Double Cop Killer Gets Another Life Term

[Tony]

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Wed 20 July 2005

Homicide detectives formally charged Bandali Michael Debs with the murder of Kristy Mary Harty. The body was found near a bush track on the Beaconsfield-Emerald Road Upper Beaconsfield on June 18 1997. 52 year old Debs was interviewed on 21 February 2001 in relation to the murder. The charge is the culmination of a protracted 8 year investigation.


http://www.theage.com.au/articles/20...html?from=top5

Convicted police killer Bandali Michael Debs has again been found guilty of murder. Wearing a grey suit and mustard-coloured shirt and tie, Debs, 53, showed no reaction when a Supreme Court jury delivered its verdict. The jurors returned their decision after deliberating for about four hours.

When asked if Debs was found guilty or not guilty of murdering teenager Kristy Mary Harty, the jury forewoman replied: "We find Mr Debs guilty." Justice Stephen Kaye thanked the jurors for their efforts. He then adjourned pre-sentence submissions until June 8.

Debs is serving a life sentence, with no minimum jail term, for the murders of Sergeant Gary Silk and Senior Constable Rodney Miller on August 16, 1998. His co-accused in that case, Jason Joseph Roberts, 26, was jailed for life, with a 35-year non-parole period.

Debs, formerly of Narre Warren, had pleaded not guilty to murdering 18-year-old Ms Harty, whose body was found in undergrowth at Upper Beaconsfield in June 1997. She had been shot in the back of the head. Prosecutor Andrew Tinney said in opening the trial that Ms Harty had been offering sex for money to male drivers along the Princes Highway at Dandenong. He said DNA comparison of semen found in her body showed there was a one in 370 billion chance that it came from someone other than Mr Debs.

A handgun and ammunition found at the New South Wales house of Debs' mother was of the same type as that used in Ms Harty's murder, he said. Senior defence counsel Chris Dane, QC, had said that even if the jury accepted the prosecution's DNA case, there was nothing linking Mr Debs to Ms Harty within 24 hours of her death.

Outside court, Mary Hamilton, a relative of Ms Harty, said she was a beautiful girl, "just like anyone else's 18-year-old daughter".

"She was just an average kid, very naive, and this was not what was meant to happen to her," Ms Hamilton said.

When asked to describe Debs, she replied: "Just, obviously, cruel, nasty, horrible man with no morals at all.

"I hope he meets with an unforseen ending in jail," she added

http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/06/22/1958967.htm

Convicted murder Bandali Debs has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a teenage prostitute.

The body of 18-year-old Kristy Harty was found on a bush track in Upper Beaconsfield, south-east of Melbourne, almost a decade ago

Debs is already serving two life sentences without parole for the murders of police officers Gary Silk and Rodney Miller in Moorabbin in 1998, a year after he killed the teenager.

In sentencing the Supreme Court Judge said the guilty verdict for the murder of Ms Harty reinforces the conclusion that Debs is an evil, violent and dangerous man.

[countybear]

After a first life sentence is handed down on scum like this, the only available sentencing possibility should be a ticket to the "afterlife"...

[Tony]

After a first life sentence is handed down on scum like this, the only available sentencing possibility should be a ticket to the "afterlife"...

So true, but like you, we have a LEGAL system, not a JUSTICE system.

[countybear]

So true, but like you, we have a LEGAL system, not a JUSTICE system.

Well said. Very well said.

[Blue Jacket]

How very true.....Even worse they are being fed our everyone's tax dollars.