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Bandali Michael Debs found guilty of fourth murder

A Victorian man in jail for murdering two policemen and a prostitute has now been found guilty of murdering a NSW sex worker in 1995.
In the NSW Supreme Court today, a jury found Bandali Michael Debs, 58, guilty of murdering Donna Anne Hicks in western Sydney in April 1995.
Debs is serving a life sentence for the shooting murders of police Sergeant Gary Silk and Senior constable Rod Miller at Moorabbin in Melbourne's outer east in 1998.
He's also been convicted of murdering 18-year-old sex worker Kristy Harty, who was found with a gunshot wound to the head in bushland at upper Beaconsfield, southeast of Melbourne, in 1997.
The NSW jury was not told of the previous convictions, but was told that Debs' DNA profile matched semen taken from both women.
Ms Hicks, a 34-year-old mother of three, was shot dead and left near a quarry wearing nothing but a dog collar.
Justice Robert Shallcross Hulme adjourned his sentencing for the latest conviction to February 24.

The Australian (12-12-2011)
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/bandali-michael-debs-found-guilty-of-fourth-murder/story-e6frg6nf-1226220185592

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Police killer Bandali Debs among thousands linked to unsolved crimes

POLICE killer Bandali Debs is one of more than 7500 people Victoria Police's DNA database has matched to unsolved crimes they weren't even suspects for.
In the past decade the force's database has linked possible offenders to more than 100 murders and rapes, and thousands of less serious crimes.
Debs was convicted of the 1997 sex slaying of 18-year-old prostitute Kristy Harty as a result of the database matching his DNA with the unsolved murder. His DNA profile was loaded into the database after he was convicted in 2003 of murdering Sgt Gary Silk and Sen-Constable Rodney Miller.
That meant he was automatically compared with DNA profiles obtained from crime scenes going back decades. His profile matched DNA taken from Ms Harty's body.
Debs might never have been considered a suspect were it not for the DNA database linking him to the crime scene where Ms Harty's body was found.
He is one of thousands of Victorian prisoners who have been matched to unsolved crimes.
The database also discovered 2123 cases where the same person committed multiple offences, including serial rapists and burglars.
And it has helped solve hundreds of interstate crimes by linking Victorians with offences.
All those matches were cold hits since 2000-01, as opposed to hot hits where police have a particular suspect for a specific crime and compare the suspect's profile with DNA obtained from the crime scene and get a match.
The advantage of cold hits is that it is the database that makes the link between a person and a crime.
It does so by comparing every sample obtained from criminals and suspects with every DNA sample collected from unsolved crimes, such as semen from a rape, blood from an assault or saliva left on cigarette butts.
That automatic comparison is done every time a sample is added to the database, which now contains the DNA profiles of 25,976 known people and 24,708 unknown people, whose profiles were obtained from evidence left at crime scenes.
Those routine comparisons have thrown up 9697 cold hits in the past decade and almost 500 since July this year.
Most of the DNA database's successes come from the fact almost all convicted criminals in Victoria are forced to provide their DNA so it can be added to the database to be automatically compared with DNA obtained from the scenes of unsolved crimes going back decades.
During the past 10 years those routine checks have resulted in 6673 prisoners being linked to unsolved crimes they were not suspects for -- there were 950 such matches of
prisoners to unsolved crimes in 2009-10 and there have been 353 since July this year.
Victoria Police's new director of forensic services, Karl Kent, provided the DNA figures to the Herald Sun to demonstrate what a powerful crime-fighting tool DNA is.
He also wanted to demonstrate that despite a few DNA failings there continued to be far more DNA positives than negatives and that Victorians could have confidence in the reliability of the state's DNA processes.
Mr Kent was recently brought in from the Australian Federal Police to implement changes to Victoria's DNA and forensic services system after a succession of bungles and damning reports.
First there was the withdrawal of murder charges against Russell John Gesah in August 2008 after he was wrongly linked by DNA to the 1984 murders of mother and daughter Margaret and Seana Tapp.
It was discovered after he was charged that an unrelated exhibit containing DNA from Mr Gesah was tested at the Victoria Police laboratory on the same day and in the same place as material from the Tapp crime scene, leading to contamination. Further tests revealed his DNA did not match DNA left at the Tapp crime scene and the charges were dropped.
That was followed in 2009 by a damning Ombudsman's report that found the Victoria Police forensic services centre was plagued by poor management, industrial disputes and incorrect procedures.
Then 22-year-old Farah Jama was freed from jail in December 2009 after another DNA bungle.
The mistakes caused a major loss of confidence in the reliability of DNA evidence.

Herald Sun (20-12-2010)
Keith Moor

Cop killer Bandali Debs to face questions in NSW over woman's death

COLD blooded cop-killer Bandali Michael Debs will be extradited to a New South Wales prison to face questions over the murder of a prostitute 13 years ago.
Debs, who is serving life imprisonment for the murders of Sgt Gary Silk, Sen-Constable Rodney Miller and teenage prostitute Kristy Harty, appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court via videolink today.
NSW detectives want to question Debs, 57, about the murder of Donna Anne Hicks at Minchinbury, in Sydney's west, in 1995.
In a 2008 hearing, the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court was told Debs' DNA matched DNA collected from the scene and a car he owned at the time was similar to the one Ms Hicks was last seen getting into.
The court was also told mobile phone and banking records showed Debs was in Sydney's west around the time of the murder.
Today, lawyer Michael De Young, for Debs, told the court his client would fight any charges.
"Not only does he maintain his innocence, he's convinced he won't be convicted,'' Mr De Young said.
Wearing a green prison-issue tracksuit and glasses, a balding Debs flicked through paperwork during the brief hearing.
Magistrate Jon Klestadt approved the application for transfer by the Victorian Government Solicitor's Office.
The application was not opposed or consented to by Mr De Young.
Debs, who is currently at Barwon Prison, has not been charged.

Herald Sun (24-9-2010)
Kate Jones

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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