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Name: Derek Percy - CHILD KILLER

Age: 59yrs old

State: VIC

Sentence:Jailed in 1969 (insanity plea).. He is currently (2005) still in prison.

Offence/Other: In 1969 Percy was was found not guilty by reason of insanity, of raping and murdering, then mutilating a 12yr old girl. In 1998, Justice Geoff Eames, refused Percys release into the community. He said that Percy was still a serious danger to children and had never sought treatment for his unusual and deadly paedophile condition.

Pic- Derek Percy

Pic- Derek Percy












Childkiller to Give Evidence on Girl's 41-year-old Disappearance

A CONVICTED childkiller linked to the disappearance of the Beaumont children has been called to give evidence about a girl who went missing 41 years ago.
Derek Ernest Percy has been called to give evidence in the coronial inquest into the disappearance and presumed death of seven-year-old Linda Stilwell in 1968.
Percy has been in prison for 40 years over the murder of 12-year-old Yvonne Tuohy and has been linked to Australia's most notorious child killings of the 1960s, including the Beaumont children in Adelaide in 1966 and teenagers Christine Sharrock and Marianne Schmidt at Wanda beach in Sydney in 1965.
The inquest at the Victorian Coroner's Court is examining how Linda disappeared from the foreshore at St Kilda beach in August 1968.
Linda's mother, sister and brother appeared deeply affected when Percy, 61, entered the court after being brought up from the cells under the County Court building.
His thin face was framed by a long white beard and balding hair as he sat expressionless in a dark suit, flanked by two guards.
His lawyer Paul Higham has objected to him giving evidence on the grounds of self incrimination.

AAP (11-12-2009)








New Bid On 1968 Murder- Killer Faces Inquest

Sadistic child killer Derek Percy will be quizzed at an inquest that could ulock the secrets of Australia's most baffling child murders.
He will be subpoenaed to give evidence at the inquest into the 1968 murderof Sydney toddler Simon Brook.
Breaking three decades of silence, the boy's father, Donald Brook, said he hoped justice would be done.
"It is in the public interest that the facts should be established...even after such a long time." This is partly becuase it encourages trust in the police and in judicial process.
"It is also partly because, assuming that the facts can be reliably established, it may become impossible to make sure that no other child will ever suffer the same fate, at the same hands."
Prof Brooks will be among those called to testify in the hearing, to be held at the Glebe Coroner's Court in Sydney. Detectives from Victoria and New South Wales and an identity expert will also give evidence.
A court spokesman said the inquest would be held in mid-december.
The move follows a renewed push from the Victorian Police cold case unit to re-examine the suspected crimes of Percy. The Brook case is one in a string of unsolved child murders and disappearances over which Percy was recently questioned.
Three-year-old Simon Brook's body was found in bushes near the family home at Glebe Point on May 19, 1968.
An autopsy later found balls of newspaper stuffed down his throat.
During the 1969 inquest into the child's death, a coroner ruled that the boy had died form suffocaiton.
"It would be almost impossible to find words to express the revulsion felt at the fiendish crime perpetrated on this child," the coroner said at the time.
The coroner found the death had been caused by an unknown person.
Now a different coroner will now be asked to decide wether, on the balance of probabilities, Percy was that person.
Percy remains among one of Victoria's longest serving prisoners after his trial over the murder of Yvonne Tuohy at Victoria's Western Port Beach in 1969.
He was found not guilty on the grounds of insanity, but jailed at the Governor's pleasure.
Victorian police have been working with detectives in three other states and territories to investigate Percy over other child murders dating back almost 40 years.

Sunday Mail (20-11-2005)
Carly Crawford




Child Killer Pockets Navy Pension

VICTORIA'S most evil man has amassed a fortune from taxpayers.
Sadistic pedophile Derek Percy has pocketed about $177,000 from a government-funded naval pension in the 36 years he has spent behind bars.
He has told police he earns almost $200 a fortnight from the pension, which he has received since his discharge from the navy in 1969.
The discharge followed his arrest for the horrific torture and murder of 12-year-old Victorian girl Yvonne Tuohy at Western Port Beach in July that year.
Percy has since emerged as a suspect in eight other child murders across three states in the 1960s.
He has been in jail, at the Governor's pleasure, since the jury in the Tuohy case found him not guilty by insanity.
But a string of psychiatric reports in recent years have found him to be bad, not mad, and showing no remorse.
"The most serious aspect of his personality is his sadistic fantasy life which revolves around children, their torture and mutilation," said a report.
It is believed he may have used some of the money to pay lawyers at his various court hearings and reviews. He reportedly has also invested in gold.
His total pension is almost four times that awarded to the man who helped jail him, Shane Spiller.
Mr Spiller, who vanished from Wyndham in NSW in 2002, was awarded $50,000 in victim's compensation in 2000. As an 11-year-old boy, Mr Spiller was with Yvonne Tuohy when she was abducted, and gave police a description of Percy's car.
The State Government has joined victims' groups in urging an end to Percy's taxpayer-funded bonanza.
Police Minister Tim Holding said Percy should give his pension cheques to the families of his victims. "It's a great shame that money that should be going to veterans and their dependents is instead being spent on a man who has committed such a horrendous crime.
"If this person had even a shred of decency he would give this money to people who have suffered as a result of his actions," he said.
"I would call on him to do this and to finally express remorse for his heinous crimes."
Crime Victims Support Association president Noel McNamara called on the Federal Government to cut Percy's pension.
"The public will be shocked, and who could blame them? It's just another big stuff-up that shouldn't have happened."
"Whatever he's got should be confiscated and the pension should stop."
The office of Federal Veterans' Affairs Minister, De-Anne Kelly, directed the Sunday Herald Sun to the Department of Defence. A spokesman said the department would offer a response to the "sensitive" case next week.

Sunday Herald Sun (8-5-2005)
Carly Crawford





Man Questioned Over Beaumont Mystery

DETECTIVES will question notorious child killer Derek Ernest Percy over the disappearance of the Beaumont children in Adelaide almost 40 years ago.
The disappearance of Jane, aged 9, Arnna, 7, and Grant, 4, near Glenelg Beach, Adelaide, on Australia Day 1966, remains one of the nation's most baffling mysteries. In an unlisted hearing in Melbourne Magistrates Court today, homicide detectives from Victoria's cold case unit and police from three other states were granted permission to quiz Percy over the crime.
Percy, in his late 50s, is Victoria's longest-serving prisoner.
He has spent 35 years in Ararat prison for the rape, torture and murder of 12-year-old Yvonne Elizabeth Tuohy.
He abducted her from a spot near the beach in the Warneet area of South Gippsland on July 20, 1969.
"This application has been sought following investigations by a multi-jurisdictional taskforce set up in early 2004," Inspector Craig Walsh said.
"The task force includes detectives from Victoria, New South Wales, ACT and South Australia who are reviewing a number of unsolved murders and suspicious disappearances of children between 1965 and 1968."
Media reports last week suggested Tasmanian Police Commissioner Richard McCreadie believed convicted child killer James O'Neill could have been responsible for the Beaumont abduction.
But Mr McCreadie and South Australia police rejected the reports, saying O'Neill had been investigated and there was no evidence to link the prisoner to the case.

AAP (2-2-2005)




Murder Witness Vanishes In Suspicious Circumstances

THE witness whose testimony helped jail suspected child serial killer Derek Ernest Percy disappeared in suspicious circumstances in 2002, shortly after he received a secret crimes compensation payout for decades of trauma.
Shane was walking with his friend Yvonne Tuohy, 12, on the beach at Warneet when Percy confronted them on July 20, 1969.
Percy abducted, tortured and killed the girl, but Shane escaped after he waved a small tomahawk.
Percy is now the suspect in eight unsolved child murders from the 1960s. They include Adelaide's Beaumont children, who disappeared from Glenelg Beach on Australia Day, 1966.
Police from Victoria, NSW, South Australia and the ACT interviewed Percy in Melbourne on Wednesday after detectives were granted a magistrate's order to question him. Percy was returned to Ararat Prison yesterday.
Percy was identified and arrested largely on the recollections of Shane, then aged 11. The boy described the man, his car and accurately identified a navy insignia on the vehicle.
Percy, a rating, was stationed at nearby HMAS Cerberus. Police found him washing blood from his clothes at the base.
Percy was found unfit to plead over the Tuohy murder on the grounds of insanity. He has been in custody ever since.
Shane remained terrified of Percy.
"What happened stuffed me... In the line-up at Russell Street (police station), I had to pick him," he told The Age in 1998. "I had to walk up and point right at his nose. The look he gave me. I can still remember it.
In 2000, Shane applied for crimes compensation and was awarded $5000. On appeal to VCAT he received the maximum $50,000.
In late August 2002, Shane disappeared from the south- east NSW town of Wyndham, where he had lived for years. A Victorian police source said he feared Shane had been killed for his compensation payout. His four-wheel-drive vehicle is still parked at the front and squatters have moved into the house.
A resident who knew him said: "He was always saying someone was after him. No one knows what happened to him."
Local publican Bernadette Godfrey said: "He was really scared. He told me that one day he might just take off."
Police are preparing a brief of evidence for the coroner on Shane's disappearance.
Percy was interviewed on Wednesday about Christine Sharrock and Marianne Schmidt, who were murdered on Sydney's Wanda Beach in January 1965; the disappearance of the three Beaumont children, Jane, Arnna and Grant, in Adelaide in 1966; Alan Redston, a six-year-old murdered in Canberra in September 1966; Simon Brook, a young boy killed in Sydney in 1968; and Linda Stiwell, 7, abducted from St Kilda in August 1968.
Percy made no admissions and said he could not remember what he said when interviewed about some of the murders in 1970.
A prison report stated: "Early in his incarceration he was questioned by police about similar child murders in NSW, South Australia and Victoria, where similar acts of sadism were carried out on victims."
While Percy was found unfit to plead on the grounds of insanity, psychiatrists who have interviewed him since say there are no signs of mental disease.
Professor Paul Mullen wrote: "In common with other psychiatrists who have examined Mr Percy subsequent to his trial in 1970, I could find no evidence suggestive of psychiatric illness."

AAP (2-2-2005)




 

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