Man gets life in jail for rape, murder
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June 20, 2013, Thursday
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A SERIAL sex offender was sentenced to life in prison yesterday in Australia for raping and murdering an Irish woman while he was free on parole after previous convictions for raping five women.
Adrian Ernest Bayley, 41, was sentenced by the Victoria state Supreme Court in Melbourne, and cannot be considered for parole for 35 years.
He pleaded guilty to raping and strangling Jill Meagher as she walked home from a bar after an evening out with work colleagues on September 22 in Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city.
The court heard that Meagher rejected a colleague's offer to escort her home.
Bayley accosted her on a busy street and dragged her into a lane only a few hundred meters from her home. He was caught on closed circuit TV approaching her.
The crime caused outrage in Melbourne, where a week later 30,000 people took to the streets near the lane where she was strangled to rally against violence toward women.
The 29-year-old Meagher was born in the Irish port city of Drogheda and worked in an administrative position for the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Her husband Tom Meagher told the court his faith in mankind had been destroyed.
"I think of the waste of a brilliant mind and a beautiful soul at the hands of a grotesque and soulless human being," he said in his victim impact statement.
"I am half a person because of this crime," he added.
Adrian Ernest Bayley, 41, was sentenced by the Victoria state Supreme Court in Melbourne, and cannot be considered for parole for 35 years.
He pleaded guilty to raping and strangling Jill Meagher as she walked home from a bar after an evening out with work colleagues on September 22 in Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city.
The court heard that Meagher rejected a colleague's offer to escort her home.
Bayley accosted her on a busy street and dragged her into a lane only a few hundred meters from her home. He was caught on closed circuit TV approaching her.
The crime caused outrage in Melbourne, where a week later 30,000 people took to the streets near the lane where she was strangled to rally against violence toward women.
The 29-year-old Meagher was born in the Irish port city of Drogheda and worked in an administrative position for the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Her husband Tom Meagher told the court his faith in mankind had been destroyed.
"I think of the waste of a brilliant mind and a beautiful soul at the hands of a grotesque and soulless human being," he said in his victim impact statement.
"I am half a person because of this crime," he added.
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