‘Monstrous’ breach of care: Nathan Vikatos jailed for 28 years after murdering his three-year-old son Alexi

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A father who killed his own three-year-old son in what’s been branded as a “monstrous” and “perverse” breach of care will spend nearly two decades behind bars.

Nathan Vikatos has admitted to murdering his son, Alexi Vikatos, in May 2023 in the bathroom of his aunt’s home in Sydney.

Alexi was aged just three years old when his father offered him a lolly and took him into the bathroom, where he was killed.

Vikatos was sentenced to 28 years and six months in jail in the NSW Supreme Court on Friday.

Justice Paul McGuire said Vikatos, who was 46 at the time, “murdered his own infant son in circumstances which were tragic, perverse and a monstrous breach of a father’s duty to care for his son”.

Alexi was described as a “lovely little boy” who was adored by his entire family, with Vikatos’ parents branding their son’s actions as “horrific and selfish”.

“They state that they will never come to terms with Alexi’s death or the fact that he was taken from them by his own father,” Justice McGuire’s stated in his judgment.

Vikatos’ sister said she would never understand how her brother “could do something so cruel and heartless to his own child”, describing his actions as “selfish, inhumane and depriving the whole family of future opportunities with Alexi”.

“(Vikatos’ sister) is no longer the same person, describing that she feels as though a part of her died when Alexi died,” Justice McGuire wrote in his judgment.

“There are days when her grief is so heavy that she feels unable to face the world and that the pain of what her own brother has done feels unbearable.”

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