Australia - Fake collar bomb extortionist Paul Douglas Peters granted parole after 10 years in jail

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Fake collar bomb extortionist Paul Douglas Peters granted parole after 10 years in jail

The extortionist behind Sydney's infamous collar bomb hoax will be released on parole as early as the end of this month after serving his minimum jail sentence.

Paul Douglas Peters was jailed for at least 10 years over the 2011 attack, in which he strapped a fake bomb to the neck of a terrified teenager inside her Mosman bedroom, on Sydney's lower north shore.

The State Parole Authority (SPA) has ordered Peters, who is now in his 60s, be released no earlier than August 27.

His risk of re-offending has been assessed as low and the panel noted he had demonstrated an "excellent" performance in prison.

 

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Collar bomb hoaxer granted parole

On the afternoon of August 3, 2011, Ms Pulver was studying for her HSC exams when Peters broke into the family’s Mosman home and affixed a black box – later discovered to be a gun safe – around her neck with a bicycle lock.

He put a purple lanyard around the 18-year-old’s neck containing a USB stick and a plastic document sleeve with a typed letter in it, told her to count to 200, and vanished.

The box remained locked on the teenager’s neck for the next 10 hours until bomb disposal experts finally determined no explosives were inside.

Peters was apprehended by the FBI 12 days later, halfway across the world in the US city of Louisville, Kentucky.

 

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Mosman fake collar bomber SET FOR PAROLE within weeks

His Year 12 victim was studying for exams when Peters entered her Sydney north shore home in a multicoloured balaclava and carrying a baseball bat.

He removed the device from his backpack and secured it around the 18-year-old’s neck with a bicycle lock.

After telling her “count to two hundred ... I’ll be back ... if you move, I can see you, I’ll be right here”, he left her with a document that demanded money and explained she had explosives around her neck.

 

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Collar bomb hoaxer granted parole

On the afternoon of August 3, 2011, Ms Pulver was studying for her HSC exams when Peters broke into the family’s Mosman home and affixed a black box – later discovered to be a gun safe – around her neck with a bicycle lock.

He put a purple lanyard around the 18-year-old’s neck containing a USB stick and a plastic document sleeve with a typed letter in it, told her to count to 200, and vanished.

The box remained locked on the teenager’s neck for the next 10 hours until bomb disposal experts finally determined no explosives were inside.

Peters was apprehended by the FBI 12 days later, halfway across the world in the US city of Louisville, Kentucky.

Louisville sounds like an an odd place to find an Australian extortionist. I guess Paul Douglas Peters is grateful that the Australia criminal justice system is more lenient than Kentucky.

 

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It's where his ex wife lived.

TE="MajorHoople, post: 17005897, member: 254424"]Louisville sounds like an an odd place to find an Australian extortionist. I guess Paul Douglas Peters is grateful that the Australia criminal justice system is more lenient than Kentucky.[/QUOTE]

 

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So his motive was the ransom money? Or whatever they'd call that... Did he follow through and try to collect any payment? Did he know the victim?

ETA I just realized this post is years old! I must have seen it in Related Posts! Just a case I hadn't heard of before.