6th Murderer: James Gargasoulas – Killed six pedestrians in a ‘vehicle ramming attack’ in Bourke Street, Melbourne in Jan 2017
On 20 January 2017 James Gargasoulas, 27, drove a stolen car through the busy pedestrian mall in Bourke Street, Melbourne killing six people and injuring dozens more.
Six days before the massacre Gargasoulas was released from custody during an out-of-sessions bail hearing.
On Friday 22 Feb 2019, Gargasoulas, 29, was sentenced in Victoria’s Supreme Court to at least 46 years in jail for his deadly driving rampage in busy Bourke Street mall two years earlier.
James Gargasoulas
· Bourke Street killer James Gargasoulas jailed for life over massacre – The Guardian – 22 Feb 2019
· Victorian police given shoot-to-kill powers to stop hostile vehicle attacks - 9News – 28 Oct 2019
· Melbourne CBD terror attack a 'wake-up call', Australian police say - . The Guardian – 10 Nov 2018
If James Gargasoulas remain alive throughout his 46 years’ minimum sentence and then be released the cost to the Victorian Public Purse based on the average annual cost of Maximum Security Incarceration in 2020, will be $8.05 million circa ($175,000 p.a. X 46 years).
Separately, on 9 Nov 2018 Hassan Khalif Shire Ali, 30, drove a 4x4 truck loaded
with gas bottles into Bourke St Mall, ignited the vehicle in a ball of flames
and then attacked
passers-by with a knife, stabbing to death Sisto
Malaspina. Hassan Khalif Shire Ali was shot by police at the scene of the
attack and died in hospital shortly after.
Questions re 6th Murderer - James Gargasoulas
Should the Victorian state government amend its criminal codes so that where the level of proof is Beyond Any Doubt of Guilt that the death penalty may be sentenced in the event of another vehicle ramming attack in its state?
Should other states and the two territories similarly amend their criminal codes so that the death penalty may be sentenced in the event of another vehicle ramming attack?
Write responses to above two questions re 6th Murderer on 'Peer Reviewer's Responses to Sentences Form' Word document