The brother of one of Australia’s worst killers committed dozens of child sexual abuse offences against 11 victims over 36 years.
The brother of one of Australia’s worst killers has been jailed for 18 years after admitting to decades of child sexual abuse.
Roughan’s sister Katherine Knight was the first Australian woman sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of her partner John Price, whom she stabbed to death and skinned at their Aberdeen home in the Hunter region in 2000. As the court heard Roughan was eligible for a 20 per cent discount on sentence following his guilty pleas, a man in the public gallery yelled out: “You’re a f---ing dead man, I’m going to have you killed” before storming out.Judge Timothy Gartelmann said the offender met his victims through youth centres, including a PCYC, where he helped train boys in boxing as a teenager, became a youth worker and set up his own centre as a director.
In a lawfully recorded conversation in November 2021, he “made admissions” to sexually assaulting the victim and “said he knew it was wrong, but did not think it was as the victim allowed him to do it”. The judge said another one of Roughan’s victims suffered a serious injury as a teenager and was visited in hospital by the offender, but the sexual acts continued after the victim arrived home.Reading a victim impact statement in court last month, one survivor said the abuse endured when he was a child had invaded his life “like a cancer”, and his mother remembered him turning from a “perfectly normal child … to a young man filled with hate and anger”.
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