim Ramchen was sentenced to 15 months after admitting he stabbed the principal with two knives and injured an assistant principal during the attack.
- On Monday, Kim Ramchen was sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment for stabbing Keysborough Secondary College principal Aaron Sykes in December, after pleading guilty to assault with a weapon and intentionally causing injury.
- Ramchen claimed he 'mentally snapped' after learning his teaching contract would not be renewed; defence barrister Amelia Beech described a 'catastrophic mental health crisis' causally connected to the attack.
- Armed with a 10cm knife from the staff kitchen, Ramchen attacked Sykes before being disarmed; he returned with a larger chef's knife until assistant principal Matthew Sloan and other staff restrained him.
- Magistrate Tim Bourke granted a 'significant discount' for the guilty plea, sentencing Ramchen to 15 months' jail; having served 160 days pre-sentence, he will be eligible for parole after eight months and 14 days.
- Describing the offense as 'serious' in a school environment where children were present, Bourke noted Ramchen's traumatic childhood: his mother disappeared when he was four, and his father died when he was 14.
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