Mark Richard Lawrence and victim Julie Ann Muirhead
Crime by Vanda Carson
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Subscriber only A psychopathic sexual sadist and killer living in the community after serving more than 36 years behind bars for a string of violent crimes, has been arrested by police on a warrant aimed at protecting citizens from dangerous sex offenders. Mark Richard Lawrence, 59, appeared via video link from the watch-house in the Supreme Court late yesterday before Justice Peter Davis, just hours after he had his first appearance in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on a return to custody warrant issued last Thursday under the Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act.