Australian police in fresh questioning over 22-year-old murder

Cecil Herbert Jones

Feb 8th, 20:14

Incidentally Camilleri is not a Maltese name but in probability Italian. Otherwise it would be spelt Kamilleri.

Gerry Cowie

Feb 8th, 19:52

A lack of people commenting on this because it does not involve a priest.....and in Australia too!

Joe Xuereb

Feb 8th, 14:50

Apologies. Kiss should have read kill. Now let me think, there are instances when the two words are interchangeable. That is when the sexual act is abused and its meaning thwarted. This often becomes a fetish, and a fetish with no bridles can lead to a blood-lust. Beware of fetishising anything; it is an unhealthy, dangerous game to play. It can easily lead to the kiss of death, very often one's own, or/and one's partner/s. Criminal/hospital archives are full of them.

There is no need to feel ashamed that this man has a Maltese surname. Every basket has its bad apple/s. More important is keeping one's nose clean and understanding, or at least trying, why people go 'crazy'.

J.C. Chetcuti

Feb 8th, 13:24

This is the documentary by Crime Investigation Australia about the murder of the Bega schoolgirls - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpvvFDIT5Hg - You don't get to be proud to hear a maltese surname in occassions like this.

Joe Xuereb

Feb 8th, 12:47

The man Camilleri is a danger to society and should not walk freely in the community. He is totally and utterly mad. A dangerous type of madness because on the surface this type of person can appear perfectly normal and functional and even holds down a job.
The judge says that he did not have the courage to kiss so he ordered his sidekick to do it. Maybe. I think it is more likely that he enjoyed seeing someone killed by HIS order. That is the extent of his psychosis.

mario micallef

Feb 8th, 12:22

That's a judge with guts! - In Malta, the killer would have been awarded yet another ridiculous jail term and back on the street before the corpses were cold...or perhaps even a nice suspended sentence :-(

T Cassar

Feb 8th, 11:21

On sentencing Camilleri, this is what the judge said:

"Using the control which you clearly had over your weaker willed but equally evil companion (Beckett), you instructed him to perform acts that, in a somewhat perverse way, it could be said that you probably did not possess the courage to perform yourself."

"It is terrible to contemplate the prospect that, as a consequence of the order which in my view justice and a proper appreciation of sentencing principles would require in your case, you may never be released from prison. However, I consider that my duty is clear. Through your own actions, you have forfeited your right ever to walk among us again.''


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bega_schoolgirl_murders