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Why was the dangerous repeat offender who murdered Gayle Woodford able to roam free?
When a repeat violent sexual offender murdered remote area nurse Gayle Woodford, he was free to roam the community unsupervised and had been released from prison without rehabilitation, despite being assessed as high risk by authorities who held “grave concerns” for public safety upon his release.
The many systemic failures that enabled Dudley Davey to continue his path of violent offending have been laid bare in a scathing 103-page Coroners Court findings delivered on Thursday.
Among the most striking is that no application for Davey’s indefinite detention was ever made, despite Davey conceivably fitting the legal criteria as a person who could have been declared unwilling or unable to control his sexual urges.
Davey’s last jail sentence…
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