Makes ya proud to be an Aussie when you see our courts continually hand out soft (if any) punishment, so that criminals can continue to perfect their craft without too much interferance.

Makes me pine for the good old days when punishments used to fit the crime; the death penalty would have served society quite well in this case.  >:(


THE sadistic killer who dismembered a childcare worker and dumped her body parts off a pier had murdered twice before, it can now be revealed.
In a move that took police and prosecutors by surprise, John Leslie Coombes yesterday pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court to the murder of Raechel Betts, 27.

Coombes strangled Ms Betts and cut her up in a bathtub after an argument at the Phillip Island home of co-accused Nicole Godfrey in August 2009.

Told Coombes had killed twice before, Betts' family called for a review of the parole system.

Her body parts were placed in plastic bags and thrown off a pier at nearby Newhaven.

In the wake of yesterday's guilty plea, the Herald Sun can reveal that Coombes had twice been convicted of murder - but was released - before he killed Ms Betts.

In February 1984 he murdered a man named Michael Peter Speirani.

In November the same year he murdered Henry Desmond Kells.

Coombes received a life term in December 1985 for the Kells murder.

In April 1990 he was granted an 11-year minimum term. For the Speirani murder he was ordered, in April 1998, to serve 15 years with a 10-year minimum.


http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/national/freed-to-kill-again-and-again/story-e6freooo-1226048825671

I'm not in favour of the death penalty, but life should MEAN LIFE.

He should NEVER have been released in the first place, to kill again.

But this isn't the fault of the judge, or the law per se, it IS the
fault of the do-gooders in the parole system.

These are the same arseholes who get paedophiles released, only
for them to molest again.

'Life without parole' should mean EXACTLY THAT.

And MOST CERTAINLY in this case.

Quote:

'Life without parole' should mean EXACTLY THAT.

And it does. But that's not what he was sentenced to.

You do realise that prior to the early 1990's that there was never such a thing as life without the chance of parole?

Judges being able to sentence someone to Life without parole is a relatively new thing - the last 20 years.

Life_goes_on wrote on May 3^rd, 2011 at 3:46pm:

Quote: 'Life without parole' should mean EXACTLY THAT. And it does. But that's not what he was sentenced to. You do realise that prior to the early 1990's that there was never such a thing as life without the chance of parole? Judges being able to sentence someone to Life without parole is a relatively new thing - the last 20 years.

My apologies, I did not notice the date of his original sentencing.

I stand corrected.