Woman faces life sentence for hiring undercover hit man

2-27-2009 Australia:

A Melbourne court has been told a woman who tried to kill a man charged with molesting her daughter has shown no remorse.

The 32-year-old woman, who cannot be named, was found guilty by a Supreme Court jury of incitement to murder her stepfather.

The trial heard that in 2007 the woman's daughter reported she was sexually assaulted by the man - a complaint was made to police and he was charged.

The court heard the woman said her stepfather must die for what he had done to her daughter, but her plan was uncovered when she hired an undercover policeman posing as a hit man.

At a pre-sentence hearing today the woman's lawyer asked the judge to consider a wholly or partly suspended jail sentence.

But the prosecution said the woman had shown no remorse, and told the court the maximum penalty is life imprisonment.

The hearing will continue at a later date. ..News Source.. by ABC News