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Child killer to face questions on 1968 murder
VICTORIA'S longest-serving prisoner, the child killer and diagnosed "sadistic pedophile" Derek Percy, is to be questioned by the NSW Coroner over the murder of a boy in Sydney 37 years ago.
The State Coroner, John Abernethy, has ordered Percy to appear before Glebe Coroner's Court at a two-day inquest, beginning today, into the unsolved abduction, strangulation and mutilation murder of three-year-old Simon Brook at Glebe Point on May 18, 1968.
Police have not revealed whether Percy, 57, will give his evidence via a video link or be flown to Sydney under tight security. Police in NSW, Victoria, South Australia and the ACT believe he may be linked to the murders of seven other children and teenagers in the 1960s.
Percy is serving a life sentence in Victoria as a "governor's pleasure prisoner" after being found not guilty on the grounds of mental illness over the 1969 stabbing murder of a 12-year-old Victorian girl.
At the time he was a sailor stationed at nearby HMAS Cerberus. His movements as a teenager with his parents and later as a sailor also placed him near the scenes of some of the country's most baffling homicides - including the murders of two teenage girls at Wanda Beach in 1966 and the disappearance of the three Beaumont children in Adelaide that same year.
More: http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/child-killer-to-face-questions-on-1968-murder/2005/12/11/1134235951331.html
There's also a cold case thread on the three Beaumont children, as that case was never solved, and it hasn't yet been proven and wasn't suggested until earlier this year that Percy may have been involved. Some other guy was on trial for their murders.
http://websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?p=607763#post607763
VICTORIA'S longest-serving prisoner, the child killer and diagnosed "sadistic pedophile" Derek Percy, is to be questioned by the NSW Coroner over the murder of a boy in Sydney 37 years ago.
The State Coroner, John Abernethy, has ordered Percy to appear before Glebe Coroner's Court at a two-day inquest, beginning today, into the unsolved abduction, strangulation and mutilation murder of three-year-old Simon Brook at Glebe Point on May 18, 1968.
Police have not revealed whether Percy, 57, will give his evidence via a video link or be flown to Sydney under tight security. Police in NSW, Victoria, South Australia and the ACT believe he may be linked to the murders of seven other children and teenagers in the 1960s.
Percy is serving a life sentence in Victoria as a "governor's pleasure prisoner" after being found not guilty on the grounds of mental illness over the 1969 stabbing murder of a 12-year-old Victorian girl.
At the time he was a sailor stationed at nearby HMAS Cerberus. His movements as a teenager with his parents and later as a sailor also placed him near the scenes of some of the country's most baffling homicides - including the murders of two teenage girls at Wanda Beach in 1966 and the disappearance of the three Beaumont children in Adelaide that same year.
More: http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/child-killer-to-face-questions-on-1968-murder/2005/12/11/1134235951331.html
There's also a cold case thread on the three Beaumont children, as that case was never solved, and it hasn't yet been proven and wasn't suggested until earlier this year that Percy may have been involved. Some other guy was on trial for their murders.
http://websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?p=607763#post607763