Larry Murphy RAPIST free to roam wherever he may please

Antoinette wrote:

So, there is a photo of what he looks like now? Brilliant!

IRELANDS MOST VILE RAPIST. LARRY MURPHY

INSIDE THE MINDS OF A SEX ATTACKER

He WILL have been a model prisoner in jail. There are no women for him to rape in there.

Things like this sicken me. Still thanks to the failure of the law to be able to keep him inside l'll just hope for the next best punishment, to be tracked down by a few burly men and given a 'warning' to behave himself.

Larry Murphy is planning to live close to the scene of his brutal attack when he is released next month. the suspected serial Killer has attempted to make contact with a family member who lives in Balttinglass, Co Wicklow. terrified locals say they are "Very concerned" over his expected return to the area where he raped a Carlow busnesswoman.. He will be let back into the community despite not having undergone any treatment or rehabilitation while in Jail.
He is espected to stay with the family member after his release next month at a property not far from Murphy's home village which is also near to where he carried out the rape of the businesswoman.... it is also worryingly fitting that his full first day of freedom will be Friday the 13th of August.
Local offocers are entitled to exercise stop and search powers when they encounter Murphy on foot or travelling in a vehicle. But of course unless he is suspected of carrying out a fresh offence they will not be able to arrest him.

"this was taking from Wendesday 7th July Evening Herald"

Chilling rapist to return to his home area


Wednesday July 07 2010

RAPIST Larry Murphy is planning to live close to the scene of his brutal attack when he is released next month.

The Herald can reveal that the suspected serial killer has attempted to make contact with a family member, who lives near Baltinglass, Co Wicklow.


Now terrified locals say they are “very concerned” over his expected return to the area where he raped


He will be let back into the community despite not having undergone any treatment or rehabilitation while in jail.


He is expected to stay with the family member after his release next month, at a property not far from Murphy’s home village.


The location is near where Larry Murphy brutally raped a businesswoman – an attack which led to him being jailed.


The rapist, who is a suspect in the cases of three missing women, has reportedly given an address in southwest Wicklow to gardai which will be his primary place of residence.


The home on the outskirts of Baltinglass, Co Wicklow, has been modified to accommodate him, it is understood.


CONCERNED


Murphy – the prime suspect in the mysterious cases of Deirdre Jacob, Jo Jo Dullard and Annie McCarrick – will be released on August 13 after serving just 10 years for the horrific abduction and rape of a woman in 2000.


Frightened families in Baltinglass say they are growing “very concerned” about where Murphy will live as next month’s release date looms.


One businesswoman said: “I’m very concerned. It’s too close for comfort. The world knows about it at this stage.”


Another local added: “You can imagine how people are feeling. Where he’s going to be living is obviously going to be of interest to people. It’s important that people know. [We’ll have to] wait and find out.”


On February 11, 2000, Larry Murphy subjected a Carlow businesswoman to a shocking and prolonged sexual assault. He approached the woman and said something to her which she believed was “give me the money”.


He punched her, knocking her to the ground, breaking her nose. He then shoved her into her car and took her keys.


He moved her car 25ft to where he had left his Fiat hatchback car, he made her take off her bra, and bound her hands tight using it.


Murphy flung her into his boot and turned his radio on full blast to drown out her screams.


He drove the car to the isolated area of Kilkea in south Kildare, just six miles from where he lived. He pulled her into the car and began to rape her violently. Murphy demanded that she kiss him during the ordeal. He then tied her up once more, gagged her mouth and drove to a separate location at Spinan's Cross in the Glen of Imaal. There he took his terrified captive from the boot.


“Make love to me,” he said before raping her three times and forcing her to have anal and oral sex.


In prison, he has refused to undergo any sex offenders' rehabilitation programmes. He will not be electronically tagged on release but will be monitored around-the-clock. Murphy has been described as a “loner” by locals, and local women in particular will be tense upon his release.


LONER


“I feel the women are pretty scared. He’s a crafty sort of person and he seems bad. He was definitely guilty anyway. He’s awful sly, a bit of a loner, distant, and you get a bad feeling about him,” said one local.


“It’s worrying, obviously everyone is hoping that he’s not going to be living here. Everyone knew for the last few years that he was getting out,” he added.


“I wouldn’t like to be a girl on a lonely country road and he’d come along on a motorbike,” said another concerned local.


A pensioner added: “We’d be worried, [and wondering] are they going to send him back home or away to England or somewhere, but then they can’t because he’s on the sex offenders’ list.”


One retired woman said: “If we had little grandchildren or something living anywhere close to him we would be concerned.”


“I don’t know what the answer is. They have to live somewhere, he’s done his time, but then with people with children you could understand their worry.”


Another added: “People might [protest], but for all the good that’s going to do. I don’t know how they’ll react.”

PJ Browne: Women will be terrified with Murphy on the loose

By PJ Browne


Wednesday July 07 2010

THE impending early release of suspected serial killer and rapist Larry Murphy has generated major public interest.

And so it should. Wherever this individual appears, women will be struck with fear.

It is worryingly fitting that his first full day of freedom will be Friday the 13th of August. I recognise the parameters that the parole board has to work under, but one must ask if change is required to help contain the likes of Murphy.

People are rightly concerned as to how this man will be monitored on his release and his presence on the street will provide a headache for detectives.

One complicating factor is the report that Murphy failed to get treatment for his predictions while in prison. Essentially, he will pose the same danger next month as he did when he committed his last offence, the kidnap and rape of a young woman in the Wicklow Mountains.

Murphy will be placed on the Sex Offenders' Register. He must notify gardai of his address and give notice of his movements.


LEAD

That's a start, but I have no doubt that gardai in any area that Murphy visits or wishes to reside in would take a special interest in his behaviour regardless.

Local detectives will collate his presence and actions so that all information on Murphy will be available to every garda throughout the country, more or less instantly, via the Pulse system.

In this respect the public have an important part to play in tipping off of the gardai to Murphy's whereabouts.

Such local information can give officers a vital lead on an individual like Murphy, particularly since he has a history of attacking in remote areas well known to him.

The superintendent of the area Murphy resides in will brief all his staff that everything Murphy does must be made the subject of a Pulse record, however minor.

The Garda management team will at all times be aware of his movements.

Murphy's profile, modus operandi and recent picture will also be circulated internally to gardai.


PRYING

Local officers are entitled to exercise stop and search powers when they encounter Murphy, on foot or travelling in a vehicle.

But, of course, unless he is suspected of carrying out a fresh offence they will not be able to arrest him.

We recently saw the case of convicted rapist Michael Murray, who went to the High Court to demand the right to a private life -- away from the prying of the press.

Murphy may also demand that his right to privacy be respected, that his location not be known and that the press should not publish pictures and articles about him.

As a convicted rapist his whereabouts are of paramount importance.

As the High Court pointed out to Michael Murray the public's right to know is all important.

And so is the public's right to safety.

Larry Murphy represents a most serious threat to that safety. We can expect a major -- if covert -- garda operation to monitor him from next month.

PJ Browne is a former detective superintendent with over 35 years experience policing serious crime

'The next victim has every chance of being your mom ... or even you'The team handling the Garda's 'cold case' inquiries faces huge obstacles, writes Jim Cusack


Sunday November 04 2007

IT IS hoped that, by next year, the Dail will enact legislation for the creation of a DNA database where samples of suspects are retained for use in future investigations.

The scheme has already been challenged by "human rights" groups, some of whom have cited the "intrusive" and "Big Brother" nature of the massive national DNA database operated by the UK Home Office. By the end of last year the UK database had 3.4 million DNA profiles, or about 5.2 per cent of the population.

The Home Office, however, is sanguine about the criticisms levelled against it. "Any intrusion on personal privacy is proportionate to the benefits that are gained," is its simple response. In 2005-2006 45,000 crimes were matched against records on the database, including 422 homicides and 645 rapes.

They cite one particular case in their arguments on behalf of retaining the DNA profiles of so many people. "In Canterbury in 1988, an 11- year-old and a nine-year-old girl were raped and indecently assaulted. In Derby in 2001, a shoplifter was arrested and a DNA sample taken. His DNA matched the 1998 crime scene samples. The offender pleaded guilty to the 1988 offences and was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment."

Under the existing legislation here, dating from the early 1990s, gardai have to destroy DNA samples after a six-month period. They have to do this even in cases where the suspect is someone they believe to be a killer or rapist likely to strike again.

Minister for Justice Brian Lenihan is due to make the Criminal Justice (Forensic Sampling and Evidence) Bill 2007 his top priority in the new Dail term and have the legislation in place by the middle of next year.

It may have come too late for the families and friends of the 200 or more victims of unsolved murders in Ireland, but may benefit other bereaved families in the future. Despite the cries of alarm from the rights groups, the forthcoming Act will include provision for "a presumption in favour of indefinite retention".

The present state of affairs is a daunting one for the hand-picked team of eight 'cold case' detectives led by Det Superintendent Christy Mangan, now investigating cases going back to 1980. Sources close to the investigation team say it has already encountered instances where there are almost no files or evidence left in cases of unsolved murders.

In the past 25 years there have been major upheavals, including the closing down of old Garda stations and a major programme of new stations, where evidence and files lying around in old evidence cupboards have been lost or thrown out. Files were handed from one team of detectives to another as officers retired or were transferred.

There is no central warehouse where unsolved murder files complete with evidential matter are stored. The coldcase team is spending almost all its time at present simply trying to amass as much evidence as can be traced before beginning renewed investigations.

The same problem has been encountered internationally since the whole notion of cold case investigations was started by the Miami-Dade Police Department in 1984, leading to the solving within a few months of the murder of a two-year-old girl, two years earlier. Other US police departments quickly followed the Miami-Dade example and began setting up their own cold case units, leading to the solving of murders dating back to the 1950s.

The key in almost every case, as has already been the experience here, is in the retention of evidence that could be re-examined under the new DNA technology. The New York Police Department, with thousands of unsolved murders, found it almost impossible, at the outset, to retrieve files and evidence because the division charged with retaining evidence had been understaffed and so overwhelmed with physical evidence that most of it had been lost or thrown out. The NYPD, as a matter of urgency in the late 1980s, began introducing a system for the management and retention of evidence in homicide cases.

The importance of evidence retention is clearly highlighted in the Irish experience. The only cold case success so far in Ireland is that of Phyllis Murphy, the 23-year-old Kildare woman raped and murdered by former soldier, John Crerar, in December 1979. Crerar was caught in 2001 by a team led by then Assistant Commissioner Tony Hickey after the mass DNA screening of potential suspects in the Kildare town area.

The success of the case hinged on the fact that a local garda had taken particular care in preserving all the files and evidence in the case, including samples taken from the body. When the murder happened, DNA sampling had not been heard of. By 2001, analysis of semen taken from the body would conclusively lead to Crerar's conviction and sentence of life imprisonment.

In many of the cases now under review, there is little likelihood that such diligence shown by that garda in Kildare will have been repeated.

The list of cases facing the new cold case unit is a daunting one. A spokeswoman for Advic (Advocates for Victims of Homicide in Ireland), which represents the families of around 100 victims, said yesterday she hoped the new cold case unit would not simply concentrate on high-profile cases which continue to attract public interest.

Among the 'murdered' and 'missing, presumed murdered' cases facing the cold case unit are:

MARIE KILMARTIN

Marie Kilmartin is a 35-year-old single woman who disappeared from Portlaoise in mid-December 1993. Her body was discovered partially hidden in a drain beside a bog road on the Laois-Offaly border six months later. Marie's murder slipped from the public notice within a short time.

However, in a remarkable twist, in 2000 a young adopted girl discovered that she was Marie's natural daughter given up for adoption in 1980. Last December, on the 13th anniversary of the murder, her daughter, Aine, returned to Portlaoise and distributed leaflets asking for assistance in finding her mother's killer.

Aine's website seeking help carries a single photograph of the mother she never met and sums up the plight of the families and friends of unsolved murder victims: "My search for maternal relations was replaced by a search for answers and, most importantly, the search for justice. For every unresolved murder case in Ireland in the last 30 years, as far as we know, there is still at least one murderer out there.

"As awful as it sounds, that murderer has every chance of reoffending and the next victim has every chance of being your mom, a loved one, a friend, or even you."

SANDRA COLLINS

This is among the most distressing cases of all those who disappear and are believed to have been murdered. On December 4, 2000, Sandra Collins simply disappeared from her home in Killala, Co Mayo, having been last seen leaving a chip shop in the town. A few days later, her fleece jacket was found on the pier at Killala.

Her family and friends said the 29-year-old was not unhappy and do not believe she committed suicide. There are suspicions locally that she may have been in a relationship that had soured and that her murder was made to look like a suicide by her jacket being left at the pier.

SOPHIE TOSCAN DU PLANTIER

Possibly one of the most high-profile murders in recent history, the wife of one of France's most prominent cinema figures was bludgeoned to death at the gate of her holiday home above Schull on December 23, 1996. Despite the controversy and theorising that has surrounded the case ever since, it remains unsolved.

PHILIP CAIRNS

Another case that has baffled gardai and left a family in a state of suspended grief since October 1986, when the schoolboy disappeared while on his way to school in Ballyroan, near Tallaght. The 13-year-old left home after lunch on his way back to school but never arrived. His schoolbag appeared in a lane off Anne Devlin Road, Ballyman, later that day. An exhaustive search and investigation failed to find any hard evidence of what happened to Philip.

RAONAID MURRAY

Almost every year gardai issue an appeal for assistance into the murder of the 17-year-old who was stabbed to death in a dark laneway as she made her way home on a foggy night in September 1999.

Again, huge public interest, and the reopening of investigations on a number of occasions, have failed to produce any significant evidence of who murdered her.

Various theories and suspects have arisen and been dismissed. Evidence from a taxi driver -- who said he gave a lift to a young man whose trousers were drenched with blood on the same night -- did lead to one strong suspect, but there was no evidence to charge.

MARY BOYLE

This six-year-old girl's disappearance in March 1977 may be related to the case of the British child serial killer, Robert Black, a van driver whose work took him across Britain and to Northern Ireland and Donegal in the 1970s. Black is serving 10 life sentences for the murder of young girls.

Four years after Mary disappeared from her home near Ballyshannon, nine-year-old Jennifer Cardy disappeared from her home in Co Antrim. Jennifer's body was found a short time later in a nearby pond. She had been strangled, as had Black's victims in England.

BRIAN STACK

The chief officer of Portlaoise Prison was shot twice in the back of the neck as he left a boxing tournament at the National Stadium on the South Circular Road in Dublin in March 1983. He died 18 months later from his injuries. Gardai believe the Provisional IRA carried out the murder but were never able to trace the killers. Mr Stack's family has appealed for the case to be re-examined following a number of claims, some of which gardai say are erroneous.

The cases of young women believed to have been abducted and murdered by a serial rapist and killer in the Dublin and Wicklow Mountains are also to be re-examined.

DEIRDRE JACOB

Deirdre, 18, disappeared while walking to her home on the outskirts of Newbridge on July 28, 1998. There was no trace of her whereabouts and although she, and others, are still officially only "missing persons", gardai firmly believe she was abducted and then murdered.

There is a very strong suspect, Larry Murphy, still in prison serving a 15-year term for the abduction and rape of a young woman from Carlow in 2000.

Murphy, a carpenter, was working in Newbridge the day Deirdre disappeared. He was questioned by Assistant Commissioner Hickey's "Trace" cold case unit but refused to answer questions.

JO JO DULLARD

The last place that Jo Jo, 21, was seen was near a phone box in Moone, Co Kildare where she was hitching a lift home to Callan, Co Kilkenny, in November 1995.

The phone box is near to a field where Larry Murphy carried out the rape of a young woman he abducted from Carlow five years later.

Murphy was caught only because two hunters came across him in a forest above Baltinglass as he was in the process of strangling the young woman. They recognised Murphy, who drove off at speed.

The two men rescued the young woman, who was naked and close to death. She recovered and was able to testify against Murphy.

ANNIE McCARRICK

The case of the American student who disappeared while on a day trip to Johnny Fox's pub in Glencullen in March 1993 attracted a great deal of public attention, but was never solved.

She, too, was in area where Murphy was known to be active at the time, though there is no evidence to link him to her disappearance.

PATRICIA FURLONG

The 21-year-old's body was found in a field in Glencullen after she had been at a festival near Johnny Fox's pub. She had been raped and strangled. Gardai arrested and charged DJ Vinnie Connell, a man with a history of violence toward women, but he was acquitted and died seven years ago still protesting his innocence.

PATRICIA DOHERTY

THE 30-year-old prison officer was on her way to do some last-minute Christmas shopping in Tallaght from her home on the foothills of the Dublin Mountains in 1991 when she disappeared. Her body was found the following summer, partially buried in a bog off Mount Venus Road at Kilakee.

ANTOINETTE SMITH

The 27-year-old single mother is believed to have been abducted in Dublin city centre in July 1987, taken to a lonely mountain bog and murdered not far from where Patricia Doherty's body was found. Examination of Antoinette's remains showed she had been strangled with her bra.

In a remarkable coincidence, gardai discovered the body of another young woman strangled with her bra. Layla Brennan, a 24-year-old heroin addict and street prostitute, had been abducted and murdered by Philip Colgan, a repeat rapist who murdered Layla after being released from prison in 1999. Links between Colgan and some of the Dublin Mountain murders will be examined by the cold case unit.

EVA BRENNAN

The 40-year-old Dublin woman disappeared from near her home in Rathgar in July 1993 and has never been seen since. The simple fact that she disappeared in an area not far from the mountains has continued to raise fears that she, too, was abducted and murdered.

FIONA PENDER

The 26-year-old was seven months pregnant when she disappeared on the evening of August 23, 1996. She was last seen leaving the flat she shared with her boyfriend in Church Street in Tullamore. She had spent the previous day, Sunday, shopping for baby clothes and was in good spirits.

FIONA SINNOTT

From Bridgetown, Co Wexford, 19-year-old Fiona was last seen leaving a pub in Broadway, Wexford, on the night of Monday, February 9, 1998.

CIARA BREEN

The 17-year-old disappeared from her home at Batchelors Walk, Dundalk, in the early hours of Thursday, February 13, 1997. She took no possessions with her.

GRACE LIVINGSTONE

The murder of the middle-aged housewife, tied up on her bed and then killed with a shotgun blast to the head at her home in Malahide, has mystified investigators since December 1992. A partial fingerprint on masking tape used to gag Mrs Livingstone failed to produce a match. Her husband, James, was arrested and later released. He is suing the State for damages.

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Anger: Family have received threats their home will be torched

By Cormac Byrne and Alan O'Keeffe


Tuesday July 13 2010

THE brother of suspected serial killer Larry Murphy has denied reports he will harbour the rapist, admitting he never wants to see him again.

Thomas Murphy has been subjected to threats from locals after there were several reports that brother Larry would stay with him on his release.

Thomas has said that he wants nothing to do with his brother amid reports that the evil sex fiend will move back to Baltinglass on his release.

"He is my brother but I wish he wasn't. There is nothing I can do about that," he said.

"Friends told me that there are rumours he is moving back in with me. When I heard this I was in disbelief.

"I have told them under no circumstances is he moving back in here.

"I'll refuse him if he arrives on my doorstep. He won't get inside the gate."

Thomas believes that the rumours which have abounded in the locality have put him and his young family at risk.

"We have had threats to be burned out of here," he said.

"I was told of these threats from a good friend of mine.

"You're afraid of your life at night. You are terrified you are going to be torched out of your home."

During his decade-long stint in jail Murphy has never sought any type of counselling and his brother admitted that there is no way of ensuring that he won't reoffend.

"We know he did it once and he got no help for it. I wouldn't say that it is not possible that he will reoffend," he said.

"I live in hope that the stories about Larry being linked to the missing women are not true but there is always that fear."

Thomas admitted that he had visited his brother during his stay at Arbour Hill prison but he stopped once he had learned the truth.

"I have gone to see him. I won't deny that," he said.

"But when I did find out the truth about what happened, it stopped.

"He didn't deny it [the rape of a Carlow businesswoman in 2000], but he would not talk about it to me.

"I asked him a few times and all he ever said was 'I flipped'."

Deep concerns about the release of rapist Murphy were being expressed in Co Wicklow amid fears he may decide to live in the local community.

Local people said they were worried he may seek to stay with his brother, who lives in a rural area within a couple of miles of the forest where he was discovered raping and attempting to strangle a young woman 10 years ago.

The Herald has already revealed that the notorious rapist had attempted to make contact with a family member who lives near Baltinglass, Co Wicklow. Local people have since indicated they were worried that he may seek to stay with his brother, Thomas, who lives in the hilly townland of Kyle.

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- Cormac Byrne and Alan O'Keeffe

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Gardai investigate suspect plot close to Murphy's home


Thursday February 18 2010

Detectives are probing whether this open grave could be linked to serial killer suspect Larry Murphy.

The hidden plot was discovered near Humewood Castle, Co Wicklow – just two miles away from the rapist’s home.

Murphy, due to be released from prison in August, is a suspect for the disappearance of some of the six women missing in Leinster.

Gardai investigated him in relation to the disappearance of Jo Jo Dullard, Deirdre Jacob and Annie McCarrick in the 1990s.

Murphy is serving 10 years for the rape and attempted murder of a Carlow businesswoman. Gardai today confirmed they conducted an examination of the open plot last month and removed earth fragments for analysis.

Gardai were tipped off to the site after local hunters found the grave-sized pit while walking in the area.

Missing woman Jo Jo Dullard was last seen in Moone, Co Kildare, just 13 miles from Humewood Castle.

Murphy has also been questioned about the disappearance of Annie McCarrick in Glencullen, Co Wicklow in 1993, and Deirdre Jacob in Newbridge, Co Kildare, in 1998.

While at large, the rapist lived in the village of Boley, just two miles from the dig site at Humewood Castle. Soil samples taken from the scene did not yield any traces of a body, but gardai confirmed that the investigation was not yet concluded.

Hunters made the discovery of the grave-like hole in 2008. Although it was examined then, a full dig did not take place until three weeks ago.

Earth samples were taken at the site, which lies in woodland just outside the grounds of Humewood Castle, two miles outside the village of Kiltegan.

Larry Murphy is one of the State's most notorious criminals and is due to be released in August after serving ten years for the savage rape and attempted murder of a Carlow businesswoman at the Glen of Imaal, just eight miles from Humewood Castle.

He attacked the woman in a vicious, premeditated attack which saw the woman repeatedly raped in a brutal manner.

One of the men that made the Kiltegan discovery told the Herald how the hole looked remarkably like a grave.

"My friend and I were shooting in the wooded area just outside the grounds of Humewood Castle when we discovered this strange hole," he said. "It was dug out like a grave. It was six feet long, two and a half feet wide and three feet deep.

"It looked like it was dug a number of years ago, there was moss growing in it. It is in a pretty open area and can be seen from the road.

"I discovered the grave two years ago and this is the first time it has been investigated. I went to the gardai again recently and thankfully they examined it."

Local man John Timmins described how the search has sparked rumours in the area.

"There has been a lot of talk in the community, people were suspecting Murphy and wondering if this was a viable grave.

"When he's released he could easily be living in this area."

Inspector Gerry Connolly in Baltinglass Garda Station confirmed to the Herald that an investigation was taking place but nothing of any consequence has been found yet.

"We have investigated the scene and we have taken soil samples," he said. "The samples do not suggest any foul play although we haven't concluded the investigation yet."

Larry Murphy has been linked to the disappearances of three other women in the midlands during the 90s. He was known to have frequented or worked in the areas where Jo Jo Dullard, Deirdre Jacob and Annie McCarrick disappeared.

Murphy has refused to cooperate with the investigations into the disappearances.

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irishtimes.com - Last Updated: Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 16:06
Rape crisis centre seeks law reform



One of the State's largest rape counselling services has joined calls for an overhaul of the prison remission system, ahead of the release of a notorious sex offender.

The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre said it was "aware of the anxiety and fear that is being triggered in the community by the impending release of convicted rapist Larry Murphy".

Murphy (45) from Baltinglass, Co Wicklow, is expected to be released from jail on Thursday after serving 10½ years of a 15-year sentence for the brutal rape of a woman in the Wicklow mountains in February 2000.

Fine Gael called at the weekend for a radical overhaul of the prison remission system, which entitles most prisoners to one-quarter remission off their sentences. Prison sources have indicated Murphy has not engaged in misconduct. They have also confirmed he refused treatment offered to all sex offenders.

Today, the centre said it welcomed the ongoing work the Department of Justice was doing in its development of "best practice in the management of sex offenders".

"However the system of automatic remission of 25 per cent of sentences urgently needs reform in general, but more specifically in cases of serious crimes," it said.

"In cases of sex offences, we would call on the Government to legislate for remission to be linked with co-operation and participation in rehabilitation programmes and that high risk repeat sex offenders are not released until it is possible to assess that there is a reduction in the possibility of their reoffending.”

The centre said it was "acutely sympathetic to the possibility of the re-traumatisation of victims of rape and sexual abuse at this time" by the extensive media coverage that the Murphy case had generated.

It urged anyone needing support, whether as a victim, a friend or a family member, to call its national 24-hour helpline 1 800778888.

Rapist Murphy gets passport to flee country
RELEASE: Wife and brother disown sex fiend



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By Cormac Murphy


Saturday August 07 2010

EVIL rapist Larry Murphy has successfully applied for a passport from prison, it emerged today.

Murphy can now leave the country when he is released from Arbour Hill jail next week.

The sadistic criminal -- who kidnapped his victim using a car -- also applied for a driver's licence from his jail cell.

Murphy (45) is due to be freed next Thursday after serving two-thirds of a 15-year sentence for the horrific rape of a Carlow businesswoman.

Gardai probing the disappearance of a number of missing women in Leinster, including Annie McCarrick (26), Jo Jo Dullard (22) and Deirdre Jacob (18), have investigated Murphy.

However, he was never charged in connection with any of the disappearances.

Surveillance

Murphy is to be kept under close garda surveillance when he is freed and if he decides to leave the country he will have to inform the authorities.

The rapist, a former carpenter from Baltinglass, Co Wicklow, never sought counselling and refused offers of rehabilitation while in prison.

His wife Mags, who has not spoken to her husband since he pleaded guilty to the rape, has attempted to rebuild her life while he was in jail.

Garda HQ has appointed one of the country's top detective inspectors to lead a team monitoring Murphy.

The officer has worked on a number of high-profile cases in recent years and will oversee the surveillance operation on Murphy.

The governor of Arbour Hill has notified Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy about the release as required under the Sex Offenders Act 2001

Escape

Under the act, Murphy must give the address he will live in after his release but does not have to sign in at a garda station for seven days after his release.

Reports have suggested he plans to live in the UK to escape media attention.

However, he will have to notify the gardai if he wishes to leave this jurisdiction for a period longer than seven days.

Gardai can then pass on the details to UK police, who can assume the surveillance operation.

On the night of February 11, 2000, Murphy attacked a 28-year-old Carlow businesswoman.

The woman was returning to her car when he attacked her, breaking her nose, pushed her into her car and took her keys.

He drove her to his own car and tied her up and drove to an isolated area where he once attacked his wife's friend.

He raped and beat her before driving her to another remote location where he raped her again.

However, he was forced to flee when disturbed by two hunters.

Last month, Murphy's brother Thomas spoke out publicly to say the rapist would not be welcomed by his family.

Thomas Murphy said he suspected his brother had been involved in the disappearance of the missing women.

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- Cormac Murphy


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Not is it only Ireland that is not safe when this sick bastard gets out, now the rest of the world is in danger too

Men like that should NEVER be released....evil

kitti wrote:Men like that should NEVER be released....evil

No they shouldnt but he will be out in 2 days time. Read in the local paper, he has a drivers licence which he applied for from prison and can apply for a taxi licence and the laws in this country cannot do anything to stop him getting it.

He'll do it again and next time the woman might not be so lucky.

Kenneth McDuff was an American serial killer who was released on parole after serving 20 years of a sentence for murder.