WA: Compo payout over alleged Birnie rape to be appealed

AAP General News (Australia)
08-11-2004
WA: Compo payout over alleged Birnie rape to be appealed

Western Australia's Justice Department is appealing a decision to award $70,000 in
compensation to a man claiming he was raped in prison by serial killer DAVID BIRNIE.

The man, a 23-year-old known only as PETER, was last month awarded $72,960 in criminal
injuries compensation.

He'd claimed BIRNIE and convicted paedophile ADRIAN BARRETT sexually assaulted him
hours after he arrived at Casuarina prison south of Perth in 1999.

The Justice Department says it intends to challenge the payout in the District Court.

BIRNIE was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of murdering, raping and
torturing four young women in 1986 with his partner CATHERINE.

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KEYWORD: BIRNIE (PERTH)

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