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This might interest you>So police believe Julie met her plight within a 5 hour window.
Interesting another victim within weeks of Julie had been abducted while exiting clouds which would be the type of club you would wear Julies attire with those patent shoes.
"After we recovered Julie’s vehicle...we were able to establish that one of the rear doors of her car couldn't be locked,” he said.
“So we looked at the possibility that someone may have secreted themselves in the back seat while it was parked at the hotel without her knowing and that she was forced to drive somewhere.”
Mr Carey said some time after the 22-year-old went missing, police received information which suggested she could have gone to the Burswood Casino after she left the Parmelia.
The former cop believes Ms Cutler succumbed to whatever fate she met in a five-hour window between 12.30am on June 20 and daybreak that morning
What happened to Julie Cutler? 30 years on, the question still remains
AAP General News (Australia)
12-19-2001
WA: Ex-SAS soldier who extorted $2 mln from casino gets 12 years
By Andrea Mayes
PERTH, Dec 19 AAP - A former British SAS soldier who extorted $2 million from Perth's
Burswood casino and kidnapped and drugged an undercover police officer was sentenced today
to 12 years' jail.
Roger Sidney William Payne, 55, an Order of Australia recipient who listed army chief
Peter Cosgrove as a referee, had pleaded guilty to extortion, kidnapping and threatening
to kill the police constable.
The West Australian District Court was told Payne sent an "authentic and menacing"
ransom letter to Burswood casino management on August 31 this year, threatening to detonate
explosives inside the hotel complex unless he was paid $2 million.
Chief judge Kevin Hammond said Payne telephoned casino management the following evening
and arranged for a courier to deliver the cash to him.
An undercover police officer who met Payne with the money was subsequently kidnapped
by the former soldier, who was armed with a replica semi-automatic shotgun and a grenade.
Payne ordered the officer to drive to bushland in Perth's southern suburbs and threatened
to shoot him if he did not obey.
He then telephoned Burswood and warned that any attempt to apprehend the officer would
result in his murder.
About 5,000 people were then evacuated from the casino and hotel while a six-hour search
for explosives was undertaken.
Meanwhile, Payne made the police officer drink a sleeping potion and forced him to
strip naked before ordering him to run towards his car and not look back.
Payne was arrested two days later when he tried to retrieve the money, which he had
hidden in bushland.
Judge Hammond said the crime had no precedents in WA and he could not recall an offence
of the same apparent menace and gravity.
He said Payne's actions were partially explained by his depressed mental state since
retiring after more than 30 years with both the British SAS and, later, the Australian
army.
Several doctors testified Payne had suffered severe depression and feelings of worthlessness,
and had been unable to adjust to life outside the military, despite the support and love
of his family.
However, Judge Hammond said the seriousness of the offences, particularly the "very
considerable cruelty" inflicted on the police officer, warranted a lengthy sentence.
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