Pink balloons were tied to a power pole on Bacchus Marsh’s Main
Street last week after the man who murdered Sarah Cafferkey was
sentenced to life in prison with no parole.
Supreme Court Justice Kevin Bell said Steven James Hunter, 47, now
convicted of murdering two women, did not deserve to ever be released
back into the community after accepting responsibility for “this most
heinous crime”.
Justice Bell said the murder of Ms Cafferkey, 22, on November 10
last year showed Hunter’s propensity for extreme violence from which the
community, especially young women, needed protection.
Chief Crown prosecutor Gavin Silbert SC had urged the judge to jail Hunter for life without parole because the murder of Ms Cafferkey was one of the worst of its kind.
Defence barrister Tim Marsh had argued while Hunter realised he
would have to receive a lengthy prison sentence, he should be given some
hope of release when he was “an old man and a spent force” because of his early guilty plea and the fact he knew what he had done was wrong and had shown some remorse.
– with The Age
