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Paul Geoffrey Errington, age 26, was murdered on September 3, 1996. A belt was looped around his neck, and he was garrotted until he died. His body was then transported in the trunk of a car into the desert, and buried face down in a shallow grave. His body was found by Police and exhumed a couple of days later.

His killer went to Trial on the charge of Murder, but was found "Not Guilty", largely because Paul had an extensive (petty) criminal history, and being dead was unable to contest the accused's story. The jury chose to believe what was a fairly flimsy story as concocted by the accused. Such is life... and death..

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• Murder
• Errington
• garotted

[GiadBalGia]

Terrible! Why and where it happened?

[DrHoldowicz]

The murder was in a town called Whyalla in South Australia. It seems the killer had an obsession with Paul's sister, and saw Paul as getting in the way.

The prosecution was pathetic. Paul had a long history of petty crime, and the defence played on that to justify the killer's argument of self defence.

The fact that the killer was a lot bigger than Paul, was uninjured in the "fight", that Paul was very medicated and groggy, and that he choked him with a belt then hid the body didn't count.

[MissyLanaJana]

Poor Paulie. What a waste.