NSW: Teenage thrill killer a danger to society court told

AAP General News (Australia)
08-03-2000
NSW: Teenage thrill killer a danger to society court told

By Gavin Lower

SYDNEY, Aug 3 AAP - A teenager who thrill bashed and stabbed a man to death and then
mutilated his body was a grave danger to society, a court was told today.

Crown prosecutor Mark Marien told Justice Michael Adams during a submissions on sentence
hearing in the New South Wales Supreme Court that the killing had been premeditated and
"carried out in a horrible and violent manner".

"The Crown submits that this was a killing in the nature of a thrill killing carried
out for some form of gratification," he said.

The youth, who was aged 17-and-a-half at the time and cannot be named, has pleaded
guilty to murdering Trevor Parkin, 36, at Glebe, in Sydney's inner west, on December 27,
1997.

Mr Parkin's body was found in his unit with his hands bound behind his back with massive
head injuries and multiple stab wounds to his body.

His bowel had been removed from his body and one of his testes found in the kitchen sink.

Mr Marien said the youth had given a number of different accounts of what happened
on the night, including that he killed Mr Parkin because he made a sexual advance on him
and that Mr Parkin pulled a knife.

He submitted that Justice Adams would reject the suggestion that Mr Parkin had made
an unwanted sexual assault upon the youth.

Mr Parkin had himself been charged with offences on young children aged from 6 to 11
years of age, he said.

Mr Marien submitted that Justice Adams would accept the version of events the youth
told a friend shortly after they happened.

In that version the youth said he met Mr Parkin at Central Station, in the city, and
went with him to his unit where they smoked marijuana.

When Mr Parkin went to the toilet the youth looked around the unit for things to steal,
waited behind the bathroom door and then struck Mr Parkin several times when he came out
with a bowling pin he had found.

While Mr Parkin was on the ground gasping for air the youth took a knife and "gave
him a good going over".

Mr Marien submitted that because of the youth's age the murder was not in the worst
category and should not attract a life sentence.

Tom Molomby, for the youth, submitted that the weapons used in the murder were not
taken to the scene but found there.

"Factors go to exclude the prisoner went to the place with the intention of doing harm," he said.

Justice Adams reserved his sentence.

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