CASE: The State of Tasmania v Jassy Anglin and Michael Anglin (13 April 2015); Janet Lois Mackozdi (2018) TASCD 274
WARNING: Disturbing content
In the middle of winter, on 23 July 2010, Janet Lois Mackozdi was left to spend the night in an uninsulated shipping container. At the time, she was 77 years old and weighed only 40kg, she was frail and could not walk, she had dementia and had diminished mental capacity, she had flu like symptoms and was hallucinating. Overnight,
the temperature in the shipping container dropped below minus 1 degree Celsius.
Janet did not survive the night.
At the time, Janet was in the care of her daughter Jassy Anglin and her son-in-law Michael Anglin. It was the Anglins who had decided that Janet would spend the night in the shipping container and were later charged with her death.
