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A CORONER IN Australia has said Irish woman Jill Meagher’s rape and murder was preventable.
Judge Ian Gray, who examined the circumstances of a number of murders by violent criminals over a six-month period, found that public safety was not prioritised by authorities dealing with dangerous parolees such as Adrian Bayley.
The Louth woman was murdered by Bayley in Melbourne in September 2012, who was on parole at the time.
Local newspaper the Herald Sun reports that Gray said it was a “flawed practice” to not cancel Bayley’s parole as he had been convicted of violent offences.
A more rigorous, risk averse approach … would have led to a cancellation of Bayley’s parole. It was a flawed practice as it did not bring dangerous and high-risk parolees immediately to account.
Parole practices have since been changed.
Bayley was sentenced to life in prison for raping and murdering the Irish woman. He was prevented from applying for parole for at least 35 years.
He was convicted of three further rapes following that decision, adding 18 years onto his sentence and increasing his non-parole period to 43 years.
In March, Bayley began an appeal process calling for his jail time to be cut.
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This must be very hard to take for the family.
Every murder can be said to be preventable.
Some are more preventable than others. There’s no sense in allowing violent criminals out on parole when they know there is a reasonable chance of them reoffending.
Not really for first-time offenders but not when legal shenanigans release dangerous people in the same of their stupid human rights while putting the public at risk.
Although theoretically every murder may be avoidable the message from this is that the murder ‘should’ have been avoided and it was avoidable errors that could have prevented this murder. The guy should have been locked up!
The judge and the legal team should be held accountable. Not on the murder obviously but a review of their practices etc.. same goes for here, what’s going on in our judiciary is a farce.
@Gerard Not every murder…. People are often killed in a moment of madness where there was neither prior intention or either warning signs to indicate a risk of homicide
Can we not say “stupid human rights” they are pretty much the foundations of modern society and they have nothing to do with parole hearings.
A savage predator like him gets to live his life once again. The beautiful young woman that he raped and murdered will never get that chance again! There is no real justice in our World. My thoughts go out to her husband and family. I can’t begin to imagine how they must feel. God love them!!
Whatever mechanisms, failings and gross stupidity allowed serial rapist and attempted murderer Larry Murphy to rejoin open society Scott free after the relatively minuscule time he served in jail and his obvious failure to rehabilitate will be called to account in time. If I was the presiding Judge I wouldn’t be able to sleep.
Bring in peper spray licensed and tranning. That could save lives
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