Notorious child rapist Douglas Jackway to be set free

Jackway was a suspect in Daniel Morcombe’s murder after the 13-year-old was abducted from the Sunshine Coast in 2003. Brett Peter Cowen was eventually found guilty of the boy’s murder and sentenced to life in prison in 2014.

In 1991, a 14-year-old Jackway raped a young girl and he also performed sexual acts against a boy in 1995 when he was 18.

While under the influence of alcohol and drugs, Jackway took a boy into mangroves before stripping, assaulting, threatening the boy and performing sexual acts, including anal rape, in 1995.

He was caught in the act by police and was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment and was not released until 2003.

Jackway returned to prison in January 2004 for stealing a vehicle, and was at the same time dealt…