258:, claiming that his father, Jack van Krevel, had sexually and physically assaulted him during his childhood and that this had caused him to lose control when each of O'Hearn and Arkell had sexually propositioned him and this caused flashbacks of his troubled childhood. Valera's evidence was that he was propositioned by O'Hearn immediately before the killing occurred while Arkell had seduced him and that they had been in a sexual relationship for more than a year but Arkell wanted him to be the active partner for the first time immediately before Valera killed him. In convicting Valera of murder the jury had rejected the homosexual advance defence. In sentencing Valera to two terms of life imprisonment, Justice Tim Studdert found that Valera's father had been violent towards him, but rejected Valera's evidence that he had been sexually abused by his father or that either O'Hearn or Arkell had propositioned him and that this prompted a loss of self control.
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parallel incised wounds on the lower chest. He was decapitated, with his head later found in the kitchen sink. As stated by Woods, the intestines were then displayed on a silver tray from O'Hearn's living room. The severed hand of O'Hearn was used to draw a pentagram and an inverted crucifix on the living room walls. Valera happened to live only a few houses away from O'Hearn. Valera was only 19 years old at the time of the murder.
211:, was murdered in his Wollongong home on 26 June 1998. His head had been smashed in with a bedside lamp, with the electric cord wrapped tightly around his neck. Like with the O'Hearn murder, post mortem injuries had occurred. Tie pins were stuck in Arkell's eyes and cheeks. Arkell had been mentioned in the
122:. Valera handed himself into police after the murders, and in court accused his father of violent and sexual abuse, citing this as the reason he himself turned violent. His sister, Belinda van Krevel, later organised for their father to be murdered by a family friend. Valera is currently incarcerated at the
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home. It was later found that Valera's sister and van Krevel's daughter, Belinda van Krevel, had 'asked' Keith
Schreiber (a friend of Valera's who was also a suspect in the O'Hearn murder) to kill her father because he was molesting her two-year-old daughter, and blamed him for Valera's imprisonment.
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Belinda van Krevel, who had been in a relationship with
Schreiber, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six years' imprisonment, with a non-parole period of three and a half years. She was released from prison on 1 June 2007, saying "I just want to get on with my life". She was subsequently arrested
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Post mortem injuries to O'Hearn were uniquely gruesome. The attending forensic pathologist, Dr Allan Cala, determined these injuries had indeed been caused post-death due to minimal blood being associated with these injuries. O'Hearn had been mutilated, with Dr Cala observing five intersecting and
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on 27 December 1997. However, detectives concluding that O'Hearn was neither known to Arkell, or involved in the same illicit sexual activities. Valera was later cleared by detectives of the Parkin murder. In March 2000, detectives charged 20-year-old
Christopher Robinson for the murder of Trevor
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It was a scene that was captured on the photographs then taken and tendered in evidence at the trial. These photographs comprehensively depict what was described in oral evidence and they are acutely disturbing." Studdert noted previous court decisions observing that some cases where the level of
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Few leads were produced from the O'Hearn crime scene, and police quickly realised that
Schreiber was not involved as he had been residing elsewhere on the day of the murder for work. At the Arkell murder however, a pair of bloodstained pants and boots lead to a tip-off from a woman claiming these
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After learning about a man with satanic leanings named Keith
Schreiber, police attended his residence and spoke to Valera, who was then Schreiber's roommate. A number of satanic drawings were found in Schreiber's possession, which were noted as being consistent with the crime scene of the O'Hearn
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Wollongong Police Station where he then confessed. Valera told police that the killing of O'Hearn was "just random" and that he didn't know if O'Hearn was homosexual or not. He had killed Arkell, an alleged
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culpability is so extreme that community interest in retribution and punishment can only be met through a life sentence. Studdert then stated the "Heinousness involved in these two killings does not allow for the imposition of anything less than imprisonment for life".
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belonged to her ex-boyfriend, Valera. Valera's interview notes from when police had spoken to him about
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