April 21, 1990: 18y/o. Married Debbie, who was pregnant with their first child
June 8, 1990: Held 16y/o friend of his sister hostage in his home and raped her
June 10, 1990: Arrested and charged with rape. Bailed.
August 30, 1990: Attacked a girl, 17, walking home from a bus stop. Threatened to kill her
September 11, 1990: Victim identified him to police. Arrested, charged with attempted rape and again released on bail.
October 1990: Daughter born (Ist)
December 12, 1990: Picked up hitchhiker, 16, and attacked her. She escaped.
December 17, 1990: Victim identified him. Arrested.
7 June 1991: Pleaded guilty. Sentenced to 5 years with minimum of 3.
April 1993: Released from jail after serving 22 months. completed an apprenticeship and qualified as a pastry cook.
1995: Split from 1st wife and began a new relationship.
1996: Second child born to 1st wife (2nd)
1998 : 1st child born to 2nd partner (3rd)
July 2000: Changed name by deed poll from Edwards to Bayley.
September 1, 2000: First of five rapes of women in St Kilda area. Each woman was driven to a lane in Elwood and violently raped in a vehicle.
*Nov 2000 - raped 18y/o sex worker. Not reported until 2012. Trial 2015 (guilty) Appeal 2016 (overturned) non parole period reduced 3yrs.
April 17, 2001: Arrested over the 5 rapes. DNA NEVER STORED ON DATABASE.
2001: 2nd child born to 2nd partner (4th)
April 26, 2002: Sentenced to 11 years with a minimum of 8 after pleading guilty to 16 rapes on 5 women in St Kilda.
Sentenced under S6D - serious sex offender. NOT MONITORED ON RELEASE
2009: Completed sex offender treatment program in prison.
March 17, 2010 release on parole at the earliest date after minimum term .
August 12, 2011: King-hit man outside a Geelong cafe, breaking his jaw.
October 2011 - defacto relationship 6mths
Loretta O'Neill - Budds st Coburg
February 27, 2012: pleaded guilty at Geelong magistrates Court to recklessly causing serious injury and jailed for three months. Appealed and released on bail awaiting appeal. Parole was continued.
*April 2012 - raped 25y/o sex worker.
2015 trial (guilty). 2016 Appealed sentence. (dismissed)
*14 July 2012 - raped Dutch backpacker.
2015 trial (Guilty) 2016 Appeal (dismissed)
September 22, 2012: Attacked & murdered Jill Meagher as she walked home in Brunswick
September 27, 2017: charged with murder
April 2013: Sentenced to a minimum term of 35 years.
September 2013 : Appeal against minimum term dismissed
13 July 2014 - Guilty 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.
March 12 , 2015 - Guilty 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.
March 26, 2015 Guilty 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.
2015: Had his jail term increased to 43yrs no parole after being found guilty of 3 other rapes* in 3 separate trials.
The convictions related to attacks on a sex worker in 2000, another sex worker in April 2012 and a Dutch backpacker in July 2012.
Bayley appealed against the convictions in the first and third rape trials, and the sentences in all three trials.
13 July 2016: acquitting him of three counts of rape two counts of common assault and single charges of false imprisonment and making a threat to kill from the first trial (sex attack 2000) the Court of Appeal reduced Bayley's non-parole period from 43 years to 40.
Adrian Bayley will be 83 when eligible for parole in 2055.