Knife-crazed woman who killed her teacher and tried to murder her own mother’s chilling warning as she’s released from jail: ‘I was born to kill – and I’ll do it again’
A woman obsessed with knives and death who killed a teacher and tried to murder her mother is on release from jail despite telling police she wants to murder more people.
Debbie Marie Adams, who spent 13 years in prison for manslaughter, is free on a community corrections order that was imposed after she threatened to kill two support workers.
Having served her prison sentence for manslaughter, Adams was released into the care of mental health services.
In 2024, Adams, now aged 43, suffered a mental health episode and was taken to Wyong Hospital.
She was assessed and released into the care of support workers Brooke Honeyman and Jarrod Kosorukow, but said: ‘I want to kill those c***s.’
A witness said Adams had said: ‘I haven’t done it already because I couldn’t find anything to do it with, but I’ll do it, I’ll find something to get one of them when I get home. I’ve killed someone before, I’ll do it again.’
Having been arrested for the threats, Adams told police: ‘I was born to kill and I’ll kill again.’
In January 1999, Adams, who was aged just 16 at the time, attempted to kill her mother by stabbing her in the neck with a bread knife while screaming: ‘I’m gonna kill ya, I’m gonna kill ya.’
Debbie Marie Adams, who spent 13 years in prison for manslaughter, is free on a community corrections order after threatening to murder again, telling police ‘I was born to kill’
Adams was locked up in Yasmar Detention Centre (above) as a teenager after attempting to murder her own mother by stabbing her in the neck with a bread knife
While in Yasmar Detention Centre in western Sydney for that killing, Adams viciously killed teacher’s assistant Scott Bremner, 33, on July 23 that year.
Adams had been in a cooking class when given a box that contained an apron and a large kitchen knife.
Mr Bremner, a storeman at TAFE, was filling in as a temporary teacher’s aide that morning. He was unaware of Adams’ background and did not know she had become excitable when handed her toolbox
Despite fears about Adams’ prior behaviour, and her obsession with knives and sharp objects, and a staff member’s fear that the cooking equipment ‘looked like killing knives’, no one warned Mr Bremner of the risk.
When the class was being taught how to cut vegetables, Adams walked behind Mr Bremner, raised the knife in both hands above her head and stabbed him in the back.
He died on the operating table at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
After Adams was detained, she raved to a youth worker, ‘Do you think he felt it? Do you think it hurt? Good job, eh, good job. It wasn’t even supposed to be him. It was supposed to be someone else but he was there.’
A judge later found Adams ‘had a pathological fascination for knives’ and was in ‘a highly aroused state’ after being handed her kitchen box.
Scott Bremner was 33 and just filling in as assistant cooking class teacher at Yasmar when Debbie Marie Adams took a kitchen knife and plunged it through his back. He died in hospital
On July 23, 1999, Adams murdered stand-in assistant teacher Scott Bremner with a kitchen knife given to the blade-obsessed teenager in a cooking class toolbox
Prior to the murder at Yasmar, formerly the Ashfield Remand Home, Adams had triggered concerns among staff.
She had stolen sharp objects and talked frequently of stabbing things and had spoken of her intention ‘to finish off her mother’ and going ‘hypo’.
Talking about knives ‘really got her going’, staff warned.
Adams was initially charged with murder over the attack on Mr Bremner but that was downgraded to manslaughter and she was sentenced to 10 years in prison, which was extended by another two and a half years.
At Silverwater Women’s Correctional Centre in western Sydney, the deeply disturbed Adams at first had no direct contact with other inmates.
Prison officials reported she was ‘fixated by knives, sexual objects and anything related to death’ and became ‘fixated on a particular staff member whom she believed was a reincarnation of the man she killed’.
Staff confiscated images of women on fire, guns, knives and people being shot that she had in her cell.
In custody Adams was considered a danger to others and to herself. At Silverwater she told the prisons commissioner that ‘you just couldn’t cut deep enough’ with sharp objects.
Prison officials at Silverwater Women’s prison (above) where Adams was jailed said she was ‘fixated by knives, sexual objects and anything related to death’
At Wyong Hospital in August last year, Debbie Adams threatened to murder two people. saying ”I was born to kill and I’ll do it again’
Transferred to Parklea Correctional Centre, which is mainly a prison for men, Adams asked the officer on duty in the prison tower to shoot her, saying she wanted to see her blood and intestines.
In 2008 she made a failed attempt to sue the NSW Government, arguing Yasmar had breached its duty of care by allowing her access to a knife in the cooking class and should pay damages for her decade-long loss of liberty that ensued
Approaching her release date in 2012, it was determined she be put in ongoing detention in a ‘secure mental health hospital’.
The delay in her release back into the community was some consolation for Mr Bremner’s parents, who felt let down by authorities who had given Adams access to a knife and gave him no warning of the danger she posed.
NSW education and juvenile authorities were later fined $294,000 for gross negligence.
At Silverwater Women’s Prison (above) Debbie Adams spent time in the self harm unit and was isolated from other women inmates
Adams was eventually released into the 24-hour supervision of NDIS mental health services, and from 2021 was in the care of Evolution Support Services until 2024.
Adams was by then living at Mandalong in the Lake Macquarie region north of the NSW Central Coast.
According to court documents, Adams was transported to Wyong Hospital while suffering a mental health episode on August 13, 2024.
Having been assessed and discharged into the care of support workers Ms Honeyman and Mr Kosorukow, Adams began ‘yelling and screaming that she wanted to kill (them) and that she would kill them when she gets home’.
After being arrested and telling police she was ‘born to kill’, Adams was charged with two counts of stalking, intimidating and causing fear of physical or mental harm.
She refused to be interviewed by police and was denied bail.
At Wyong Local Court in October 2024, Magistrate Trevor Khan refused Adams’ application to have her charges dealt with under the Mental Health Act and placed her on a two-year corrections order.
She was released into the community and remains at large under supervision by community corrections officers at Lake Macquarie.
