GUILTY Australia - Lynette 'Norma' Daley, 33, Ten Mile Beach, NSW, 25 Jan 2011

[Bohemian]

Lynette Daley's rapists: Long criminal histories reveal violent past
ABC News
BY COURT REPORTER MAZOE FORD
UPDATED 35 MINUTES AGO
(as at 00:55 AEST 20 September 2017)

'Two men found guilty of the rape of Lynette Daley, whose bloodied body was found on a remote beach, have long criminal histories featuring multiple police assaults, court documents have revealed.

Ms Daley, 33, bled to death on an Australia Day camping trip at Iluka in 2011 after being violently raped by Adrian Attwater, 42, and Paul Maris, 47.

A fortnight ago a NSW Supreme Court jury took just half an hour to find Attwater guilty of manslaughter, Maris guilty of burning a blood-soaked mattress to hide evidence, and both men guilty of aggravated sexual assault.

On Tuesday Justice Elizabeth Fullerton released the NSW criminal histories of both men ahead of sentencing proceedings in November.

Assaulting police just one of the crimes

The documents list a range of crimes going back to when Attwater was a child and Maris was a teenager.

Maris' violent history consists of:

• Six serious assault charges between 1995 and 2005, including two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm
• Two counts of assault
• Two counts of assaulting police
  In 2005, he was ordered to enter full-time residential rehabilitation, commence drug and alcohol counselling, and participate in an anger management course
• In 2015, he was sentenced to 12 months in jail for going armed with intent to commit an indictable offence and destroying property
• Other convictions between 1988 and 2010 include malicious injury, possessing prohibited drugs, administering prohibited drugs, and multiple counts of drink driving

Attwater's criminal history includes:

• Two serious convictions for assaulting police in 1994 and 2010 - he was sentenced to nine months in jail for the second offence
• Between 1989 and 2008 multiple counts of drink driving as well as speeding, driving while disqualified, driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle, stealing, and cultivating prohibited plants

DPP still working on 'urgent brief'

Attwater and Maris are currently in custody awaiting sentencing for their roles in the death of Lynette Daley six-and-a-half years ago.

Despite a thorough police investigation in 2011 and coronial findings in 2014 which strongly recommended charged be laid, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) did not prosecute the men.

An ABC Four Corners program about the case in 2016 sparked public outrage, so director Lloyd Babb SC called in independent counsel, Philip Strickland SC, who ended up bringing the matter to trial for the DPP.

The jury's swift conviction this month prompted the NSW Attorney-General to demand the DPP to explain their actions the following morning.

Mark Speakman said he had spoken to Mr Babb and sought an "urgent brief on the circumstances surrounding this case".

As of Tuesday afternoon Mr Speakman told the ABC that he had received the brief and asked for further information.

The DPP said it would not comment.'

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-19/lynette-daley-rapists-attwater-maris/8960680

 

[Bohemian]

Lynette Daley killing: 'It'll never go away', family tells NSW court during emotional testimony
ABC News
BY DOMINIK VUKOVIC AND MAZOE FORD
UPDATED 25 MINUTES AGO (as at 15:52 AEDT 8 November 2017)

‘The mother of a woman who died after a violent sexual assault on a New South Wales beach says she felt like her heart had been ripped out when she learnt of her daughter's death.

Key points:

• Lynette Daley was killed during a boozy 2011 camping trip
• A jury took only 32 minutes to convict Adrian Attwater and Paul Marris
• Attwater, her boyfriend at the time, was found guilty of manslaughter’

‘In a statement to the court, Ms Daley's mother Thelma Davis said: "I still keep thinking she's going to walk through the door, the pain is always there, it will never go away."

Ms Davis said her daughter's death made her feel like her heart had been ripped out.

In a separate statement, Ms Daley's seven children said the conviction of the two men had been a relief but it would not bring back their mother.

"We have had to suffer without a mother, it's been pretty rough for all of us kids.

"We all have so many things we want to tell her, but we don't have the opportunity to tell her that.

"These men have taken away the greatest thing any child could have in their lives.

"I hope one day they look back and reflect on all the wrong they have done."’

PHOTO Lynette Daley's family said the hearing only scratched the surface of the pain they had suffered since her death.
ABC NEWS: MAZOE FORD

Read more at:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-...l-maris-adrian-attwater-coffs-harbour/9129298

 

[Bohemian]

Attwater's girlfriend stands by him after he was convicted of rape and manslaughter of Lynette Daley
ABC News
BY MAZOE FORD
UPDATED ABOUT AN HOUR AGO (as at 19:18 AEDT 9 November 2017(

‘The girlfriend of a man due to be sentenced over the violent death of Lynette Daley on a remote NSW north coast beach is standing by him, saying he is "a loving and gentle soul".’

‘Attwater's current girlfriend sent a reference to Justice Elizabeth Fullerton ahead of Attwater's sentencing hearing in the NSW Supreme Court in Coffs Harbour yesterday.

In it, the woman wrote she was aware of the charges her partner had been found guilty of, but added she found them "hard to believe as he has never hurt me or anyone else … and in my experience would never hurt a woman".’

Read more at:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-...d-standing-by-her-convicted-boyfriend/9135228

 

[Bohemian]

Man who killed woman on remote beach 'stressed' about being in jail
The Sydney Morning Herald
13 hrs ago (as at 07:41 AEDT 10 November 2017)

‘A man awaiting sentence for the sexual assault and manslaughter of a woman on a remote NSW beach has been spat on and had hot water thrown on him in jail, court documents reveal.’

Read more at:

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/man-who-k...ssed-about-being-in-jail-20171109-gzibek.html

 

[Morrisa]

Sentencing this morning.

 

[Morrisa]

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[FONT=&amp]#BREAKING Adrian #Attwater jailed for 14 years 3 months & Paul #Maris for 6 years 9 months for their roles in the death of #LynetteDaley. @9NewsSyd
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Not nearly enough.

 

[they'll get you]

I’m with you there Boho. Not enough time.
Sickening filthy bastards!

May the next fluid be NOT hot water but acid.


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[symbah]

Its a bit late for sorry now Babbs. Such an injustice.

:rose:

A state coroner determined that Daley died of blood loss caused by blunt force genital tract trauma inflicted by Attwater, and both the coroner and police called for Attwater and Maris to be prosecuted. Yet prosecutors only decided to proceed with the case in 2016, after media reports of Daley's death sparked widespread public outrage and accusations that officials didn't care about Daley because she was Aboriginal and her assailants were white.


Over the years, prosecutors refused to publicly explain why it took them so long to bring the case to trial. But Daley's family has always believed it came down to racism.


In her sentencing decision, Fullerton said prosecutors had yet to offer an explanation.


"The delay in the prosecution of the offenders has not only operated unfairly on them but it has also operated to the direct detriment of the family of the deceased and has had the potential to undermine public confidence in the administration of justice generally," Fullerton wrote.


Following Friday's sentence, state Director of Public Prosecutions Lloyd Babb issued a statement apologizing to Daley's family and the wider Australian community for the delay. But he also appeared to defend his office's decision not to proceed with a trial years ago.


"The question of whether there are reasonable prospects of conviction is a predictive exercise and one about which reasonable minds can differ. Some of the evidence that informed the earlier decisions not to proceed with the prosecution was different to the evidence that was before the jury," Babb wrote. "Nonetheless, I sincerely regret my office's involvement in the delay."


Australians were rattled by the case, both for the savagery of Daley's death and the prosecutors' apparent indifference. The country has struggled for years to address disparities in the justice system's treatment of Aboriginal people, who make up around 3 percent of Australia's population of 24 million people and suffer from high rates of poverty, imprisonment, unemployment and poor health.

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20171208/news/312089993/

bbm

 

[JerseyGirl]

33-year-old Aboriginal woman Lynette Daley was brutally murdered by non-Indigenous men Adrian Attwater and Paul Maris. The investigation and decision to prosecute was initially marred by the same formula of political inaction and indifference that has characterised public officials’ responses in these 15 cases. Although the NSW director of public prosecutions twice declined to prosecute in relation to Daley’s death, an investigation into the circumstances of her death in May 2016 promoted public awareness of the issue and eventually led to a review of the decision.

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