Killer John Walsh gets another life sentence for sandwich press murder
A NSW triple-murderer already in jail until he dies has received another life sentence for “the cold-blooded calculated” murder of a fellow prisoner with a sandwich press.
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A NSW triple-murderer already in jail until he dies has received another life sentence for “the cold-blooded calculated” murder of a fellow prisoner with a sandwich press.
John Walsh, 79, pleaded guilty to murdering Frank Townsend in their Long Bay prison cell in the aged care unit for elderly and frail offenders in early January 2017.
In the NSW Supreme Court today, Justice Lucy McCallum — who previously sentenced him for murdering his wife and two grandchildren in 2008 — imposed another life sentence noting his lack of remorse and the danger he poses to others.
She noted his lack of remorse and the danger he still poses to others, despite being an old man.
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“He is incapable of remorse,” she said.
“He describes acts of murder as if he were explaining how to change a tyre.”
In his police interview after he killed Townsend, Walsh described stepping forward with both hands, carrying the sandwich press in a pillow case, and “choom, onto his face”.
“I don’t work in anger, I work in tactical ... cold rage,” he said.
The close knit country town of Cowra was rocked after Walsh’s bloody rampage in which he murdered his wife Jean and his grandson, 7, and granddaughter, 5 in June, 2008.
Walsh stabbed his wife and bludgeoned her and his seven-year-old grandson with a hammer.
He drowned his five-year-old granddaughter in a bath at the Cowra home and also drowned the family dog.
Walsh’s daughter Shelly — a serving NSW police officer at the time — made the horrific discovery of her murdered family when she returned home to her parent’s Cowra home.
She had left her parents to care for her two children while she working an overnight shift at Parkes police station.
At the time of the discovery, Walsh tried to attack his daughter with an axe and said, “I am doing this because I love you. When I am done with you lot I am going to Newcastle to kill your ex-husband. We are all better off this way. This is the way it has to be.”