‘Virgin-obsessed, remorseless’: Barrie Watts’ accomplice in murder of Sian Kingi reveals his depravity in tell-all confession

The woman who says she ‘couldn’t stop’ Barrie Watts from raping and murdering Sian Kingi revealed the depths of his obsession with virgin teenagers in a shocking interview with police. READ THE TRANSCRIPT

The following is a record of an interview at the Noosa Heads Police Station on December 14, 1987, between Valmae Fay Beck and Detective sergeant Atkinson and Detective senior sergeant Magnussen. Time commenced 10.32pm.

Q… Denotes Question by ATKINSON

A … Denotes Answer by BECK

Q1: Valmae do you agree that a short time ago you told Sergeant Magnussen and I that you wished to tell us the full story about what had happened to the little girl (Sian Kingi)?

A1: Yes.

Q2: Do you agree that I then warned you that you did not have to say anything further as anything you said might be given in evidence at Court later?

A2: Yes.

Q3: Do you understand that warning?

A3: Yeah.

Valmae Beck’s interview with police revealed what really happened to Sian Kingi

Q4: At this stage I want to again warn you that you need not answer any further questions I ask you or make any further statement in relation to the death of Sian Kingi as anything you say may be given in evidence at Court later do you understand that?

A4: Yes.

Q5: Are you prepared then to be now further interviewed about that matter?

A5: Yes.

Q6: Do you want anyone else to be present?

A6: No.

Q7: Before we go any further is there anything you want at all?

A7: No.

Q8: Are you agreeable to being interviewed like this with our conversations being recorded by me in the form of a typewritten record of interview?

A8: Yeah.

Q9: Why did you want to discuss this matter with us?

A9: I had a guilty conscience. I’ve had nightmares for two weeks. I felt the whole thing was wrong.

Valmae Beck was convicted for her involvement in the rape and murder of Noosa schoolgirl Sian Kingi in 1987.

Q10: Do you feel alright to take part in this interview?

A10: I’m alright.

Q11: Are you tired?

A11: No I’d rather talk about it now.

Q12: If you want to pause the interview for any reason will you just tell us?

A12: Yes.

Q26: What happened in the afternoon?

A26: We started arguing about the schoolgirls, because at that time of the afternoon kids were coming out of school. We were heading back towards Noosa Junction to buy a dress for me at Noosa Junction. Then Barrie told me that he wanted to get a girl, he was pretty drunk by this time. He said that if I thought anything of our marriage and I wanted our marriage to work and if I loved him and wanted to help him satisfy his obsession and his aggression. I should have said to get rid of his aggression, that’s what he said, to get rid of his aggression he had inside of him. That once he had sex with someone for the first and only time, that he’d never look at another woman or want another woman for the rest of his life, he’d be satisfied for the rest of his life.

Q27: What was the obsession he had?

A27: To have a virgin.

Q28: Had he talked about this?

A28: Yes for the last year and a half, a year and a half of frigging arguing and jealousy over schoolgirls.

Q29: Will you tell us all you can about this obsession of his?

A29: He’s always said that he’d just once like to rape somebody to feel what it felt like because he’s never raped anybody before. Every movie we watch, every video we watch, nine out of ten of them are schoolgirls or women in mini dresses. It’s pretty sickening. They’re pornographic movies from the video shop. One was called teenage prostitution. That’s the one at home, but he hasn’t watched it yet because we haven’t got a video at home. We argue about it all the time. It’s about the only thing that causes arguments in our relationship.

Q31: When Barrie said to you that he wanted to get a girl did he say anything else about that?

A31: No, he didn’t know who it was gunna be.

Barrie John Watts is serving a life sentence for the rape and murder of Noosa Schoolgirl Sian Kingi in 1987.

Q32: What time was it when he said that?

A32: About three-thirty to a quarter to four, the kids were out of school cause they were all riding on their pushbikes.

Q33: What did you believe he meant when he said that?

A33: I asked him what he meant and he said he wanted to find a virgin, he said today was the day.

Q36: What did you believe he intended to do to this girl when he found her?

A36: Rape her.

Q37: Anything else?

A37: No. He just said he wanted to rape her and make her feel pain while he was raping her and that would get the aggression out of him.

Q38: Did you believe him about that?

A38: Yes I did.

Q41: What happened after that?

A41: We stopped at a couple of little beaches on the way back again, we were arguing about this, I was really angry. We were heading towards Noosa Junction at that time. We went through Noosa Junction, up to Noosa Heads, I think we went to Tewantin. He was looking for someone to try and grab during this drive. He said we’re going to drive around until I see the right opportunity. The opportunity wasn’t there if he seen somebody there were too many people around. We came back to Noosa Junction, we drove around the shops and around Noosa Fair and that underground car park numerous times, he was just looking for somebody to walk along at the right time. But all the kids that came along in the underground car park were with somebody, parents or whatever. So we came out of the underground car park and we went into that park and I turned the car around and we were sitting there arguing while the dog was in the park. We’d just put the dog back in the car when Barrie seen that girl coming along and he told me to stop her somehow, you know to talk to her to stop her.

Sian Kingi was abducted, raped and murdered in 1987 when she was 12 by Barrie Watts and Valmae Beck who were later convicted in relation to her death.

Q42: What did he say to the best of your memory?

A42: I think he said there’s a girl coming on a bike talk to her, stop her and talk to her, which I did.

Q43: Did you argue with him about doing that?

A43: I had argued about it before but not then it was too late to argue.

Q44: Why was it too late?

A44: Because I knew he was gunna grab her.

Q45: Any other reason?

A45: [transcript unclear] had to go along with it.

Q46: Why did you have to go along with it?

A46: Because I loved him and he said that it would help our marriage to help him over the mentally unbalanced problem he had about schoolgirls. He said he thought he was mentally unbalanced.

Q52: When the girl was approaching could you have warned her?

A52: Yes.

Q53: Did you consider doing that?

A53: No it happened so quickly.

Q54: What happened?

A54: I spoke to the girl, she slowed down to go over the edge of the hump sort of from the grass on to the path, and she stopped when I spoke to her. I asked her if she’s seen a little white French poodle with a pink bow, she said no. I then said to her that it was around the park somewhere and I pointed to the path in front of her while I was talking to her and looking up the path. I didn’t see Barrie approach. Barrie approached and grabbed her and proceeded to put her in the back of the car.

Q72: What else happened as the car was driving along?

A72: He drove towards the forest out of Tewantin and went up a road with a lot of houses and I told him he was gunna run out of petrol because the tank was very low and he told me to shut up and stop worrying about the petrol tank that he knew what he was doing. And he came back down off that road onto the highway and drove into the forest on another road.

The scene of Sian Kingi’s murder.

Q73: Do you know where those roads were?

A73: Past Tewantin. The first one was near that lake or pond that I told you about before. The second one was back towards Tewantin but not very far from that, I think there was a few houses on that road too but not very many.

Q180: Could you have stopped him?

A180: I don’t think so no. I wouldn’t have been strong enough to stop him anyway.

Q181: Why do you think he killed her?

A181: Because of what he told me why he killed her to get rid of all the aggression out of his body.

Q183: Did you believe she was dead?

A183: Yeah he said she was dead.

Q196: Did you inflict any injuries on the girl yourself?

A196: No.

Q197: Do you agree that you told us before that he said that he couldn’t trust her not to give him up?

A197: Yeah.

Q198: What do you understand that he meant by that?

A198: That she’d go to the police and tell her parents.

Q199: So what did you believe he was going to do to prevent that?

A199: Kill her.

Q200: Had she lived do you believe it was a possibility that she may have identified Barrie?

A200: Yes I’d say she would yes.

Q201: Do you believe that she may also have been able to identify you?

A201: Yes.

Q202: Did that concern you at the scene?

A202: I guess the answer is yes, but I have to be careful how I answer that. I mean it makes me an accessory to murder, but I guess I am an accessory to murder, it couldn’t be any worse.

Valmae Beck, pictured in custody after the murder of Sian Kingi.

Q205: When he first talked about it at Noosa that day, did you believe that he was going to kill the girl?

A205: No.

Q206: Did you consider that that might happen?

A206: No, he said that he wanted to be the first and only guy in her life, but I didn’t think of it in terms of murder. I just thought it was an expression that once he’d had it he’d be over it because he was always talking about rape but never murder.

Q235: What happened after you went out of the forest?

A235: He come out of the forest and turned right then drove down the highway towards Cooroy for approximately five minutes. We pulled into a little parking area that had like a small lake. Barrie got out of the car and threw the bedspread with the things [transcript unclear] in it into the lake. He then got back in the car and we proceeded to go home.

Q236: Did he keep the same clothes on?

A236: Yes.

Sunshine Coast schoolgirl Sian Kingi was murdered in 1987 by Barrie Watts, he is currently applying for parole.

Q237: Did you discuss what had happened on the way home?

A237: No because I was very upset. I cried. He just told me not to be so upset about it.

Q238: When did you first discuss it?

A238: The next afternoon when I came back from shopping.

Q239: What was said?

A239: I think he read to me what was in the papers about her being missing. Just as I got home when I pulled up, he said quick come upstairs and I just caught the tail end of a news broadcast on the TV about the girl being missing and he said he was glad I was home and I asked him was he paranoid about being by himself and he said yes. I told him I was afraid and he said he didn’t think there was anything to worry about. As time went by day after day he was more convinced that youse weren’t looking for us and he told me to stop worrying cause he didn’t have any guilt feelings about it and guilt feelings or any worries. I was the only one that felt guilty. I think that’s about it.

Q240:Did he ever show any feelings of sorrow or remorse at all?

A240: No.