Thread: The Beautifull Bitch - Woman who blackmailed couple over photos of dying child

Siti Kamal is appealing against her jail sentence, which her lawyers have called "manifestly excessive".

A woman who blackmailed a grieving couple over a lost phone containing photos of their dying daughter is appealing against her jail term, saying the sentencing judge was "overwhelmed" by the crime.

Key points:

• Siti Kamal is appealing against her three-and-a-half year jail sentence
• She tried to extort money for a lost phone from the parents of a dying child
• Her legal team says the judge made a mistake by saying the crime was "amoral"

Siti Kamal, 26, from Malaysia, has been in protective custody since she was arrested for seeking money from Jay and Deanne Windross while their 11-month-old daughter, Amiyah, was dying in Melbourne's Monash Children's Hospital in 2019.

Days earlier, Ms Windross had left her phone in a bathroom at the Chadstone Shopping Centre. It contained thousands of photos of her baby that were not backed-up.


Kamal pretended to have the phone and threatened to delete the images if she did not receive $1,000.

The threats occurred in the hours before Amiyah died, with Mr Windross pleading with the blackmailer over text to give them more time.

"My baby is in her last minutes," Mr Windross said.

"Can we discuss this tomorrow? She's about to leave us."

"How?" Kamal asked.

Decision to appeal a 'kick in the guts'

Later Kamal gave the couple, now separated, an ultimatum: "Please transfer me money I will return u the phone, or maybe I just sell it."
Last year, Kamal was jailed for at least three-and-a-half years.


But today she appeared in Victoria's Court of Appeal where her legal team argued her sentence was "manifestly excessive" and the presiding judge had made a mistake by finding her crime was "amoral".


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