Case 130: Joe Cinque

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At the beginning of 1995, Joe Cinque joined his mates for a night out at a club in Newcastle called The Brewery. There he met 22-year-old Anu Singh...
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[@mouseyman]

How is it that after two large dinner parties with their friends and neighbors, not a single person attempted to phone police or, at the very least, speak to Joe and Anu about their "plans"? With friends like that, who needs enemies? Edit: 4 years?? Not guilty of murder. What do you have to do in Australia to be convicted of murder? I'm shocked. What an injustice. Edit 2: Her accomplice was let off completely?!! 🤯

[@ttaylorboi]

Im pissed too. This one is mad.

[@mrangusw.vanderbilt2123]

Another amazing podcast from the casefile crew. I stumbled across your podcasts around 6 months ago & have listened to every episode. Some of the crimes I semi recall although most are completely new to me. I have trouble sleeping and play them from my iPhone when I go to bed, usually fall asleep half way through so listen to the remaining half the following night. Anu Singh got off so lightly, served only 4 years !!! what a misjustice.

[@kerriemorris3155]

Same meditation for me n always fall asleep so listen again. I'm Irish the Elaine o hara episode 🌷 was very sad x

[@rogerpattube]

What I learned from this one: Heed your family and friends' views on your partner. Drink beer and other drinks from cans / bottles you have opened yourself and not left unattended. Develop your crazy detector radar. Give greater weight to partners character than their looks Learn how to identify codependency in yourself. Stay away from nightclubs Do not have a relationship with someone you met at a nightclub. Do not have a relationship with someone who was unfaithful to their current partner with you. If you're going to leave-go now! Do not delay. Law school attracts crazy types.

[@kiki1573]

What in the cheese and crackers is wrong with these people? They go to gatherings just to see if Anu would really kill Joe, seemingly leaving disappointed when Anu didn't follow thru?! Everyone around her knew she was sick and nobody even bothered to at least speak to the cops? I once told my boyfriend I want to drink myself unconcious (liquor) after a heated argument, 30 minutes later police is beating down my door. WTF!

[@mrangusw.vanderbilt2123]

cruel world

[@YAS-dn6xn]

What kind of friends are these? All of them should be put in prison.

[@bellesiee141]

Exactly what I was thinking!

[@e3jen153]

This is probably the saddest story I've heard. That poor poor Man. Fancy having all your "friends" knowing that you were at risk and not helping you. Its beyond sad. My heart aches for his family. RIP Joe. 💔

[@bill9729]

What is wrong with these people?

[@Clay64]

So I’m Australian and I’ve been wanting to ask this question for a while, do our sentences seem like a joke compared to other countries? 4 years non parole for taking another persons life is wrong.

[@lisabelle7553]

Yes absolutely! I watched Australian True Crime investigation and every episode leaves me frustrated. The Greenough family Massacre was the worst.

[@outlawJosieFox]

I am also reminded of that horrid man who scared the girl into the balcony and then she fell. He got away with murder as well! Then I saw a case only yesterday where an Australian man supposedly shot his wife when snake hunting in a garage and never charged !! So yeah actually, now you come to mention it

[@rogerpattube]

​@@outlawJosieFox He didn't scare her on to the balcony and he didn't force her to climb the building.

[@gabriellahedarv1782]

Well, yes and no. Compared to the US, every western country has silly sentences. I’m Swedish and our justice system is a joke, so I’d probably feel right at home in Australia. I’m used to shaking my head at everything crime and punishment.

[@sushmitaram5632]

Look up Indian cases. Its bizarre. Its a sad world.

[@OOoKarmaoOO]

Easy to accept all responsability when you're free.

[@xWILZTAx]

Another case of the laughable australian law. Pathetic sentence, absolutely disgusting. 😠🤬

[@naomiledger1374]

I'm stunned that after all the 'Chinese whispers' that took place amongst students over weeks about Anu's plan for Joe, that Joe never got wind of it or nobody said anything to Joe! ALL the ppl who were aware of her plans, whether they believed she was serious or not, and who turned up to the house to gawp at Joe, are guilty of negligence, at the very least, imo. Anu should rot in gaol and never get out. Her best friend got away with murder. Hopefully she gets her just desserts in due course. RIP Joe.

[@truthylucy7068]

This woman is a piece of work! She got away with MURDER! So did her idiot friend! Their dinner party friends all bear responsibility for doing NOTHING! Not one had the common sense to let Joe know what the psycho was planning! Two dinner parties were given as farewells to end Joes life & psychos life. Yet not one guest thought it was concerning enough to alert Joe or the authorities? This never should have happened. There were numerous times this could have been stopped! This is the most unbelievable case of a group of people who stood by & basically watched! I feel so sorry for Joes family. This miscarriage of justice is appalling! This psychopath literally got away with murder. Thanks to this judges ruling!

[@Thompson8200]

Nobody in this story does anything that makes any sense except her parents.

[@outlawJosieFox]

Hmm not sure about them since she clearly needed mental health care way before this!

[@sasukesbussy7101]

The parents allowing her mental state to get so bad despite being health practioners isn’t right either. I mean the girl was talking about bugs under her skin and her head being attached to a different body and was bullimic for years and they didn’t seem to be in any rush to get her emergency mental help.

[@johnirish2969]

The fact that the girlfriend is free and alive today sickens me just as much as Joes' "friends"

[@texastea5686]

My son is almost 18, i always hopes he never meets Needy and mentally ill girls. these caretaker type of boyfriends are the ones that get hurt the worst. rest in peace, Joe.

[@richardblades6246]

Wow! This story is so disturbing. Excellently told Casefile! What’s going on with her friends??!

[@KittyPee61]

Ikr. Supposedly intelligent /uni students??!

[@richardblades6246]

Plasticine Cardigan Many of whom went on to practice Law!

[@KittyPee61]

@@richardblades6246 Yes. It's staggering. I wonder too, at the naivete of the victim even.

[@richardblades6246]

Plasticine Cardigan Totally!

[@sasukesbussy7101]

Nice to know you could just murder someone with heroine after multiple attempts and only get 4 years prison. Wtf??? Those poor poor parents :(

[@outlawJosieFox]

Every single one of these so called friends is a disgusting feral creature. I am half way through and now hoping that they all got into a lot of trouble. Seems like these girls were privileged and spoiled beyond belief and that the people around them (including sadly the victim) pandered to their selfish bs.

[@texastea5686]

One of the most infuriating podcasts ive ever heard. Un-fucking-believable. Wherever shes at now, i hope Anu gets her payback.

[@tjmulligan3086]

The part that bugs me the most is all the people at the dinner parties knowing she planned to kill him, but not one warned him.

[@rogerpattube]

Just when you think Casefile's cases can't get any more bizarre comes this serious injustice. Of all Casefile's offenders, I have the least sympathy for this one.

[@r0mcat]

I live just near where this happened.Nobody could understand it.The town was stunned bc it's a really nice safe place. RIP Joe we remember you

[@louiseleite3866]

I hope all involved who failed to help will never to have a restful night ever again, including the judge.

[@veganandlovingit]

Why would they care now? they were all assholes and always will be.

[@jesusfreak996]

4 years??? It is a disgrace😢😢😡😡

[@brandyjean7015]

"Warm, gentle, eager to please".... Add: easily mislead, spineless, follower & enabler.

[@malovela]

Off topic: It makes me angry when people who have two or more children say that one of them is "The most precious thing I have" or the like, when there's even the slightest possibility that their other child(ren) will hear or read it. I don't understand how parents can allow themselves to hurt their children like that.

[@ttaylorboi]

This is very wrong. She is super guilty and deserves to be in prison.

[@melmazing3993]

So basically Anu was a crackhead.

[@IrishMountainGoat47]

Fantastic girlfriend Fantastic friends Fantastic judge

[@kskssxoxskskss2189]

What the heck? What happens to her next fiancé, since she gets out at such a young age?

[@pikeman80]

How did all those friends find out and Joe not here of the plan from any of them?

[@wiebkescantick947]

Wow 😮!!!!!

[@carolball5764]

The bloody cheek of the murderer being able to study and gain doctorates in “Criminal Law”? Oh the irony!!

[@bogdiworksV2]

Makes you trust the system, doesn't it?

[@outlawJosieFox]

Damn......so in Oz it would be acceptable for you to see someone having an obvious heart attack in the street and not call an ambulance because they are not related to you ????? That's feral and uncivilized.

[@Jolenesmart1980]

$250 -- half a gram of heroin is about $40 , I know as I was on it for twelve years

[@carolball5764]

The bystander effect ? Should be renamed “The Donut Effect”!

[@teresa0788]

Can you guys do one on Dorothea Puente

[@johnfoster6915]

If I was a parent of someone like Joe, she might still be breathing but she would not be walking anywhere she went. The legal system let him and his family down. Not to mention the bystanders that went on to professions in law and the ethics they have. Disgusting.

[@imadeyoureadthis1500]

First

[@bogdiworksV2]

And i thought the UK went easy on crims... disgusting case. Btw, mouth to mouth does nothing.

[@thedisabledwelshman9266]

she got off light.

[@Andrew-ri5qo]

Despicable people.

[@rosstitute88]

Imagine a black dude tried to use that as an excuse. He'd be more likely to die on TV than end up free with a doctorate or masters or whatever.

[@SugarFreeBoi]

SEE BAE DEE, joking aside, well done :)

[@Jolenesmart1980]

Omg now she’s with a woman she met in jail - but long term ? Wow

[@ilkkarautio2449]

And all these outbursts of family members... Bitch please. Not all of us are great, and those whom we choose to have intimate relationships correlate pretty well with our nature.

[@Bumbbleb]

What kind of willy wanka, clue game type shit is this?

[@chels3707]

Many more people are psychopaths (narcissists) than one realises. That's the inevitable result of not believing in God.

[@jerrymarshall2095]

An abyss of disorder

[@belladonna5904]

Anu never intended to commit suicide. That was just a deceptive ploy intended to make her look more sympathetic i.e. insane when she murdered Joe. She and the friend who helped with this should be in prison. I can understand how her other friends thought Anu wasn't serious, they knew how attention seeking she was.

[@c.w.8200]

I agree, I think the doctor that diagnosed her with immaturity and narcissism got it right, depression and even borderline are no sufficient explanation for her behavior, she didn't self harm, she didn't attempt suicide, she did this all for attention and to prevent Joe from having a life without her, that's no different from a narcissistic man killing his wife before she can leave.