'H worked with Ms M as the assistant manager at a Gladstone Park supermarket, and murdered her on April 19, 1986, after she resisted advances from him.
H - who was living in a Westmeadows caravan park at the time and had previous convictions for assault and carrying an offensive weapon - tried to claim at his 1988 trial that he had rebuffed advances from Ms M, and that they had struggled, before he accidentally stabbed her with a small knife.
The judge described his version of events as ''patently absurd'', saying ''it only needs stating to have its ridiculousness revealed''. H went back to work after the killing and told his workmates what had happened, before returning to the scene and setting fire to the car.
The judge said Hunter had shown no signs of guilt or contrition over his killing of a ''attractive, vivacious and outward-going young woman''.
Two years after his murder conviction, H was one of three inmates - including another murderer - who tried to escape from Pentridge Prison.
The three men tore timber from the wall of a prison gym to make ladders and then used knotted-together sheets to get over the outside wall. H made it into a nearby house, where an elderly woman found him washing his wounds in a sink. H fled the house, tried to commandeer a ute driven by a former Collingwood footballer, and was finally caught by police hiding under a trampoline in a street near the prison.
