<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A man who </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/murder" rel="" target="" title="murdered"><span>murdered</span></a><span> his lawyer girlfriend with a champagne bottle in a hotel room after she said she wanted to break up will spend at least 19 years behind bars.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Cameron John Pearson, 44, struck Alice McShera, 34, in the head and face with the bottle between five and nine times in a lethal late-night attack at the Crown Towers complex in </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/perth" rel="" target="" title=" Perth"><span>Perth</span></a><span> on October 30, 2023.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Pearson pleaded guilty to murdering McShera and was sentenced today in the WA Supreme Court to life in prison.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/donald-trump-cuba-taking-venezuela-usa-politics-news/ad77bf7e-441b-40fc-b041-37829374c809" target="_blank"><strong><span>Donald Trump says he'll be 'taking Cuba' in latest escalation</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He will be eligible for parole after serving 19 years.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Your offending involved a brutal, senseless and unprovoked attack," Justice Michael Gething said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"You abused her trust and exploited her vulnerability.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/life-behind-bars-for-champagne-bottle-murder-in-hotel/d8eb08f5-efc1-4a12-913f-3dc56b3ba4bb" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Ms McShera was an entirely innocent victim."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The family law specialist, who had previously helped the killer with legal matters, suffered nine injuries, including skull fractures, deep lacerations to her head and face, a brain bleed and traumatic brain injury.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Hotel staff found her body on the bathroom floor the following day with the bloodied bottle beside her.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Pearson was in a bathtub in the same hotel room - number 1227 - in his underwear, holding a broken champagne glass with serious self-inflicted injuries to his wrist.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He later told police the pair had been arguing after McShera told him she was leaving him, and he attacked her while she was putting on makeup and getting ready to go out.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I lost it and hit her over the head," he later told investigators during an interview.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/sydney-schoolgirl-speaks-out-about-terrifying-bullying-incident/126cabb4-10a4-4c8a-a889-92f2115e687c" target="_blank"><strong><span>Sydney schoolgirl speaks out about terrifying bullying incident</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Because she was leaving me."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The courtroom, packed with members of the Perth legal fraternity, heard the pair had been staying at the hotel in a bid to reconcile their increasingly volatile relationship, which involved recreational methamphetamine abuse.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>After Pearson, a fly-in-fly-out boilermaker, killed McShera, he covered her with towels and a robe, and "chilled out" in the hotel room.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He attempted to end his own life after hotel staff tried to enter the room, following a call from McShera's concerned family.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Your offending involved the most extreme kind of domestic violence," Justice Gething said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.1800respect.org.au/"><strong><span>National Sexual Assault, Domestic Family Violence Counselling Service</span></strong></a><strong><span> 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732).</span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.lifeline.org.au/"><strong><span>Lifeline 13 11 14</span></strong></a></div></div>