AAP General News (Australia)
01-14-2004
QLD: Childers arsonist to appeal in June
By Ainsley Pavey
BRISBANE, Jan 14 AAP - The man jailed over the murderous Childers backpacker hostel
fire is expected to take his bid to appeal a life sentence to the High Court in June.
Robert Paul Long has already served almost two years of a 20-year sentence for the
murder of West Australian twins Kelly and Stacey Slarke.
The 41-year-old was jailed in April 2002 after a Brisbane Supreme Court jury convicted
him of deliberately lighting the blaze in which 15 backpackers died on June 23, 2000.
Families of the victims are suing the …
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