AAP General News (Australia)
12-11-2009
Qld: 'Vampire killer' appeals parole rejection
BRISBANE, Dec 11 AAP - A woman known as Queensland's "vampire killer" has challenged
the Parole Board's decision not to release her from jail.
Tracey Wigginton has been in jail on a life sentence since January 1991 for the 1989
murder of 47-year-old council worker Edward Baldock.
She and three other women lured Baldock into a car at Kangaroo Point and then drove
him to a park at West End where Wigginton stabbed him 27 times and drank his blood.
Wigginton's latest application for parole was refused in July this year, a decision
which her lawyers challenged in the Queensland Supreme Court on Friday.
They have argued the rejection of her application and denial of a transfer back to
the low-security Numinbah prison farm are unlawful.
Her lawyers on Friday told the Brisbane court that Wigginton is in a catch-22 situation
because she is unable to get parole until she is moved back to Numinbah.
But, they said, authorities would not agree to her transfer because of concerns about
her behaviour if she does not get parole.
Justice Glenn Martin has reserved his decision.
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KEYWORD: WIGGINTON
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