Wednesday, July 28, 2004

HELP, ASK FOR HELP, RECEIVING IS AN ACT OF GENEROSITY.
 
OMG...WHAT A DAY FOR ME, I AM EXHAUSTED AND LOOKING FORWARD TO CURLING UP IN BED TO WATCH "LAW & ORDER"..........LOL....LIKE I HAVE NOT HAD ENOUGH OF WORK FOR ONE DAY, I NEED A RE RUN ON THE TV.  MAN, I HAD HEAPS TO DEAL WITH TODAY....AM MENTALLY DRAINED, IT CONTINUES TOMORROW.
 
 
A MURDERER regarded as the most dangerous man in the Northern Territory prison system yesterday scuttled his chances of parole when he told a Darwin court he would kill again if released.Admitting he was still a violent man, Andy Albury, 42, fidgeted as he told the territory Supreme Court via video link from Darwin's Berrimah jail that he expected to spend the rest of his days behind bars.
"Cut the crap," Albury said.
"Everybody knows I'm going to be a risk forever."
Albury was sentenced to life in jail in 1984 after being convicted of the stabbing murder of an Aboriginal woman in Darwin. Albury cut the breasts from his victim.


Yesterday, in a rambling, semi-coherent speech, he said that all he wanted was a hot shower and for his cell walls to be painted green and blue.
"I sometimes commit offences in here for the simple reason that the police will come and interview me, and that's going to give me someone to talk to for 15 minutes," said Albury, who has always been kept in solitary confinement.
The Northern Territory Director of Public Prosecutions, Rex Wild, has asked the court that Albury never be allowed to apply for parole after the territory Government last year introduced 20-year non-parole periods for murderers.
Mr Wild has further asked that another convicted murderer, Martin Leach, be refused permission to seek parole. Leach, now 45, was sentenced to life after murdering two schoolgirls at the Berry Springs nature park, near Darwin, in 1983.
In court yesterday, Albury said he had murdered "more than one" person and had attempted to kill others while in jail. Having asked for the right to speak, he said the only thing he missed about the outside world was having a cold beer on a hot day.
"I don't want parole, I've got no interest in parole," he said. "I know that, you know that, everybody knows that."
Russell Goldflam, counsel for both Albury and Leach, later suggested to the court that Albury's comments may have been a consequence of his long incarceration.
But Chief Justice Brian Martin said Albury had shown a "calm and rational self-assessment" of his condition and of the likelihood he would kill again.
Justice Martin said any "right-thinking person" could not help but be moved by Albury's 10-minute rant, a speech he said gave an insight into the "real human tragedy" of having to lock people up for long periods of time.
The case is set to resume on October 26.

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