Michael John Faulkner, aged 40, was this week formally committed for sentence in the Supreme Court over the death of Julie Ann Dawson, 37.

Ms Dawson was stabbed 16 times between 8pm and 10.30pm on Friday, May 9, 2008 at the house she shared with Faulkner in Miriyan Drive, Kelso.

Faulkner’s lawyer Eric Wilson told this week’s committal hearing at Bathurst Court House that his client wanted to plead guilty to the murder charge.

Director of Public Prosecutions solicitor Frances Lalic handed Local Court magistrate Jan Stevenson a brief of evidence saying statements from police and a post mortem examination supported the murder charge against Faulkner.

The post mortem report from John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle revealed Ms Dawson had 16 stab wounds above the waist and below the shoulders on her torso. Four stab wounds in her left arm included one that severed an artery.

There had been 12 superficial wounds but the forensic examination revealed some others - ranging from 10cm to 22cm in depth - caused massive bleeding from the area of the spleen, diaphragm, liver, heart, left lung and aorta.

The report concluded that four wounds on the left side of Ms Dawson’s body would have been fatal injuries.

Ms Lalic told Ms Stevenson she should read a statement by the officer-in-charge, Detective Sergeant Joel Fawkner, who arrived at the home in Miriyan Drive to find Faulkner lying on his back holding his stomach.

Sgt Fawkner related how Faulkner told him: “Yes, I take full responsibility. I stabbed her.”

“‘I came home and found bags out the front. Went round the back and broke a window,” Faulkner told Sgt Fawkner, according to the statement.

“Julie rushed me,” Faulkner added in his conversation with the sergeant.

“Did she have anything?” Sergeant Fawkner asked.

Faulkner: “Nothing. I went, got a knife and stabbed her. I’ve had enough. I want to die. I killed her.”

Ms Lalic said the magistrate should also read statements from Sergeant Troy Klower, Senior Constable Darrin Cuzner, Constables Cameron Gregory, Timothy Bentley, Caroline Tomek and Clinton Simpson, who all heard Faulkner admit he had stabbed Ms Dawson.

Senior Constable Cuzner had found Ms Dawson “with blood on her face, upper chest and neck” when Faulkner said: “Nah, she’s dead mate. I did it. I killed her.”

Faulkner had told Constable Tomek: “I like police. I’ll tell you I stabbed her. I want to die, I stabbed myself. I killed her. I don’t know where the kids are. When I came home she attacked me and I killed her.”

Constable Gregory said Faulkner had said: “She’s dead. I killer her”, while Constable Bentley heard Faulkner say: “I stabbed her. I did it.”

Constable Simpson had been at the Bathurst Base Hospital when Faulkner repeated: “I stabbed her. I want to die.”

Faulkner will be sentenced in the Supreme Court at a date to be set.