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Railway Rapist Troy Burley back behind bars after allegedly violating parole
A CONVICTED rapist has been arrested just short of a year after he was released on parole following a lengthy prison sentence. Troy Allen Burley, now 33, who was convicted over a number of sadistic sex attacks in the mid-1990's, was arrested in April and has already appeared in court twice, resulting in his parole being revoked. None of his new charges involve sexual assaults. 
His new charges include possessing dangerous drugs, failure to take reasonable care, possession of tainted property and entering a dwelling and committing an indictable offence. Burley was remanded in custody and is scheduled to reappear in the Redcliffe Magistrates Court on May 30. The former high-security inmate was convicted in 1997 on charges of rape, attempted rape, assault and deprivation of liberty charges. Burley, then 17, raped a British tourist in a shower block at a Bundaberg caravan park in October 1995. He was later dubbed the ``Railway Rapist'' after assaulting three women at the Gailes and Ebbw Vale railway stations, near Ipswich, between April and June 1996. Burley's attacks were described by a prosecutor during his 1997 trial in Brisbane's District Court as a ``chilling pattern'' that involved grabbing women from behind, tying clothing over their faces and taunting his victims during the attack. He also threatened to kill the women if they went to police. His sentencing judge said there had been sadistic overtones in Burley's attack on four women. ``The attacks were terrifying, humiliating, degrading ordeals in which you used a knife,'' Judge Charles Brabazon told Burley. ``It was made even worse because you threatened to pursue your victims and kill them if they reported you to police.'' Burley originally pleaded guilty to 27 charges, including seven rapes, during the trial. He was sentenced to 16 years jail but the then Attorney-General Denver Beanland appealed the leniency of the sentence. The Court of Appeal unanimously increased Burley's sentence to 20 years in 1998. The Courier-Mail (25-5-2011) www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/railway-rapist-troy-burley-back-behind-bars-after-allegedly-violating-parole/story-e6freoof-1226062353952 |
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'Railway rapist' on strict parole
THE Corrective Services Department says it has imposed strict parole conditions on “railway rapist” Troy Allen Burley. The Police Union questioned the parole board’s decision to release Burley back to Ipswich eight years short of his 20-year sentence. Burley pleaded guilty in 1997 to vicious sex assaults on four women, including the daylight rapes of two women near Ebbw Vale train station. A Corrective Services Department spokesman said yesterday Burley’s parole order contained conditions including random drug and alcohol testing, no contact, direct or indirect, with his victims or the victims’ families, attending all required courses, programs, meetings and counselling and living at a residence approved by the parole board or the corrective services officer and not changing address without their permission. “The parole boards are independent bodies,” the spokesman said. “They take community safety into account among a broad range of factors when considering a parole application, including the offender’s past offences and patterns of offending, the possibility of the offender committing further offences, the history of any previous parole orders and whether rehabilitation programs have been successfully completed. “Board members also examine extensive case history, including details about a prisoner’s behaviour in custody and the viability of the relapse prevention and release plans. “They also examine risk of physical or psychological harm to a member of the community, behavioural reports and the sentencing Judge’s recommendations.” The Queensland Times(26-5-2010) http://www.qt.com.au/story/2010/05/26/rapist-must-report-in-railway/ |
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