News that Sian Kingi’s killer is seeking parole has been met with a disgust best demonstrated by the noose that greeted him when he first appeared outside a court. Anyone who has met Sian’s parents knows why.
The state MP whose electorate Sian Kingi's parents live in has joined the chorus of opposition to the schoolgirl’s rapist and murderer being bailed.
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The killer who abducted, raped and murdered a 12-year-old girl in a sickening crime that shocked Australia nearly 35 years ago has made a plea for freedom.
Barrie Watts brutally killed young school girl Sian Kingi on the Sunshine Coast on November 27, 1987 with the help of his then-wife and mother-of-six Valmae Beck.
The pair lured 12-year-old Sian to help look for a white poodle with a pink bow before Watts abducted her into the backseat of a Holden Kingswood station wagon.
After gagging Sian and driving her to a remote forest, Watts performed a fantasy he shared with Beck by repeatedly sexually assaulting Sian before strangling and stabbing her.