NSW: Paroled child killer should argue charge from jail: Debnam

AAP General News (Australia)
08-29-2006
NSW: Paroled child killer should argue charge from jail: Debnam

SYDNEY, Aug 29 AAP - Child killer John Lewthwaite should be returned to jail after
being charged with exposing himself on a Sydney beach, the NSW Opposition says.

Opposition Leader Peter Debnam said today Lewthwaite should not be free on bail while
arguing his case for a continuation of his parole.

Lewthwaite, 49, was released on life-long parole in 1999 after spending 25 years in
jail for the 1974 stabbing murder in Sydney of five-year-old Nicole Hanns.

He was bailed this month to appear in Sutherland Local Court on September 14 charged
with wilful and obscene exposure.

It's alleged he exposed himself in the sandhills of Wanda Beach, at Cronulla's in Sydney's
south, about 5pm (AEST) on Saturday, August 19.

Mr Debnam wants parole conditions changed so that parolees who are arrested and charged
with a second offence, but not convicted, return to jail until their case is determined.

"He is convicted. He is a convicted child killer, a convicted child rapist. He has
been charged by police, he has got a court appearance coming up. He can argue it from
jail," Mr Debnam said.

Lewthwaite stabbed Nicole Hanns 15 times when he broke into the Hanns family home at
Greystanes in Sydney's west, intending to abduct and rape her nine-year-old brother Anthony.

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