Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Warwick Gendall - from judge to gatekeeper

In one of his final trials as a Crown prosecutor, Justice Warwick Gendall was tasked with sending reviled sex offender Stewart Murray Wilson to jail. Now, 17 years later, he has been named chairman of the Parole Board - and just as he arrives in the job, the man he worked so hard to put behind bars has been freed. Clio Francis reports.

After 45 years in the law, Justice Gendall is no longer surprised by coincidences. In 1996, months before he became a High Court judge, he was the lead prosecutor in the Crown case against Stewart Murray Wilson, the man reviled as the Beast of Blenheim.  Read more...

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