Apr 18 2021, 8:56 ET
A 55-year-old woman was killed by a ‘depraved and ruthless’ trucker who then moved into her home and constructed a lie about her disappearance.
The body of Julie Anne Cooper was found dumped in a gully in bushland in Ashendon, east of Perth. She’d been sexually assaulted and strangled.
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Mathew Mark Hemsley, 34, was found guilty by a jury of murdering 55-year-old Julie Anne CooperCredit: Facebook
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Julie Anne Cooper, 55, was found dumped in a gully in bushland east of PerthCredit: Facebook
The judge that convicted Mathew Hemsley of the crime described the killer as “depraved and ruthless”.
Julie had been living alone when she met the 34-year-old truck driver, at the Saint George Hotel in Innaloo, Perth.
Depraved trucker killed stranger after her good deed - then moved into her home
Kind-hearted grandmother Julie Anne Cooper, 55, offered to let Mathew Hemsley, then 33, charge his mobile in her car - the next thing her neighbours knew, she had vanished to be with her “new man”
Julie was a doting grandmother (Image: 9News)
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