By Camilla Theakstone For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 06:05 GMT, 19 March 2019 | Updated: 06:05 GMT, 19 March 2019
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A 'fanatically' religious man with 'radical' ideas was frightened his girlfriend would leave him when he slashed the throat of one of her Bible studies peers.
Joshua Benjamin Guy, a 32-year-old from Brisbane, has been in Arthur Gorrie prison since May 28, 2014 when he was charged with the attempted murder of Benjamin Jessop.
Guy, unemployed from Bardon, sparked the fatal argument with Jessop over whether Satan would burn in hell, in May, 2014.
A 'fanatically' religious Brisbane man with 'radical' ideas was frightened his girlfriend would leave him when he slashed the throat of one of her Bible studies peers
Guy attended the Toowong home of Jehovah's Witness Jessop to attempt to persuade him to agree with his girlfriend's interpretations of the Bible.
Guy's German partner had been studying the Bible alongside Mr Jessop, as part of her quest to join a religious group.
But the woman had disagreed with some of Mr Jessop's views, and Guy was worried it would lead her to leave Australia, and him, to return to