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THE family of a mother and child murdered in 1984 are devastated that the killer has been released from jail. Robert Barry Pearce was released from prison on February 13 after serving 24 years of a life sentence for the double murder of Mary Dunderdale, 33, and her son Jaime, 12. Pearce stabbed Ms Dunderdale 17 times after drinking 12 cans of beer and a bottle and a half of whisky. Ms Dunderdale's brother, John, is furious that his family was not consulted by authorities prior to the double murderer's release. "I've only had less than 24 hours to digest all this, It's all very much a shock that we had no input whatsoever," Mr Dunderdale told Simon Beaumont on 6PR. "Not once, ever, have we been contacted about anything at all to do with the case. "He cut my sister's throat and stabbed my nephew 49 times. "I am angry. It has left my mother devastated. We are all devastated. We are completely and utterly disillusioned with the whole system. "He was sentenced to life in prision and he should have been left there. You can't take, in particular, a child's life and be forgiven. "My mother is an 85-year-old woman who had her only daughter and first grandchild taken away. It has left a huge whole in her life." Mr Dunderdale said Pearce deserved the death penalty. Pearce was the first man to be sentence for the crime of wilful murder at the Buke government abolished the death penalty int the 1980s. He pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and was sentenced to a minimum of 20 years' jail. "They said it was an alcohol-related crime. What's to stop him going out and having a few beers and doing it again?" he said. PerthNow (3-3-2008) |
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