Convicted killer Thomas Keir’s supervision order extension denied

Convicted killer Thomas Keir exposed himself at his front door, visited a nude beach and watched naked yoga and upskirt videos online, but a court has decided he won’t need further supervision.

Thomas Keir with his first wife Jean who has been missing since 02/88, police charged him with her murder after finding human bones under his Tregear home in Sydney.

A convicted killer whose first wife’s bones were found in his backyard as police investigated the mystery death of his second wife is finally free in the community as the Supreme Court has ruled out any more supervision.

The State of NSW has been denied a fresh extended supervision order against Thomas Andrew Keir, 64, after the court ruled evidence he exposed himself at the front door of his house, visited a nudist beach and watched online naked yoga and upskirt videos was not “risky” conduct.

Keir, who was once dubbed Sydney’s most evil husband, was convicted of killing his first wife Jean Angela Keir, who disappeared in February 1988, although he maintains his innocence and said he may have only slapped her face twice.

He was acquitted of murdering his second wife Rosalina Keir who had been strangled with the cord of a lamp in a bedroom in their Tregear home before the house was her body found partially burnt in 1991.

He had pleaded not guilty and the jury accepted his defence that she was strangled while he was out shopping and their home was set on fire by the killer.

Thomas Keir with his first wife Jean who he was convicted of killing after police found her bones in the backyard of their Tregear home in Sydney.

Seven bones - fingers, knuckles and toes - identified through DNA as those of his first wife were found buried in the soil.

The prosecution theory was that the body had been buried but moved, leaving behind the bones.

Thomas Keir in 1993.

Keir was jailed for 22 years with a 16-year non-parole period.

After his release in October 2019 he was made subject to a two-year extended supervision order, the toughest supervision orders that the state can impose.

The State of NSW applied for a second ESO, arguing that Keir posed an unacceptable risk of committing a serious offence.

Justice Richard Cavanagh acknowledged that Keir had never accepted responsibility for his first wife’s death but said he had returned to his work as an upholsterer and was living “appropriately” in the community.

Thomas Keir on the day he and his second wife Rosalina married in 1989. He was acquitted of her 1991 murder.

The State had argued that he had exhibited “concerning conduct” including being seen standing in the doorway of his unit with his pants down, masturbating toward a woman in the open communal area, searched online for “potentially pornographic material” such as naked yoga and upskirt videos and gave a fake name to a women he met at the nudist beach.

But Justice Cavanagh said they were not indicative that he would again engage in “intimate partner violence”.

“The fact that he was observed to be naked and masturbating on one occasion may be concerning behaviour but the risk in this case is not the risk of sex offending or violence towards a random person,” the judge said.