The Queensland Court of Appeal has ruled that a former Brisbane scout leader should spend four more years behind bars because the 26,000 images he was caught with showed such an extraordinary degree of depravity . Daniel Leslie Cooper, 42, will not be eligible for parole until 2030 after the Commonwealth Department of Public Prosecutions successfully argued that his 12-year jail sentence was manifestly inadequate . Cooper was jailed in February last year after he pleaded guilty to the possession, transmission and solicitation of more than 26,000 horrific child abuse images and videos using covert online messaging services. Brisbane Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Wilson described his offending, which began in 2016 and lasted almost two years, as lengthy, widespread and serious and depraved .
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A jury in the High Court in Christchurch found Tully guilty of killing Work and Income workers Peggy Noble and Leigh Cleveland on Monday September 1, 2014 and guilty of the attempted murder of Kim Adams.
A man who gunned down two Work and Income staff members in mid-Canterbury has had an appeal against his conviction and sentence dismissed. Russell John Tully, 54, appeared in the Court of Appeal in Christchurch in October to fight his life sentence with a minimum non-parole period of 27 years, claiming he had medical conditions that affected his mental capacity. Tully became one of New Zealand’s most notorious killers after he entered the Ashburton Work and Income office on September 1, 2014, armed with a shotgun and wearing a balaclava.