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Name: Leslie Cunliffe

Age: 63 yrs old (2011)

State:(VIC- Geelong,Grovedale/It is believed Cunliffe is now living in Pascoe Vale near a primary school-16-4-2011).

Sentence: Jailed for 20 yrs with a minimum of 16 yrs. Sentenced reduced in August 2000 to 15 yrs jail/ 12 yrs non parole. To be released 16-4-2011.
To be deported back to the UK-see below article 17-6-2011.

Offence/Other: Pleaded guilty to charges of kidnapping, two of false imprisonment,rape and sexual assault.Justice George Hampel said the crimes were horrendous and Cunliffe was a "serious sexual offender" and a "serious violent offender". Kept his victim in the "silence of the lambs style dungeon".

Sex fiend to be deported

EVIL Geelong rapist Leslie Cunliffe will be deported to the UK after he breached strict conditions of his visa while on parole, Federal MP Darren Cheeseman revealed last night.
Cunliffe, 63, was released from prison in April after serving the minimum 12 years of his 15-year jail term for the horrific abduction and rape of a 21-year-old Deakin University student in May 1999.
But the rapist recently breached conditions of his release by failing to report to a Melbourne police station, and as a result was detained by the Department of Immigration under instruction of Immigration Minister Chris Bowen, Mr Cheeseman said.
Cunliffe is being held in a Victorian detention centre, waiting for flights to be arranged so he can be booted out of Australia.
"The immigration department has detained him, because the minister's decided he's breached his visa provisions, and he's now in an immigration detention centre," Mr Cheeseman said.
"The Federal Government is currently making contact with the UK, where he's a citizen, to arrange travel documentation for his deportation."
Cunliffe is understood to have been living in Pascoe Vale near a primary school after his release from Lara's Marngoneet Correctional Centre.
The father-of-two horrified the community when he posed as a policeman before abducting his victim at gun point and later imprisoning, raping and attaching a fake bomb to her, while demanding a $1 million ransom from her family. A detective later described the Belmont shed where Cunliffe imprisoned the woman as being like something out of The Silence of the Lambs.
Cunliffe's visa was being reviewed, with Mr Bowen saying in April he could be stripped of his visa if it was "in the national interest".
Victims of Crime Advocacy League spokesman Steve Medcraft last night hailed the Government's move to deport Cunliffe.
"It would certainly help the family and the victim, and it means we don't have to worry about some lowlife like him doing this again," Mr Medcraft said.
Cats skipper Cameron Ling, who is friends with Cunliffe's victim and her family, has previously slammed Cunliffe's release from prison and called for his deportation.
Ling said Cunliffe needed to be kicked out of Australia to give the victim peace of mind.
"It would be a great step if the Government deported him. He's chosen to live outside how good people in Australia choose to live," Ling said.
"It would also create a safer environment for the victim, who would be able to feel safe in her own country without the threat of crossing paths with him."
Outspoken broadcaster Derryn Hinch described Cunliffe as a "sicko" who should be deported, while Addy online readers posted comments including, "this monster doesn't deserve second chances".

Geelong Advertiser 17-6-2011
Carl Dickens
http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2011/06/17/263951_news.html

Monster strolls to freedom

THIS IS the moment sadistic sex monster Leslie Cunliffe strolled out of prison a 12 years after kidnapping, raping and torturing a 21-year-old woman in Belmont.
With his thinning grey hair and three-day growth, Cunliffe, 63, made no effort to conceal his identity as he strode confidently to a waiting car at 8.12am on Saturday.
The Adult Parole Board earlier decided he should be free to walk the streets because he behaved well in prison.
The decision has disgusted the community and sparked outrage from friends of the still-traumatised victim.
Cunliffe, a father-of-two, was met only by prisoner support volunteers, who he seemed to ignore as he strode out of the glass front doors of Lara's Marngoneet Correctional Centre.
Moments before he emerged, Cunliffe placed a cap on his head and over his face but then changed his mind, walking out with the black cap in his hands and his eyes concealed behind sunglasses
Dressed in jeans, Adidas running shoes and a green jumper, he walked a metre in front of the prison support volunteer who had earlier picked up and secured his meagre box of prison-life possessions in a waiting black Holden Vectra, driven by another volunteer.
It is believed he was taken to a house in Pascoe Vale, where he will be subject to strict bail conditions and will risk being locked up and serving out his four-year non-parole period behind bars should he break them.
Cats skipper Cameron Ling, who is a friend of Cunliffe's victim and her outraged family, has criticised the Court of Appeal and parole board for allowing Cunliffe back into society after his sentence was cut by five years, allowing him to walk free after serving just 12 years in jail.
"It's an absolute disgrace that a disgusting human being like him can be let back out into the public early," Ling said. "To let this person back out into the public considering the impact this has had not only on her life, but also her family and friends' lives; to put them through that torment again is a disgrace."
During the first three months of his parole period, the convicted rapist will be required to report at least twice a week to his supervisor for monitoring, compliance, program participation and supervision.
He will have until Wednesday to report to the state's community corrections centre.
Cunliffe posed as a policeman when he pulled over the 21-year-old female and then abducted her at gun point in May, 1999.
The woman was thrown in the backseat of the car, with her hands cuffed and her legs bound, and driven to a shed off High St, Belmont. There, in a dungeon-like alcove, she was gagged, blindfolded and strapped to a chair that was bolted to the floor. He attached a fake bomb to her and raped her.
A detective later described the dungeon as being like something out of Silence of the Lambs

Geelong Advertiser 17-4-2011
Jeff Whalley
http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2011/04/17/253891_news.html

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`Silence of Lambs' rapist free in days

A GROVEDALE sex monster who kidnapped, raped and tortured a university student in a "Silence of the Lambs-style dungeon" will be released from prison next week.
Leslie Cunliffe was originally sentenced to 20 years jail for the crime but the Court of Appeal cut that by five years in 2000 and ordered he serve a minimum of 12 years.
Cunliffe posed as a policeman when he pulled over his 21-year-old female victim and abducted her at gun point in May, 1999.
The woman was thrown in the backseat of the car, with her hands cuffed and her legs bound, and driven to a shed off High St, Belmont, near where the Coles supermarket is now.
There, in a dungeon-like alcove, she was gagged, blindfolded and strapped to a chair that was bolted to the floor.
The father-of-two attached a fake bomb to his terrified victim and took a photo of her.

He included the photo in a ransom note to her family that demanded $1 million and included the words "obey the rules or she gets whacked here and now".
He also forced the woman to leave a message on her parents' phone saying "Dad ... I'm being held for ransom".
During her seven-hour torment, the woman was also raped.
Her ordeal came to an end when Cunliffe left the shed to pick up food and drink and she managed to free herself and get help after a shop keeper heard her screams.
Parole Board general manager David Provan told the Geelong Advertiser yesterday that the board decided to release Cunliffe on Saturday, April 16, after reviewing files and his participation in rehabilitation programs.
"He will be subjected to a strict supervision regime," Mr Provan said.
He said special conditions were attached to Cunliffe's release and they could include restrictions on who he associates with or contacts, ongoing assessment and treatment and where the offender must reside.
"If Mr Cunliffe fails to comply with any condition of his order, he will be immediately reported to the board," Mr Provan said.
A close friend of the victim's family said crimes like these deserved longer sentences and dubbed Cunliffe's early release as "outrageous".
"`Leslie Neil Cunliffe is a beast the lowest beast in the category of beastliness," the outraged friend said.
"The haunting memories it left and the public revulsion it sparked showed the inadequacy of the (Court of Appeal) sentence imposed.
"The victim was young and vulnerable and is scarred for life."
Crime Victims Support Association president Noel McNamara blasted the Parole Board decision.
"It's absolutely disgusting. That was a shocking traumatic time for that girl," he said.
"It's not good enough. What he did, he should serve out the full time. It was brutal."
After Cunliffe's sentence in November 1999, a Sexual Offenders Squad senior detective said the crime was "bizarre and unbelievable".
"This was the most horrendous and atrocious crime that Victoria has seen for years," she said.
"The dungeon was to me something out of (horror film) Silence of the Lambs."
In the Court of Appeal's 2000 judgement, it said the 20-year jail term was outside the range open to the judge.
"While deploring the appalling crimes of the appellant and seeking in no way to excuse them or to diminish the terrifying experience undergone by the complainant and her immediate family, or indeed to ignore the general revulsion of the community at large at such crimes, I consider that on this occasion the sentencing discretion did miscarry," the judgement said.
Cunliffe, formerly of Greenville Drive, Grovedale, pleaded guilty to charges of kidnapping, blackmail, two of false imprisonment, rape, indecent assault, making a bomb hoax and using a firearm to kidnap.

Geelong Advertiser (6-4-2011)
Aleks Devic
http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2011/04/06/252101_news.html

Time Off For A Fiend

A KIDNAPPER who tortured and raped a woman he held captive won a lighter sentence yesterday.
The Court of Appeal found Leslie Neil Cunliffe's 20-year sentence was too harsh � even though the judges noted he had wrecked the lives of the victim and her family.
Delivering the court's reasons, Justice John D. Philllps said Cunliffe was, a hard-working family man � and because of the victim's courage and resourcefulness her ordeal did not last long.
Cunliffe, who held his victim in a Silence of the Lambs-style dungeon, had five years cut from the maximum term. He will now serve only a 12-year minimum.
His 21-year-old victim was hooded, bound and gagged in a chair bolted to the floor, and a fake bomb was strapped to her chest.
As she sat waiting to die Cunliffe demanded a $1 million ransom and raped her.
The appeal judges' decision caused outrage yesterday, particularly as it came hard on the heels of the furore over the life and crimes of serial rapist and murderer Peter Dupas.
Dupas was marked as a potential killer more than 25 years ago but every time he raped he was given parole and freed to commit further crime's against women.
The predatory Dupas will be sentenced next week for the murder of psychotherapist Nicole Patterson.
Crime Victims Support Association president Noel McNamara said judges had to be made accountable to the public.
"People have completely lost faith in the justice system," Mr McNamara said.
"We have the revelations about Dupas and the number of chances he got and now Cunliffe gets a reduced sentence. The victim doesn't have the right of appeal."
And a police source involved in the case was furious Cunliffe's sentence was reduced.
"This sadistic and evil man has totally relinquished his right to exist in our community," he said.
"He committed one of the most atrocious and frightening crimes that Victoria has seen for years."
In her police statement. Cunliffe's victim said she died inside as she sat naked from the waist down waiting to be raped.
"I gave up all hope of living," she said.
"I even tried to will myself to die. If he raped me, no doubt he would kill me, I thought.
"I've never felt so empty and cold in my life. It was like a part of me had died there and then."
But Justice Phillips said the total sentence for eight separate charges was too much.
"Such a sentence is crushing and went beyond what was reasonably open to the sentencing judge given the circumstance of the offending and the offender," he said.
Justice Phillips said Cunliffe's planning was bizarre and he noted that, in his opinion, the victim and her family did not suffer fear for very long.
The Supreme Court was the centre of another controversy in June when two vigilantes who bashed a gay man to death walked free on suspended sentences.
John Whiteside, 28, and Kristian Dieber, 24, chased and attacked victim Keith Hibbins after a drunk woman falsely cried rape in the Fitzroy Gardens.
There was a storm of protest at the decision and this month the Court of Appeal upheld a DPP appeal and jailed them for six years with a four-year minimum.
Yesterday's court of Justice Phillips and Justices Stephen Charles and Peter Buchanan worked almost exclusively on the civil side of the law before they were made judges.
Cunliffe, 52, of Grovedale near Geelong, carefully planned the kidnap and he prepared the dungeon in a shed, padding it with foam and covering the walls in black plastic.
He posed as a policeman and pulled the victim over in her car before handcuffing her and forcing her into his own car.
He forced the student to make a ransom demand to her parents on tape and took a Polaroid photograph of a realistic-looking explosive device strapped to her chest.
He sent the snap to the family with the words; "Obey the rules or she gets whacked here and now."
The victim escaped after freeing her bonds and screaming for help.
Mr McNamara said his association's phones were ringing "red hot" with people who were outraged at the appeal court's decision.
"It is a disgrace what Cunlitfe did to that young girl," he said.
"They should have thrown away the key.
"The problem is that it is politically incorrect to criticise the judges."
Tricia Rhodes, who has spent years helping victims of crime, said Cunliffe's prior good record was not relevant.
"If you commit a horrific crime like this it doesn't matter that you haven't done it before," said the former president of the Victims of Crime Assistance League.
"Thank God he hasn't done it before and the community is saying he should never get the chance to do it again.
"This young woman will never recover from this crime and neither will her family. Every time they answer the phone Cunliffe's voice will haunt them."

AAP (19-8-2000)
Norrie Ross

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