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LURED TO DEATH
31 years
jail for
killings
PUB: NT NEWS
DATE: 22-NOV-2012
MELBOURNE: A Victorian
man who fatally stabbed two
men during a fight over a car
space has been jailed for 31
years, with a judge branding
the killings mindless, futile
and beyond belief.
Richard Stephen Devries,
38, was on parole after being
jailed over another stabbing
when he killed Evan Hugh
Rudd, 29, and Roy Theodore
Poole, 29, in the early hours
of February 19 last year.
Devries had been drinking
for several hours with a
friend at two bars in the Gippsland town of Moe before he
visited another friend at a
nearby block of units.
When he tried to leave, his
car was boxed in by Mr
Poole’s, leading to an altercation, Justice Lex Lasry
said yesterday.
Devries was found guilty
by a Victorian Supreme
Court jury in June of the
murder of Mr Rudd and the
manslaughter of Mr Poole.
Sentencing Devries to 31
years in jail with a minimum
non-parole term of 24 years,
Justice Lasry said the killings were ‘‘terrible crimes’’
that were ‘‘beyond belief’’.
‘‘They were futile, violent
and mindless and by the time
you stabbed these men your
actions were unprovoked,’’
he said.
‘‘That two men could have
lost their lives over some
minor issue about car parking brings a new level to my
frustration at the willingness
of some young men, affected
by alcohol, as you were, to
use knives to make some
futile point resulting in
a tragedy.’’
Mr Poole had become
engaged shortly before his
death, the court heard.
MELBOURNE: A drug dealer
who invited a friend to dinner before shooting him
dead, dismembering the
body and placing it in a tub of
acid has been jailed for more
than 23 years.
Leonard Borg suspected
Peter Rule had reported his
cannabis operation to police
so he shot him 10 times before setting out to destroy
his body over three days, the
Victorian Supreme Court
heard yesterday.
CRUSHED BY TRUCKS
BRISBANE: A man has died
after a ute he was in was
crushed between two trucks.
Police say the ute was following a slow-moving semitrailer when another semitrailer ran into the back of
the ute, forcing it into the
first truck.
LOVE RIVAL KILLED
Some of the drugs found hidden inside a road roller
Picture: AFP
Sting nets 350kg drug haul
CANBERRA: Australia’s
second major drug bust in a
week,
which
netted
$240 million worth of cocaine and methamphetamine in Sydney, shows the
international reach of police
work is greater than ever,
federal police say.
The 350kg haul had been
shipped from China hidden
inside a road roller and was
being prepared for the local
market when police swooped
on five premises around Sydney last weekend.
The Australian Federal
Police (AFP) arrested two
foreign nationals — a
34-year-old Canadian, al-
leged to be the organiser and
financier of the operation,
and a 33-year-old US national, also suspected to be a
major player in an international crime syndicate targeting Australia. Last week, the
AFP seized 204kg of cocaine
found aboard a yacht that
ran aground in Tonga.
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where he lived with the victim and their shared lover,
William Benjamin Campbell.
CHICKEN CULL
SYDNEY: An outbreak of bird
flu in the lower Hunter region of NSW has been eradicated after authorities culled 50,000 chickens at an
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