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Bandali Debs Loses Appeal Over Conviction for Murder of Teenager

DOUBLE police killer Bandali Michael Debs has lost an appeal against his conviction and sentence for the murder of a teen prostitute.
Debs was given his third life imprisonment term in June last year after a jury found him guilty of the cold-case murder of Kristy Harty on a bush track at Upper Beaconsfield in June 1997.
The sentencing judge said Debs was beyond redemption and would be a danger to the community if released.
The court heard Debs, 54, had sex with the 18-year-old before shooting her in the back of the head at close range.
Walkers later discovered her body dumped in rugged bushland.
Court of Appeal Justices Frank Vincent, Marcia Neave and Mark Weinberg unanimously dismissed Debs' appeal.
They found it was clearly open for the sentencing judge not to set a non-parole term for Debs in what they described as an appalling crime.
"The victim was a defenceless young woman who was shot and killed for no apparent reason," the judgment said.
"Ms Harty's family will suffer the life-long effects of knowing that heir mentally ill daughter, and sister, died a senseless and humiliating death, simply because she had the misfortune to encounter someone as cruel, vicious and malevolent as the applicant."
Debs was sentenced to two life sentences in 2002 for the murders of Sgt Gary Silk and Sen-Constable Rodney Miller.

Herald Sun (3-12-2008)
Katie Bice

Police-Killer Guilty Of Sex Worker Murder

DOUBLE police-murderer Bandali Debs has been found guilty of murdering an intellectually disabled sex worker 10 years ago.
Kristy Mary Harty, 18, was shot in the back of the head in Victoria's Upper Beaconsfield on or about June 17, 1997.
During a trial lasting almost four weeks, a Victorian Supreme Court jury was told Ms Harty's semi-naked body was found in undergrowth, with a bullet, a bone and an unused condom nearby.
Debs, 53, pleaded not guilty to murdering the woman, who at the time was working as a masseuse. She was working as a prostitute on the Princes Highway in Dandenong the day she died.
Prosecutor Andrew Tinney had told the court police uncovered a gun and ammunition buried in the garden of a house owned by Debs's mother at Epping in Sydney. He said it was the same type of gun used to kill Ms Harty.
Debs's barrister Christopher Dane QC had argued that even if the jury accepted the prosecution's DNA case, there was nothing linking his client to Ms Harty within 24 hours of her death.
During the trial before Justice Stephen Kaye, the jury was told that bodily fluid found on Ms Harty was 370 billion times more likely to be Debs's than any randomly selected Caucasian man in the state.
Debs's lawyers argued the prosecution relied on circumstantial evidence and evidence from unrelated criminal investigations involving their client.
Justice Kaye adjourned the case for sentencing on June 8.
Outside court, Ms Harty's cousin Mary Hamilton described Debs as an immoral, "cruel, nasty, horrible man".
She said Ms Harty should have had a much nicer life.
"She was just an average kid, very naive and this was not what was meant to happen to her - she should have had a much nicer life than this, she had much more potential," she said.
"She was a beautiful girl, just like anyone else's 18-year-old daughter that maybe had done something wrong in their lives and things hadn't gone the way they wanted them to go."
Detective Senior Sergeant John Kearney, formerly of the homicide squad, said he was happy with the verdict.
"This is a very callous murder - a young girl for no apparent reason was shot through the head in circumstances that were very, very chilling," he said.
"She was a young troubled girl and I think it was good she had her day today, it was a very pleasing result."
In February, 2003, Debs was jailed for life and his co-offender Jason Joseph Roberts given a minimum non-parole period of 35 years for murdering Sergeant Gary Silk, 35, and Senior Constable Rodney Miller, 34.
The pair was gunned down while on an undercover operation to track down two armed robbers after midnight on August 6, 1998, in Moorabbin, in Melbourne's south east.
Debs was matched to Ms Harty's murder after a blood sample was taken from him during his arrest in 2000 over the shootings.

AAP (11-5-2007)
Melissa Iaria/ Mariza O'Keefe

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