Nathan Greenfield on parole eight years after killing June Wallis

A killer husband is free just eight years after brutally taking his wife’s life. Now, his grieving father-in-law has revealed the “life sentence” and final insult his family must endure. Warning: Disturbing content

Paul Wallis is devastated the man who killed his daughter June is not only free, but also profiting from his family's pain.

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Paul Wallis wakes every day knowing the man who brutally killed his daughter and left her body in a bathtub is not only a free man but also, profiting from his family’s pain.

It’s been eight years since Mr Wallis walked into the ensuite of his 32-year-old daughter June’s Pacific Haven home and found her face down, lifeless.

June’s husband, Nathan Greenfield, had beaten her (an autopsy revealed she had suffered broken ribs, a fractured thyroid and head and facial injuries) in a fit of rage that terrible day in March, 2015.

Clenching her throat and pinching her nose, Greenfield repeatedly said “I love you” as he choked the life from the mother of his two children.

Not satisfied with her absent pulse, he lent down and sucked the remaining air from her lungs – an act he would later describe as “trying to swallow her soul”.

Greenfield pleaded guilty to manslaughter when he faced Maryborough Supreme Court in February, 2018.

During the sentencing the court heard he had been in a state of paranoid psychosis, morbidly jealous and of the completely unfounded belief June was cheating on him.

Nathan Greenfield and June Wallis.

Financial stress was flagged as a factor in the months before the attack.

The Burrum Heads bakery owned by the couple, and their haulage business, were said to be operating at a loss and Greenfield had recently purchased an expensive car they couldn’t afford.

He was sentenced to 10 years in jail but was eligible for parole in 2023.

On July 17, Mr Wallis was informed his daughter’s killer had been released.

At that point, Greenfield had access to $30,000 – money Mr Wallis had to pay in order to keep the home, of which the husband was part owner, where his daughter had died.

The home at Pacific Haven has since been sold and the new home on the Fraser Coast really belongs to the children – Lochlan and Jade, Mr Wallis said.

“That was her house and it was a fight worth fighting for,” he said.

The money was held by the Public Trustee until Greenfield’s release.

Paul Wallis speaks out after his daughter's killer gets parole.

One of the conditions of Greenfield’s release is that he remain out of the Wide Bay area, where Mr Wallis and the two children live.

Still, Mr Wallis fumes when he thinks of the sentence handed down to Greenfield and the money he has received.

“I just think the damage he’s done and to get away as light as what he did – I think it’s wrong,” he said.

“He gets to go on with his merry little life.”

To dismiss her death as domestic violence was an insult to anyone who had lost a family member, Mr Wallis said.

“The people who got the life sentence were June and her family.

“It’s something you never recover from.”

It was Mr Wallis who found his beloved daughter’s body the morning following her death.

Nathan Greenfield is charged with the manslaughter of the mother (June Wallis) of his two children.

The day June was killed, Greenfield left the family home, taking his then teenage daughter with him.

With Jade in the passenger seat, Greenfield picked up a gun, stopped the car, broke two mobile phones on the tow bar and threw them into a dry creek bed.

He then led police on a wild chase almost 100km down the Bruce Hwy towards Gympie, where stingers were deployed to puncture his tyres.

He pointed a gun twice at police before being arrested.

In the years since, Mr Wallis has taken on the responsibility of raising June’s children.

He is proud of the people Lochlan and Jade have become.

Both say they will never speak to their father again.

When he thinks of June now, it’s her good nature that comes to mind, he said.

“That smile,” Mr Wallis said.

June Wallis was killed by her husband, Nathan Greenfield.

“The biggest, beaming smile.

“Her personality was happy go lucky.”

Even now, old customers from the bakery remember that smile and June’s passion and dedication to horses and her children and the husband who would betray her.

“She didn’t deserve to die. She certainly didn’t deserve to die.

“There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t wake up and see her face.”