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State: VIC Sentence: Sentenced in 1994 to 3yrs 9months jail/ 2yrs 9months non parole. Convicted again in August 2000 in the VIC Supreme Court to life in jail. Offence/Other: Repeat Offender..Has priors for rape and the abduction of women. Current conviction for the brutal murder of a young woman (Nicole Patterson). Is now on the Victorian Sex Offender Registry which will be linked to a National database tracking sex offenders interstate and overseas. |
Above- Pics Peter Dupas
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Peter Dupas Linked To Six Brutal Slayings TRIPLE murderer Peter Norris Dupas - a sex monster who mutilates women after stabbing them - could go down as one of the nation's worst serial killers as police step up investigations into the unsolved stabbing murders of three other women. Dupas - who first stabbed a woman when he was 15 years old and has multiple rape convictions - was found guilty by a Victorian Supreme Court jury yesterday of stabbing 25-year-old Mersina Halvagis almost 40 times in a Melbourne cemetery in 1997 as the 25-year-old tended her grandmother's grave. Police suspect Dupas - whose jailyard confession to a disgraced solicitor gave detectives the evidence they needed to lay charges - also stabbed to death 47-year-old Helen McMahon in 1985, 31-year-old Renita Brunton in 1993, and 95-year-old Kathleen Downes in 1997. He was given two life sentences with no minimum for killing psychotherapist Nicole Patterson in 1999 and prostitute Margaret Maher in 1997. Women mutilated, breasts cut off Both women were repeatedly stabbed and then mutilated. Nicole Patterson's breasts were cut off by the serial killer and Margaret Maher's breast was sliced off and placed in her mouth before she was dumped by the side of the road. Police believe McMahon - a mother of four stabbed on Rye beach on the Victoria's Mornington Penisula while sunbathing - was Dupas's first murder victim. Injuries to the 47-year-old were trademark Dupas, with stab wounds concentrated around the breasts and a blow inflicted to the right side of the head. A 1969 incident in which someone broke into a mortuary at Melbourne's Austin Hospital and mutilated the bodies of two elderly women has also been linked to Dupas, with a slash on the thigh of one of the bodies bearing a strong resemblance to a wound on Patterson's thigh. Dupas's conviction yesterday ended a 10-year battle for justice for her parents, George and Christina Halvagis, who wept in court as the verdict was brought down and swore outside court that Dupas would "rot in hell". Christina Halvagis thanked God and quietly spoke her daughter's name as an expressionless Dupas was led from the dock. Killer 'laughed in court' Outside court, she spoke bitterly of the killer's demeanour during the trial. "He laughed, he laughed," Mrs Halvagis said. "God will pay him. He will rot in hell." The former solicitor, convicted drug smuggler Andrew Roderick Fraser, now stands to gain a large chunk of the $1 million reward put up by police for any information that led to a conviction for Halvagis's murder. Fraser told the court that a sweating, trembling Dupas spontaneously leapt from his bed in a jail cell in Fulham prison in 2002 and performed a "pantomime" of Halvagis's murder in front of the solicitor. The killer also stashed weapons in the prison gardens, where the two men worked. At one point when Fraser discovered a homemade knife, Dupas weighed it up in his hands and chanted "Mersina, Mersina". Supporting evidence presented to the jury revealed that Dupas had attempted to change his appearance after the murder, requesting a new hairstyle and ordering new glasses. Witnesses placed him at the graveyard in the mid-afternoon of November 1, with one woman telling a jury she felt a "presence" while standing by a relative's grave, and was so chilled by the man, who resembled Dupas, that she fled the graveyard. Judge Philip Cummins scheduled a pre-sentence plea hearing for August 17. The Australian (10-8-2007) Natasha Robinson |
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Rot In Hell, Mother Tells Dupas TRIPLE killer Peter Dupas will "rot in hell" after he was found guilty today of the frenzied stabbing murder of Mersina Halvagis, the Melbourne woman's mother said. A jury took a day and a half to find Dupas guilty of stabbing 25-year-old Ms Halvagis more than 30 times in her chest and stomach as she tended her grandmother's grave at Fawkner Cemetery on November 1, 1997. The verdict was met with gasps and cheers from Ms Halvagis' family in the Victorian Supreme Court. Her father George Halvagis burst into tears while Dupas remained motionless in the dock. The victim's mother Christina broke down outside court, saying Dupas had laughed during the trial. "He laughed, he laughed,'' a weeping Mrs Halvagis said. "He will rot in hell, he will rot in hell.'' Nick Halvagis described how difficult it was to be in the same room as the man who killed his sister. "You have got to think for five weeks we sat opposite a guy who has now been convicted of three murders of innocent women,'' he said. "I don't know how any person could sit in that room with the lowest form of human existence and not get angry. Dupas, 54, formerly of Pascoe Vale, had pleaded not guilty. In an unusual move, Justice Philip Cummins told the jury at the outset of the trial that Dupas was convicted in 2000 of the murder of Nicole Patterson and in 2004 of the murder of Margaret Maher. But jurors were not told Dupas is serving two life sentences without parole for the two women's murders. The crown's star witness was convicted drug smuggler and disgraced solicitor, Andrew Fraser, who told the court Dupas confessed to Ms Halvagis' murder while the pair were in Port Phillip Prison. He said Dupas performed a jail cell "pantomime'' of how he killed Ms Halvagis, which Mr Fraser re-enacted for jurors. Mr Fraser said Dupas told him he left no forensic traces at the cemetery and chanted "Mersina, Mersina'' while cradling a knife. Aside from Mr Fraser, the prosecution relied on three witnesses placing a man matching Dupas's description at the cemetery on the day Ms Halvagis was stabbed. Prosecutor Colin Hillman, SC, told the jury Dupas changed his glasses and hair after the crime. Supervising investigator Jeff Maher told reporters outside court he was relieved at today's guilty verdict. Mr Maher praised the Halvagis family for their behaviour throughout the 10-year investigation and the trial. "I would like to compliment George (Halvagis) on the way he has conducted himself right through not only the police investigations but throughout the trial,'' he said. "It's been a long and winding road and I'm glad it's over.'' Justice Cummins adjourned the matter for a pre-sentence hearing on August 17. AAP (9-8-2007) |
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Dupas Charged Over Cemetery Stabbing PETER Norris Dupas will face a Melbourne court today charged over the 1997 murder of Mersina Halvagis, who was stabbed to death at a suburban cemetery. A Victoria Police spokesman said police today served papers on Dupas southwest of Melbourne. Dupas, 52, is due to appear in Melbourne Magistrates Court at 2pm (AEST) today via video link. On August 1, a coroner adjourned the inquest into Ms Halvagis's death to give police more time to continue their nine-year investigation into the case. Ms Halvagis was stabbed fatally in the Fawkner cemetery while tending her grandmother's grave on November 1, 1997. The Director of Public Prosecutions, Paul Coghlan, QC, requested the adjournment, telling the coroner inquiries were continuing in the case. AAP (11-9-2006) |
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Prostitute Killer Loses Appeal CONVICTED double murderer Peter Norris Dupas lost an appeal today against his second conviction and life sentence. Dupas, 51, was jailed for life without parole in August last year for the murder of prostitute Margaret Maher. The 40-year-old's partially clad body was found in a pile of rubbish at Somerton on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula on October 4, 1997. Dupas appealed on the grounds that similar evidence regarding his conviction and life sentence in August 2000 for the murder of 28-year-old psychotherapist Nicole Amanda Patterson should not have been allowed. Ms Patterson's mutilated body was found at her Northcote home in April 1999. The three judges of the Victorian Court of Appeal were united in their decision to reject the appeal today. Justice David Harper said once the jury was satisfied Ms Maher was murdered, the question of the identity of the murderer became the sole issue. "The inference that the man who mutilated the body of Nicole Patterson was the same person who had earlier mutilated the body of Margaret Maher is supported by the underlying unity in the extraordinary nature of the method and incidents surrounding the two cases," he said. "Thus supported, the inference becomes so strong as to be capable of removing any reasonable doubt." And Chief Justice Marilyn Warren said the jury had been correctly directed by the trial judge. "It is only in extreme cases that pre-trial media coverage will cause a miscarriage of justice to the point where jury directions will not suffice," she said in her judgment. The decision was welcomed by George Halvagis, whose 25-year-old daughter Mersina was stabbed to death at the Fawkner cemetery in Melbourne's north, almost eight years ago. A police review of that murder has examined evidence linking Dupas to the scene of the crime. The investigation into his daughter's death was continuing, he said. AAP (26-8-2005) |
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Inquest To Focus On Known Killer It took less than a minute for the long-awaited inquest on Mersina Halvagis to get to the heart of the matter. Eight years and 20 days after her death, the state's Director of Public Prosecutions, Paul Coghlan, QC, told the court the date Ms Halvagis was born and the date she was brutally murdered. Then he formally announced that Peter Dupas, 52, was the principal suspect and most of the evidence during the inquest would centre on him. It was unusual, Mr Coghlan said, to have an inquest with such a "relatively narrow focus", but Dupas appeared to be the only visible suspect. Mr Coghlan carefully explained that, as things stood, he was not satisfied enough admissible evidence to charge Dupas with Ms Halvagis's murder. It remained to be seen what the coroner made of the evidence he would be hearing from more than 70 witnesses. Dupas, twice convicted killer and serial rapist, has refused to answer questions from police and is unlikely to appear. But Mr Coghlan, who took the unusual course of assisting State Coroner Graeme Johnstone himself, said Ms Halvagis's family has already waited eight years and it was important to finally bring the matter into the public domain. The family's sole interest, he told the court, was the truth. George and Christins Halvagis, in the black mourning clothes they've worn for eight years, had plenty of support as they braced themselves to hear sordid details of their daughter's lonely death. They were surrounded by family, friends and other crime victims, including the parents and sister of one of Dupas's known murder vicitms, psychotherapist Nicole Patterson, killed in 1999. The coroner suggested Mersina's family might spare themselves the agony of listening to medical evidence of their daughter's wound, but Mrs Halvagis refused to budge. Head bowed, dabbing at her eyes with a white handkercheif, she insisted on hearing. Mr Coghlan stressed that matters such as witness identifications and the similarities of injuries suffered by Ms Halvagis and Dupas's two known victims needed to be approached with caution. He urged anyone with information to come forward and claim the $1 million reward on offer. Mr Coghlan said evidence would be called from witnesses at the cemetery on November 1, 1997, who saw a suspicious or threatening male, including a woman who created a photofit strongly resembling Dupas. Forensic pathologist Prof David Ranson told the inquest attacks on three women- Ms Halvagis, Ms Patterson and a woman Dupas was convicted of killing in 1997, prostitute Margaret Maher- focused on the chest, with specific mutilation of Ms Patterson and Ms Maher a significant feature. Prof Ranson said such mutilation was not present in Ms Halvagis's case and conceded it was a "striking difference." Mr Johnstone asked Prof Ranson to review the Patterson and Maher cases with the pathologist who did their autopsies to compare any similarities. Mr Johnstone was at pains to emphasise that the hearing was a coronial inquiry, an investigation into a death. Geoff Wilkinson/ Elissa Hunt |
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