The orders were lifted on Thursday after Bayley was convicted of raping three other women before he raped and murdered Meagher in September Perhaps understandably, news of the order had not spread beyond the inner circle of lawyers and mainstream court reporters and editors, mainly in Victoria.
The suppression order only came to my knowledge as a Queensland-based academic when I happened to be sitting on a conference panel in Melbourne with a media lawyer and a judge last year discussing the futility of suppression orders in the modern era. The media lawyer told the audience of court officers, lawyers, journalists and academics that he had recently appeared in court several times to try to have this particular suppression order overturned — without success.
He said he could not be specific about the suppressed identity of the accused wisely, as representatives of that court were sitting in the audience. But when he mentioned the notorious crime itself my heart skipped a beat. Bayley had been named and linked to the Meagher murder on three pages of the book. He also appeared in its index. I hate to think what might have happened if I had not been at that seminar. I do not know how we could possibly have known of the existence of this suppression order other than by word of mouth.
Review copies were despatched to books editors and academics with the suppressed material manually redacted with a black felt pen. These remedial measures were taken at considerable cost to the publisher. All this was done despite a prospective juror never being likely to view a few pages of a small-circulation university textbook. The small circulation of the book would not have been a defence to that offence.
I didn't cry for me," Bayley told detectives. I hope they bring back the death penalty before I get sentenced. I have no life left. They should never have let me out. Earlier this year, the Victorian Government admitted existing laws had failed and tougher measures were needed. The Government is introducing legislation to ensure people who reoffend while on parole will automatically have their parole cancelled or reassessed.
There will be a mandatory cancellation of parole for sex and violent offenders who are convicted of the same type of offence while on release. Adrian Bayley has pleaded guilty to killing Jill Meagher last year. A suppression order has been lifted, meaning Bayley's history can be revealed.
He has served a total of 11 years in prison for the rape and attempted rape of eight women When he was 19 he raped two teenagers and attempted to rape another. He served time behind bars, but faked his way through a sex offender program to get early release. In he raped five prostitutes over a six-month period. He was jailed for a minimum of eight years over the attacks. In while on parole, he assaulted a man in Geelong.
The ABC understands the attack did not raise alarm bells with the Parole Board, as it was not a sex crime. Bayley was on parole when he raped and murdered Ms Meagher in Adrian Bayley pleads guilty to Jill Meagher's murder. Just a month after he was committed to stand trial, Bayley, 41, pleaded guilty in the Victorian Supreme Court to deliberately killing Ms Meagher in the inner-north suburb of Brunswick in September.
Ms Meagher's family was not in court today but police say they are relieved the case is resolved. The disappearance of Ms Meagher, 29, sparked a widespread social media campaign and made international headlines when she vanished from busy Sydney Road after a night out with friends on September Haunting CCTV images released by courts show her attempt to make the five-minute, metre walk home before her chance meeting with Bayley outside a dress shop. It was at am, just eight minutes after she left Brunswick bar Etiquette, that Ms Meagher was raped and killed.
At the same time, her husband Tom sent her a text message asking if she was OK. By 5am, Mr Meagher was searching the streets for his missing wife after 80 or so calls to her phone had gone unanswered. Her body was later found at Gisborne, 50 kilometres north-west of the city. Court documents reveal the man accused of raping and murdering Melbourne woman Jill Meagher blamed an argument with his girlfriend for his anger and aggression on the night she was killed.
Adrian Ernest Bayley, 41, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to raping Ms Meagher, but not guilty to two other counts of rape and one charge of murder. Photos released by the court have given a chilling new glimpse of the final moments of Ms Meagher. A police summary tendered to the Melbourne Magistrates Court says Bayley had an argument with his girlfriend about his "ongoing jealousy and possessiveness" at the Lounge Bar in Swanston Street on the night of September The court heard Ms Meagher was snatched from the street just eight minutes after she left a Sydney Road bar where she had been socialising with colleagues.
The police summary says Bayley saw Ms Meagher walking down the road and ran to catch up with her. She was actually telling me about her father," Bayley later told police. Prosecutors say Bayley accosted Ms Meagher at am and dragged her into the laneway, one minute after her husband sent her a text message asking if she was OK. I can't imagine how - how she felt, but I know how I felt. It's not nice, man, it's not nice. And all I thought was, 'what have I done?
Police say he left her body in the laneway while he went home to get a shovel and his car. Bayley allegedly returned at am, put Ms Meagher's body in the boot and drove to Gisborne South to bury her on the side of the road. The court documents reveal Bayley ran out of petrol on the way home and had to wave down a passing motorist who took him to a petrol station to get fuel in a jerry can, and back to his car.
The summary says police used data from Vodafone to track Ms Meagher's mobile phone. It indicated that her phone was in the Brunswick area until am, then moved north along CityLink near Moreland Road at am.
Police say they obtained a list of the cars that passed through the gantry, which led them to Bayley's car and ultimately, to his arrest. Police say he admitted in a hour interview to raping and strangling Ms Meagher, claiming it was because of the argument he had with his girlfriend earlier in the night, and that he had an "angry and aggressive demeanour which he transferred onto the deceased".
I hope they bring back the death penalty before I get sentenced I have no life left," he told detectives. Police say Bayley's girlfriend found a broken sim card that belonged to Ms Meagher's phone when she was washing his clothes.
Police found an ABC-marked pencil and two cigarette butts during a search of the laneway. Bayley has been committed to stand trial in the Victorian Supreme Court. Jill Meagher's accused killer Adrian Ernest Bayley watched movies after attack, court documents show. THE man accused of murdering Jill Meagher after raping her in a laneway then slept into the afternoon and enjoyed kebabs and watched movies with his de facto, according to court documents.
In a police statement tendered in court during Adrian Bayley's committal hearing, his de facto partner said that after news reports broke about Ms Meagher's disappearance, he warned her not to walk alone.
The woman, whom the Herald Sun has chosen not to name, told police how she and Bayley went out drinking with his mates on the night of Friday September 21, before she left him at a Swanston St bar because of an argument about seating. An elderly woman who owned the Coburg home where the couple boarded told police she saw the de facto arrive home.
The de facto ignored Bayley's subsequent texts and phone calls that night. According to police documents, Bayley returned home and changed before heading to Brunswick. There he dragged Ms Meagher into a laneway about 1. The court heard he returned to the laneway, with a shovel in his car, about 4. The elderly landlady saw Bayley, who worked as a pipeline layer, at the Coburg house about 6. She told police: "He said to me, 'I've just had a shower - been a big night.
I just had a phone call from my boss. He asked me to go and check on a pipe. She said they slept until maybe 1pm before driving to pick up a car from a Flemington hotel. Photographs documenting the case emerged from the police brief of evidence. But it now carries a dark and violent history. The photos show police evidence plates dotted about the scene to nominate possible items of interest, including a cigarette butt and an ABC pencil. He drove the car back to the laneway several hours after leaving Ms Meagher there and placed her body in the boot, the court was told.
As the Herald Sun revealed today, that car ran out of petrol as Bayley was driving home after burying Ms Meagher. There are also pictures of the spade Bayley used to dig the shallow grave by the side of Blackhill Rd in Gisborne South in the early hours of September A police summary of the case against Bayley, tendered in court, was released to the media after Bayley's committal hearing.
According to the summary, on the night of September 21 last year, while Ms Meagher was out celebrating with friends in Brunswick, Bayley was arguing with his girlfriend at Swanston St's Lounge Bar. The pipeline layer, 41, was arguing with her about "jealousy and possessiveness". Bayley left the Lounge Bar at There, he changed into a blue hoodie jumper, the summary said. Her friend left soon after, twice offering Ms Meagher a ride in a taxi. On her way, outside Chemist Warehouse, she asked a group of three people for a cigarette and had a "short friendly conversation" with the trio.
Bayley was in the area by that stage, and saw Ms Meagher walking alone. Bayley would later tell police: "I was just walking ahead of her and we'd already interacted on Sydney Rd and that's when she rang her brother. She was actually telling me about her father. Ms Meagher called her brother, Michael McKeon, at 1. Mr McKeon said he would call her back in a minute or two. He would try, but his sister's phone would ring out several times.
Ms Meagher's husband, Tom, knew his wife was out for drinks with workmates. Bayley later told detectives: "I actually apologised. I can't imagine how she felt but I know how I felt.
All I thought was, 'What have I done? Mr Silbert told the court: " Bayley has left the body of the deceased in the laneway and returned to his home address, where he has collected a spade and his white Holden Astra.
The court heard Bayley returned to the laneway at 4. Bayley was driving home from Gisborne when his car ran out of petrol near the Calder Highway. He managed to wave down motorist Dayle Watkins, who drove him to a nearby service station.
On September 27, after investigating the crime scene and gathering evidence, including CCTV footage and phone records, homicide detectives arrested Bayley. Bayley appealed two rape convictions and sentences that increased his non-parole period to 43 years. Victorian court of appeal judges Marilyn Warren, Mark Weinberg and Phillip Priest on Wednesday reduced his sentence to 40 years and acquitted him of one rape conviction — but dismissed his appeal against the other conviction.
Bayley had appealed two rape convictions for attacks on women in St Kilda in and The year-old received the life sentence for the rape and murder of Meagher. Having quashed the rape conviction, the court of appeal fixed a new non-parole period of 40 years.
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