THE violence Sean Lee King inflicted on his teenage girlfriend the night he killed her was "light years" away from anything he had ever done before.
That was because the now 27-year-old Sydney man was "off his face" on ice when he beat 18-year-old Jazmin-Jean Ajbschitz to death in July 2011, his murder trial has been told.
Defence barrister John Stratton SC told the Supreme Court in Sydney there was evidence King and Ms Ajbschitz had a "turbulent, passionate relationship punctuated with terrible fights".
He submitted it was a much more equal relationship than the crown has put forward during the three-week trial.
And he said while King had been violent towards Ms Ajbschitz before, her previous injuries amounted to a bruise on her arm, a black eye and possibly a lump to her head.
"In terms of the actual injuries (previously) observed on Ms Ajbschitz, the injuries were light years away from the sort of injuries inflicted on Ms Ajbschitz the night she was killed," Mr Stratton said.
He said King acted quite differently that night "because of the extreme levels of ice that were pulsing through his veins".
King has admitted to the manslaughter of Ms Ajbschitz on July 10, 2011, but has denied murdering her on the grounds that he was affected by drugs and didn't intend to kill her.
Crown prosecutor Kara Shead pointed to several pieces of evidence which she said showed King was capable of thinking logically and of forming an intent to kill that night.
She referred to phone calls to Ms Ajbschitz that night in which he threatened to kill her and anyone who was with her, evidence he tried to disguise his appearance as he left the building and how he had told his friend to call triple-zero from a nearby phone box after he'd killed her.
She said King was controlling of Ms Ajbschitz - who was seven years younger than him - and had assaulted her on several occasions before her death.
She described how King injured Ms Ajbschitz "over and over again" in different rooms in her apartment during the fatal attack, which lasted a significant amount of time.
"This wasn't a momentary lapse of judgment," Ms Shead said.
"This wasn't a one-punch momentary thing where the accused snapped and killed her.
"... A struggle occurred. A long struggle in a number of places in which the deceased fought Mr King for her life and she failed in the end."
There was evidence King used up to four different objects to strike Ms Ajbschitz, that he beat her and stomped on her and that he forced her head down the toilet while face was bleeding.
There was also evidence he may have jumped on her body as she lay defenceless on the floor, Ms Shead said.
King, 27, put his head into his hands during parts of the crown prosecutor's address.
The trial continues before Justice Geoffrey Bellew.
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