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| Name: winnmom | Date: Aug 27th, 2007 10:54 PM |
| WELL i GUESS i AM WRONG....LOL... JUST SEEMED LIKE IT. ↑ |
| Name: rain | Date: Aug 27th, 2007 10:57 PM |
| do you need bail or what? wait, I need to know why you are in there? ↑ |
| Name: winnmom | Date: Aug 27th, 2007 11:00 PM |
| lmao Rain ↑ |
| Name: Randi | Date: Aug 27th, 2007 11:08 PM |
| I will help you out winn LOL Sorry, it's kind of a sick story. A boastful Brisbane criminal with a very big mouth has talked himself into a lengthy prison sentence after admitting he tried to lure a teenage friend to his death inside the grounds of the old Boggo Road jail two years ago. Police didn't even know about the "savage and brutal" attack on 16-year-old James Gilder until his former mate Taukiri Christopher Keen volunteered the information while being questioned about a series of unrelated property offences in January last year. Keen, 20, also confesed to killing several homeless people and burying their bodies near the abandoned jail site, although police were unable to corroborate his claims. At Brisbane's Supreme Court this morning, Keen was sentenced to nine years behind bars after pleading guilty to the attempted murder of Gilders, whom he stabbed in the neck with a screwdriver before dropping two basketball-sized rocks onto his head. The court was told the pair had met through Keen's brother but hadn't seen each other for several months while Keen, a career criminal, had been serving a prison term. On October 2, 2005, Keen and his girlfriend had been hanging around the CBD with another man when they ran into Gilders at an inner-city railway station. About midnight, Keen suggested they take a tour of the old jail because he knew about a hole in the building's wall. Crown prosecutor Michael Lehane said the group then spent about half an hour wandering the grounds before attempting to leave. But as Gilders bent down to give Keen a "boost" over the jail's fence, the older man launched his blindside attack. After being stabbed in the neck, Gilders was punched to the ground before being smashed over the head with the rocks, breaking his jaw. Keen, who had earlier bragged that he was a serial killer, asked Gilders if he was dead yet, to which his badly injured victim stoically replied: "Not even close, brother". Afterwards, Keen asked to shake Gilders' hand before leaving him to climb out of the jail and call himself an ambulance. Three months later, Keen was being interviewed by police about a series of unrelated break and enter offences when he revealed the attack, which was motivated by the mistaken belief that Gilders had slept with his girlfriend. "I said 'Welcome to jail, there's no way out, there's walls all around us'," Keen confessed. "Then I just started stabbing into him." The court heard while Keen was leading investigators to the spot where the attack had occurred he also offered:"Do you want me to show you where some bodies are? I know a few homeless people have been killed." When asked who had killed them, Keen replied: "I did". Mr Lehane said police had been investigating the "macabre" murder of numerous homeless people in NSW and Queensland, however they had no evidence to substantiate Keen's assertion that he was the killer. Keen's defence barrister, David Kent, said his client had grown up in New Zealand and had fallen under the influence of violent criminal gangs at an early age. By 14, he was using drugs and had witnessed a murder, triggering post traumatic stress disorder and other mental health issues that had continued into adulthood, Mr Kent said. "You essentially went off the rails," Justice Ann Lyons said after considering an appropriate punishment. "Because of your confession, you brought the offence to the attention of authorities. "I would agree that your co-operation has been in the unusually high category." She ordered Keen, who also pleaded guilty to 28 other offences including breaking and entering and stealing, serve at least half of his nine-year sentence. He will be eligible for parole in July 2010 ↑ |
