Murderer Gregory Keith Davies wants a jail discount because he’s a ‘marked man’
MURDERER Gregory Keith Davies has delivered what will likely be his final insult to the family of Kylie Maybury, as he appeared in court today for a pre-sentence hearing.
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KILLER and child rapist Gregory Keith Davies believes he’s earned a prison discount after being doused with boiling water while awaiting sentence over the 1984 murder of Kylie Maybury.
The 75-year old was branded a “piece of s---” by a man in the Supreme Court as the killer was led out of his pre-sentence plea hearing on Monday.
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Kylie had walked to the shops in suburban Preston East to buy sugar for her mother but never returned.
Her killer wasn’t identified until 2016, when a DNA match to semen found on her underpants was made.
Davies had savagely raped the six-year-old and strangled her.
A prisoner caught up with the grub last July, smashing his face in and pouring boiling water all over him, including his groin.
The inmate later told authorities he was glad with what he had done.
“He does not deserve to live,” he said.
Davies’ barrister, David Gibson, said his client would remain a “marked man” for the remainder of his life in jail.
“The reality is, there is nowhere safe for him,” he said.
Mr Gibson argued Davies’ hardship in jail combined with his pleas of guilty to murder and rape ought to earn him a slim chance of freedom.
“The reality of his plea is he dies in prison,” he conceded.
The court heard both the prosecution and defence accepted Davies deserved a life sentence, but with a non-parole period.
Davies showed no emotion as the uncle and sister of Kylie took to the stand to deliver their gut-wrenching victim impact statements.
Nor did he when the statement of Kylie’s mum, Julie, was read aloud by Crown prosecutor Mark Rochford, QC.
She described the memory of her “little princess” dressed in blue velvet and a sash when she won a callisthenics competition just two weeks before her murder.
“There is not a day that I don’t think of her,” she said.
“It’s a pain you can’t describe. A hole in your heart.”
Ms Maybury said the loss of her daughter had destroyed her family and driven her to booze and pills.
But Davies’ conviction will hopefully clear her conscience of the blame she has carried and allow her to visit Kylie’s grave with some satisfaction.
Kylie’s uncle, John Daniels, spoke tearfully of the horrors of not only losing his beloved niece, but the suicides of his father and brother that followed.
“This ripped the heart out of me,” he said.
Kylie’s elder sister, who has since changed her name in an effort to escape the horror associated with it, described a life of misery since the murder.
“It ripped my world apart,” she said.
Davies will be sentenced on December 15.