Why ivan milat killed

In , pleaded guilty to the charge of possessing an unlicensed. In , a dying Milat confessed to his mother that he had committed the Belanglo backpack murders and that his little sister was also aware of his crimes and even helped 'get rid of' his gun.

Relatives acknowledged Milat had a close, if not sexual, relationship with Shirley, who he lived with in southwest Sydney when he was arrested in Of the incest, another Milat brother, Richard, said about Shirley and Ivan: "What's the difference, one or the other, if you're doing it with your sister or your mate up the road? She was cremated.

William 'Bill' Allan, born in , was jailed for car theft in , following which he decided to go clean. He worked at the Water Board for many years and married Carol Pritchard in He mortgaged his Bargo house to pay for Ivan's legal fighting fund, after pleading with sister Shirley.

Following a tense stand-off with prison minister Anthony Roberts over who will pay up for the backpacker murderer's funeral, Bill was adamant to stick to his guns and follow his year-old brother's dying wish that the family not pay a cent for the funeral. He also didn't mind what happened to his brother — whether he is left on ice in the morgue indefinitely or chucked back in jail. Which is what, years? Five years younger than Ivan, Michael looked up to his big brother and followed him into crime.

He was jailed for car theft, age 18, and then served time for seven years for armed robbery and wounding, at the age of He took his nephew Stefan's widow Sherie, under his wing and adopted her son Daniel. He later married Sherie. Les Kennedy in his book, 'Sins of the Brother', describes Mick as a pot smoker and grower. He died in at the age of 50 of a heart attack on his property in Nanango.

He was buried in Nanango Cemetery. Born in , Wally's teenage girlfriend Maureen Parsons was also seeing Ivan. Wally married Maureen in but was paranoid she was having an affair with Ivan, which they did have on and off for about a year. They had two children, Robert and Susan but divorced in Maureen said, in an interview with the Daily Mail, that Milat died to her "20 or so years ago".

She said she believed Milat was far from innocent and struggled to understand how the Milat family deny the murders. Wally is now married to his second wife Lisa. Milat and some of his brothers had had trouble with the law and police more than once visited the family's rural farm. In , two female hitchhikers testified against Milat for alleged rape at knifepoint, but he was acquitted. For years, he escaped detection for the backpacker killings, and very nearly escaped conviction altogether.

That was until a British man called Paul Onions changed everything. Milat had pulled over to pick up hitchhiker Mr Onions in Seeing a rope and a gun in the car, Mr Onions realised he was in grave danger. He managed to escape, with Milat in pursuit of him on foot along the Hume Highway, where he ensnared his victims. Mr Onions avoided the bullets Milat was firing and flagged down another motorist, who took him to the nearest police station - in a small town, Bowral.

The report lay filed in a drawer at Bowral police station for years. He called the Australian Federal Police, reminding them of his ordeal. They responded by immediately flying him back to Australia in , where an investigation was under way. Media at the time described Mr Onions as the "star witness" in Milat's four-month trial.

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But Mr Small said he believed there was a reason he did not. Police still believe Milat may have been responsible for other murders carried out with similar characteristics, including three people whose bodies were found in three other forests from to The father of year-old British backpacker Caroline Clarke, who was among those killed along with her friend Joanne Walters, 22, said the family thinks of his daughter every day.

Of the killer's demise, he added: "It's a horrible way for anybody to end their life, but then it was even more horrible the way our daughter and so many others lost theirs, so sympathy isn't high on the list, I'm afraid. Mr Clarke said a belated confession, and disclosure of where any other bodies were disposed, could bring some kind of closure to other families who he feels "desperately sorry for".

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