After two Victorian Supreme Court jury trials and two Court of Appeal hearings, convicted serial killer Peter Norris Dupas on Dec. 14 lost an appeal against his second conviction for the murder of Mersina Halvagis.
Standing outside the Supreme Court, Bill Halvagis said this Christmas would be a special one, as what he called the ‘‘thing’’ who murdered his sister Mersina had lost what could be his final battle to wriggle free of responsibility for the brutal killing.
When asked if there was anything he would like to say to former lawyer-turned-author Andrew Fraser, who gave evidence about a jailhouse pantomime Dupas performed while they were in prison together that helped convict Dupas, Bill Halvagis said: “He did his part.”
Fraser, along with several witnesses who saw Dupas at the cemetery on the day of the murder are all in line for rewards offered by the state government. Dupas, 59, was first convicted in 2007 the killing of Mersina Halvagis, 25, as she tended her grandmother’s grave at Fawkner Cemetery on Nov. 1 1997, but was granted a retrial on appeal.
Dupas is serving three life sentences without parole for the stabbing murders of Nicole Patterson, Margaret Maher and Halvagis and is believed responsible for several other unsolved murders.
(Source: The Age)
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