Merlynsam and Twiglet have been trawling the news to update many of our closed cases (looking for information about trials and sentencing). They have managed to close, lock and archive a number of threads over the past few days:
BRIANNA DENISON - James Biela sentenced to death by lethal injection, and 4 more life sentences handed down for other rape offences. (Death sentences automatically go to appeal, but justice has been served for Brianna.)
KHYRA ISHAQ - the step-father (Gordon, 35) was jailed for 15 years while the schizophrenic mother (Abuhamza, 31) was given an indefinite sentence for public protection with a minimum term of seven and a half years.
MAX AND CHANDLER HERNADEZ - case closed. No other person involved in the suicide/car accident. Full investigation into the lack of police response to the 911 call now complete.
AJA JOHNSON - step-father, Lester Hobbs murdered Tonya Hobbs (her mother) and then abducted Aja. Lester Hobbs later Murdered Aja and committed suicide. Case closed with the agreement of Aja's father. All convinced that nobody assisted Lester Hobbs whilst on the run from police.
KELSEY BRIGGS - Raye Dawn Smith (mother) is to serve 27 years in prison for enabling child abuse. Kelsey's stepfather, Michael Lee Porter, is serving 30 years in prison. He once was charged with sexually abusing and murdering Kelsey but pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of enabling child abuse after reaching a deal with prosecutors.
HOLLY AND DIANE FALLON - Ex-soldier Thomas Smith, 26 (a convicted sex offender who lived next door to the Fallon's) has been jailed for at least 32 years after admitting raping and murdering the 10 year-old-girl and murdering her mother at their home in Ayrshire.
EMMA AGNEW - Liam James Reid has been found guilty of the murder and rape of Emma Agnew. He has also been found guilty of the rape and attempted murder of a student in Dunedin. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a 26 year non-parole period in December 2008. This was reduced on a appeal to a minimum 23 year non-parole period in July 2009. Eligible for possible release November 2030 (at the earliest).
LUCAS WARD - Police have confirmed four-year-old Gisborne boy Lucas Ward died from drowning. the coroner will consider the report to formally record this as an accidental drowning.
TERESA CORMACK - An 'old case' from 2002 which Twiglet has updated - Jules Mikus was found guilty of her abduction, rape, sexual assualt and murder. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, preventive detention for rape, 14 years for sexual assualt and 14 years for abduction. Jules Mikus was sentenced under the laws applicable at the time of the offence - 1987 - meaning that he got a non-parole period of seven years. However he is unlikly to be paroled as the judge also saw fit to impose a sentence of preventive detention. Therefore he will serve at least 9 years 4 months before he can even be considered for possible release. Eligible for parole from February 2012.
You can find full details on the cases here: http://find-madeleine.forumotion.net/closed-cases-missing-or-abducted-archived-cases-f28/
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