NSW: Daughter says she doesn't care what happens to killer

AAP General News (Australia)
12-07-2007
NSW: Daughter says she doesn't care what happens to killer

SYDNEY, Dec 7 AAP - The daughter of murdered Sydney widow Dorothy Davis has told a
judge she doesn't give a damn what happens to her mother's killer, Bruce Burrell.

In the NSW Supreme Court today, Marie Dawes said she only wanted the judge to make
sure no other family would suffer like hers had.

"To lose her as a result of a senseless, despicable act by a man she called a friend
will haunt us for the rest of our lives," she said.

Ms Dawes was reading her victim impact statement at the sentencing hearing of Burrell,
who is already serving a life term for the murder of another Sydney woman, Kerry Whelan.

"I do not give a damn what happens to Burrell," she told the court today.

In September, a jury found Burrell, 54, guilty of murdering 74-year-old grandmother
Mrs Davis on May 30, 1995.

Crown prosecutor Mark Tedeschi, QC, has told Justice David Kirby that Burrell should
receive another life term for the murder of Mrs Davis.

The hearing is continuing.

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