Nicole Therese Courcier McGuinness seeks parole again for 2003 dismemberment murder of Joanne Lillecrapp
This vicious murderer wants parole yet again despite her drug use – and her dismembered victim’s brother says the time has come to throw away the key to her cell.
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A drug-fuelled murderer who dismembered her victim breached her parole five times in 46 days, used $400 worth of heroin and falsified a urine test, a court has heard.
On Monday, Nicole Therese Courcier McGuinness asked the Supreme Court to forgive her for breaching her latest offences and free her from prison once again.
She told the court she wanted to get a job and possibly move to NSW – where her co-offender and former lover, Donna Lee Casagrande, has lived since her release.
However, Ron Lillecrapp – brother of the duo’s victim, Joanne – said granting further leniency to McGuinness would deny justice to his sibling’s memory.
“The risk of this vile, unpredictable animal reoffending is fairly high considering the continual patterns displayed in the past,” he said in his victim impact statement.
“She has total disregard for people’s lives and I believe she does not know right from wrong which makes her a killing psychopath.
“How many times does the court indulge this piece of work? How many times do you put the community at risk? How many chances does this monster get to have?
“And how many times do I have to come to court and defend not only Joanne – the person she murdered – but all those who have been affected by it?
“McGuinness has not rehabilitated because, if she had, we would not be here in court again and I would not have to be reliving Joanne’s murder.”
In 2003, McGuinness and Casagrande killed Joanne, then scattered her body parts at locations around Adelaide including her prize-winning strawberry patch.
McGuinness was paroled in 2021, 2022 and 2024, only to breach each of those releases by returning to drug use.
She was paroled each time over the objections of Mr Lillecrapp, whose impact statement was edited by prosecutors against his will.
They subsequently apologised and Mr Lillecrapp’s experience led to a rewrite of state law, prohibiting the editing of victim statements.
On Monday, Joseph Henderson, for McGuinness, told the court his client had breached parole five times by using morphine, benzodiazepine and “$400 worth of heroin”.
He said McGuinness had also swapped her urine sample with another parolee, and breached her curfew, within that 46-day period.
“However McGuinness is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a lost cause … she is committed to her rehabilitation and to abstinence,” he said.
Lucy Hurley, prosecuting, said that should be of little comfort to the court.
“Given the nexus between drugs and her original offending, the gravity of these breaches could not be more serious,” she said.
Justice Anne Bampton remanded McGuinness in custody for a ruling next month.
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