9th Murderer: Adrian Ernest Bayley - Murder Victim: Jill Meagher
In June 1990, Adrian Bayley raped a 16-year-old girlfriend of his sister when his wife was five months pregnant with his first child. Two months later he attempted to rape a 17-year-old girl and threatened to kill her as she walked home from a bus stop. He poked her in the eyes several times and ripped off her clothes. In December, he abducted a 16-year-old hitchhiker and took her to a remote area before trying to rape her.
Jill Meagher, 29
He was arrested in 1991 and pleaded guilty in June to those offences and was jailed for a minimum of three years.
In 1995, Bayley separated from his wife and began a new relationship in the same year and had another two children.
In 2000 he changed his name by deed poll from Edwards to Bayley.
In 2002, he was jailed for 11 years with a non-parole period of eight years for attacking and raping five prostitutes in St Kilda between September 2000 and March 2001.
Bayley was released on parole on March 17, 2010.
He appeared in Geelong Magistrates Court in February 2002 and pleaded guilty to king-hitting a 20-year-old man, breaking his jaw and leaving him unconscious.
Bayley was convicted and sentenced to three months in prison, but then appealed against the sentence. Because he was appealing, he was released from custody until the appeal could be heard.
Bayley, 41, was working as a labourer digging holes for piping when he raped and killed Jill Meagher, 29, in a Brunswick laneway off Sydney Road, Melbourne on September 22, 2012.
Ms Meagher, who was originally from Drogheda, County Louth, moved to Australia from Ireland in 2009 with her husband, Thomas.
Ms Meagher worked for ABC radio but went missing during a night out with colleagues. Her body was discovered six days later buried on the outskirts of the city.
The BBC's correspondent in Sydney, Phil Mercer, said there had been a huge turnout for Ms. Meagher's memorial rally and he had never seen "public revulsion on that scale".
"A few weeks after Jill Meagher was murdered a
crowd of about 30,000 people marched through the inner city district of
Brunswick, in Melbourne, to remember Jill Meagher and also to highlight the
broader concerns about
violence against women," he said.
"Certainly, this case did touch a very raw nerve in the city of Melbourne."
On 18 June 2013, Bayley, who had pleaded guilty, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum jail term of 35 years.
Bayley then faced three separate rape trials in the County Court beginning in July 2014.
On July 13, 2014 he was found guilty after another first trial of three counts of rape, two counts of assault, one count of false imprisonment and one count of making threats to kill between October 31 and December 1, 2000, at Elwood. He had attacked and raped a then 18-year-old sex worker.
He was found guilty on March 12, 2015 after his second trial of one count of rape and one count of false imprisonment after attacking a then 25-year-old sex worker. He had driven the victim from St Kilda to a narrow laneway at Elwood before raping her.
Bayley was guilty on March 26 after this third trial of one count of rape, two counts of indecent assault, one count of false imprisonment and one count of assault after being accused of attacking a Dutch backpacker on July 15, 2012.
Adrian Bayley
Bayley was born in 1971. Bayley, now 49, has been in jail for seven years. If he lives until he is 75, the cost to the Victorian Public Purse based on the average annual cost of Maximum Security Incarceration in 2020, would be $5.775 million circa ($175,000 p.a. X 33 years).
Questions re 9th Murderer: Adrian Ernest Bayley
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 rape and murder because Justice for the Innocent Victim should be a consideration amongst the Purposes of Sentencing?
Should other states and two territories similarly amend their criminal codes?
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