{"id":30799,"date":"2016-08-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/father-stunned-by-comments-about-his-murdered-son\/"},"modified":"2016-08-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T00:00:00","slug":"father-stunned-by-comments-about-his-murdered-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/father-stunned-by-comments-about-his-murdered-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Father stunned by comments about his murdered son"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Court reporter Sean Fewster has spoken on FIVEAA breakfast about a father\u2019s shocked response to evidence given by the mother of the boy who murdered his teenage son.<\/h3>\n<p>Mark McPherson was in court to hear Elizabeth Humbles \u2013 whose son Liam shot and killed Lewis McPherson in a random attack in 2012 \u2013 give evidence at an inquest into how her son obtained a gun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI blame myself, of course I f***ing do,\u201d Mrs Humbles told the court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI blame myself every f***ing day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s done. It\u2019s over. The boy is dead for f***s sake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fewster said Mr McPherson was stunned by the evidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo speak for Mark for a moment,\u201d Fewster told David and Will on Thursday, \u201che turned to me after that and said, \u2018Oh is that how it is? It\u2019s over is it?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the McPhersons, it isn\u2019t over. It will never be over,\u201d Fewster said.<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/277725569&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe overall impression that came from Elizabeth Humbles\u2019 evidence was why isn\u2019t anybody thinking about me? Why isn\u2019t anybody thinking about us? We\u2019ve been through hell. Everybody focuses on Lewis McPherson, on his mother, on his father\u2026 nobody talks about what we went through,\u201d Fewster said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose sort of personal pronouns \u2013 \u2018my, our\u2019 \u2013 kept coming into the evidence again and again. There seemed to be a lack of empathy for what the McPhersons are going through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David Penberthy said Liam Humbles needed to cooperate with the inquest into how he obtained a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis gutless little bastard\u2019s locked up in jail at the moment, and prison\u2019s meant to be about redemption,\u201d Penbo said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s meant to be about going into the hall of mirrors and looking into the core of your being and asking yourself hard questions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurely part of the redemption process for this sod should be to actually cooperate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe doesn\u2019t appear anywhere on the witness list,\u201d said Fewster.<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/xenophon-s-census-stunt-could-hurt-sa\"><strong>HOW NICK XENOPHON\u2019S CENSUS STUNT IS DAMAING SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/eddie-betts-joins-some-elite-company-this-weekend\"><strong>EDDIE BETTS JOINS SOME ELITE COMPANY THIS WEEKEND<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court reporter Sean Fewster has spoken on FIVEAA breakfast about a father\u2019s shocked response to evidence given by the mother of the boy who murdered his teenage son. Mark McPherson was in court to hear Elizabeth Humbles \u2013 whose son Liam shot and killed Lewis McPherson in a random attack in 2012 \u2013 give evidence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-30799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Father stunned by comments about his murdered son - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/father-stunned-by-comments-about-his-murdered-son\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Father stunned by comments about his murdered son\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Court reporter Sean Fewster has spoken on FIVEAA breakfast about a father\u2019s shocked response to evidence given by the mother of the boy who murdered his teenage son. 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