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Name:
Leslie Cunliffe
Age: 57yrs old
State:Vic (Geelong).
Sentence:
Jailed for 20yrs with a minimum of 16yrs.
Sentenced reduced in August 2000 to 15yrs jail/ 12yrs non parole.
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".
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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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