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September 14th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
AAP
A former US marine accused of murdering a Sydney nurse who gave him bad job references used a technique for killing enemy sentries, a jury has been told.
Crown prosecutor Mark Tedeschi QC said Walter Ciaran Marsh had practised the technique on his wife and brother-in-law, before slitting Michelle Beets’ throat to her backbone and stabbing her eight times in the chest.
Mr Tedeschi said Marsh later told his wife they would no longer have any problems with bad references from Ms Beets and “from here on their lives would get better”.
He was opening the crown case on Wednesday at the NSW Supreme Court trial of Marsh, 50, a US citizen who has pleaded not guilty to murdering Ms Beets, 57, on April 27 last year.
The nursing unit manager at Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital was killed on the verandah of her Chatswood home.
Mr Tedeschi said Marsh, who lived with his Vietnamese wife at west Chatswood, worked as a nurse at the hospital for 12 months.
But in February 2010 Ms Beets told Marsh his contract would not be renewed, which would affect his wish to gain permanent residency in Australia, he said.
“The crown case is that, on the surface, the accused took this news with equanimity, calmly and without any rancour,” Mr Tedeschi said.
But he alleged Marsh was “actually extremely upset” and the “person he was most upset with was the person who was his boss”, Ms Beets.
Marsh made 21 applications for nursing jobs and came to the view that he was being rejected because Ms Beets was giving him bad references, Mr Tedeschi said.
“He believed Michelle Beets was standing in his way, preventing him from getting employment in Australia,” he said.
“During all this time to a number of people … he expressed deep hatred and resentment towards Michelle Beets.”
Mr Tedeschi alleged Marsh then decided to murder Ms Beets and started watching her home and ringing from public phone boxes to see if she was there or not.
His wife would testify that Marsh began practising opening and closing a flick knife to “get the movements just right” and practising the murder technique on her and her brother, he said.
The murder technique was one “every single Marine was taught in boot camp” to kill an enemy sentry, Mr Tedeschi added.
Before the stabbing, Marsh allegedly switched off the electricity meter box to disable a sensor light.
“He also went around the side and broke a glass panel in the door to make it look like a break-in that had gone wrong,” he said.
Marsh then allegedly came up behind Ms Beets when she arrived home and murdered her.
But, Mr Tedeschi said, Ms Beets managed to call out and her cry was heard by neighbours and two people walking their dog, who saw a man running away carrying a backpack.
Marsh later met his wife after she finished work and as they walked home allegedly told her he had killed Ms Beets.
“He told her a number of important details about the murder that he could not possibly have known unless he was the killer,” he said.
“The accused told her that, in his opinion, he had done a very professional job.”
Mr Tedeschi will continue addressing the jury on Thursday.
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