There's a Courier Mail article that mentions JC's criminal past, can anyone open it?
Revealed: The sordid convictions kept from wife
John Chardon was convicted of the manslaughter of his wife Novy on Monday afternoon. Now, read what the jury who tried him weren’t told about his sordid past, investigation into another death and criminal convictions.
Gold Coast businessman John Chardon's criminal history revealed
Courier Mail
GOLD Coast millionaire
John Chardon was investigated over the death of his first wife and is a convicted rapist and child-sex offender, it can now be
And another from the Gold Coast Bulletin:
Coast millionaire’s wild rollercoaster ride to jail
John Chardon’s life has been the wildest Gold Coast rollercoaster ride, from tragic lows to soaring business success which saw him become a millionaire — and finally, disgrace in jail.
The Courier Mail article says:
In 2013 he was investigated to see if he played a part in the 1990s death of his wife, Maureen Monica Chardon
Insufficient evidence was found to link him to her death
Maureen died at age 40, Candice and Angela are her daughters
Her death was written off as a suicide
Peter Foster told Chardon's committal hearing (for Novy's murder) that Chardon told him Maureen died of a massive dose of sleeping pills
Family said that Maureen had planned to leave Chardon because of his affairs with other women
She had confronted Chardon, at the factory, shortly before her death and threatened to take half of his assets
Maureen expressed a wish to be buried, Chardon had her cremated in 1996
Chardon said she didn't leave a suicide note. Chardon and Maureen were both married when they first met.
Peter Foster said he believes Chardon was responsible for her death.
Novy and Chardon knew each other for one month before they married.
After Chardon was charged with Novy's murder, a woman came forward and said he had raped her while she was in her teens - this was in the 1990s at his home
She came forward because she remembered his voice when she saw him on TV
She was 15 when he raped her, at a sleepover at his house
He later hired her as a cleaner and raped her again
Chardon was then in his 50s.
He was sentenced to six years for six child sex offences
The court found he had corrupted his victim
Chardon tried to talk the judge out of his punishment.
He unsuccessfully appealed the sentence in 2015.
In 2016 he was found guilty of more child sex offences, indecent treatment of a child under 16 not related to him
Rubbed the girls vagina for about 5 mins with a towel
He got an additional 5 months in jail for that
He was also acquitted of two counts of indecent treatment of a child under 16 when he swam naked with a 7 year old and a 9 year old.
He became eligible for parole in Aug 2017 for all of the sex offending.
