A PERTH woman whose mother was murdered at their Como hair salon has expressed relief her killer today pleaded guilty to the shocking crime.James Bill Payet, 48, today pleaded guilty in Stirling Magistrates Court to the murder of his former partner Angela Ferullo, 43, at the South Terrace salon in June last year.
Ms Ferullo's pregnant daughter Selina Bello was also stabbed, but survived the attack.
On her Facebook page, Ms Bello, who has since given birth to a son, said: 'Today we finally received some justice.'
'Guilty pleas were entered and now we can finally move forward from the hell we have endured for the past 7 months.
'Thank you to everyone who has supported myself and my family during this time.
'Mum, not a day goes by that we don't think about you and the great loss we have experienced hopefully now you can rest easy knowing that justice has and will be served love you always x.'
Outside court, Ms Bello wept and told reporters she was relieved that Payet had pleaded guilty.
'Me and my family can finally put this behind us,' she said.
Payet also admitted to wounding Ms Bello and grandmother-of-10 Peggy Kew, who was stabbed as she tried to intervene.
He pleaded guilty to murder, aggravated grievous bodily harm and aggravated unlawful wounding. Payet also pleaded guilty to unlawfully detaining a man in Success and doing an act that resulted in bodily harm.
Ms Bello and her mother were stabbed by Payet on the morning of June 24 last year as they worked at their hairdressing salon.
Ms Ferullo, a mother-of-four, died in hospital a short time later from her injuries.
Ms Bello was five months pregnant at the time.
She suffered serious injuries and spent more than a week in hospital and there were concerns that she would lose her precious baby.
She gave birth to her baby boy Emilio late last year.
Ms Bello told PerthNow just before last Christmas: 'I thank God every day for the second chance we have been given and plan to live my life to its fullest.'
Ms Kew, who threw a chair at Payet during the attack in a heroic attempt to get him to leave, spoke exclusively to PerthNow just days after the incident.
''All I could think of was picking up the chair and hitting him on the head - and that's what I did,'' Ms Kew said last June.
'But I don't feel like a hero at all,'' she said. ''If you were to ask me who is the real hero, it's Angela, Selina's mother.'
Payet will be sentenced in the Supreme Court on May 13.
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