Bandali Michael Debs
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Robberies – To avoid arrest
Number of victims: 4
Date of murders: April 1995 / June 17, 1997 / August 16, 1998
Date of arrest: September 24, 2001
Date of birth: July 18, 1953
Victims profile: Donna Ann Hicks, 34 /Kristy Mary Harty, 18 / Sergeant Gary Silk, 21, and Senior Constable Rodney Miller, 28 (Victoria Police officers)
Method of murder: Shooting
Location: Victoria, Australia
Status: Sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment with no minimum term in February 2003. Sentenced to a third consecutive term of life imprisonment in May 2007. Sentenced to a fourth consecutive term of life imprisonment in December 2011
Bandali Michael Debs (born 18 July 1953) is an Australian murderer, currently serving three consecutive terms of life imprisonment for the murder of two Victoria Police officers in August, 1998, and also the 1997 murder of teenager Kristy Harty. He was also found guilty with the shooting murder of New South Wales prostituteDonna Ann Hicks and was Sentenced to a fourth consecutive term of life imprisonment on Feb 24 2012.
Debs is currently detained at HM Prison Barwon.
Personal life
Debs, from Narre Warren, a south eastern suburb of Melbourne was employed as a tiler. He had fathered five children. The youngest son of Debs, Joseph, was found dead due to a suspected drug overdose at a house in Greensborough in December, 2003.
Silk-Miller police murders
In February, 2003, Debs was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment with no minimum term for the murders of two Victoria Police officers, Sergeant Gary Silk and Senior Constable Rodney Miller at Moorabbin, Victoria on 16 August 1998.
Accomplice, Jason Joseph Roberts, who was 22 at the time of sentencing, was also convicted of the police murders and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment with a minimum term of 35 years.
Murder of Kristy Harty
On 20 June 2005, police charged Debs with the murder of troubled teenager Kristy Mary Harty, who was murdered at Upper Beaconsfield on 17 June 1997.
Harty was soliciting for sex along the Princes Highway when she met with Debs. The pair drove to a secluded bush track in Upper Beaconsfield where the pair had unprotected sex. Harty was later murdered. Her semi-naked body was later found lying face down by bushwalkers. A single gunshot wound was discovered at the rear of her head.
DNA tests revealed semen located on the body of Harty was linked to Debs.
In May, 2007, Debs was convicted of the murder of Harty and sentenced to a third consecutive term of life imprisonment.
In sentencing Debs, Justice Kaye remarked:
Your murder of Ms Harty was entirely senseless, needless and wanton. The evidence discloses beyond any doubt that this was not a case of a sexual encounter in which, in the heat of the moment, feelings or passions may have led to a spontaneous and irrational act of violence. Rather, and quite to the contrary, this was, most clearly, a callous, craven and senseless murder in cold blood of an entirely innocent, defenceless and vulnerable young woman. The evidence leads to the inevitable conclusion that you murdered Kristy Harty for no other reason than for the sheer sake of it.
Murder of Donna Anne Hicks
Donna Anne Hicks was shot dead in April 1995 in western Sydney.
Debs was subsequently linked to the case through DNA analysis. Debs had been entered into a DNA database of criminals. On 30 September 2008, Melbourne detectives interviewed Debs and raided his previous address in Sydney. On 12 December 2011 he was found guilty of Hicks’ murder in the New South Wales Supreme Court
Prison life
Whilst imprisoned, Debs has undertaken psychology, life skills and computer training and is employed as a prison carpet cleaner.
On 30 September 2008, Melbourne detectives interviewed Debs and raided his previous address as part of a murder investigation into the killing of 34-year-old Sydney mother Donna Anne Hicks. Hicks was shot dead in April 1995 in an unsolved murder. Debs has been linked to the case through DNA analysis.
http://aussiecriminals.com.au/high-profile-criminals/bandali-michael-debs/
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Robberies – To avoid arrest
Number of victims: 4
Date of murders: April 1995 / June 17, 1997 / August 16, 1998
Date of arrest: September 24, 2001
Date of birth: July 18, 1953
Victims profile: Donna Ann Hicks, 34 /Kristy Mary Harty, 18 / Sergeant Gary Silk, 21, and Senior Constable Rodney Miller, 28 (Victoria Police officers)
Method of murder: Shooting
Location: Victoria, Australia
Status: Sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment with no minimum term in February 2003. Sentenced to a third consecutive term of life imprisonment in May 2007. Sentenced to a fourth consecutive term of life imprisonment in December 2011
Bandali Michael Debs (born 18 July 1953) is an Australian murderer, currently serving three consecutive terms of life imprisonment for the murder of two Victoria Police officers in August, 1998, and also the 1997 murder of teenager Kristy Harty. He was also found guilty with the shooting murder of New South Wales prostituteDonna Ann Hicks and was Sentenced to a fourth consecutive term of life imprisonment on Feb 24 2012.
Debs is currently detained at HM Prison Barwon.
Personal life
Debs, from Narre Warren, a south eastern suburb of Melbourne was employed as a tiler. He had fathered five children. The youngest son of Debs, Joseph, was found dead due to a suspected drug overdose at a house in Greensborough in December, 2003.
Silk-Miller police murders
In February, 2003, Debs was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment with no minimum term for the murders of two Victoria Police officers, Sergeant Gary Silk and Senior Constable Rodney Miller at Moorabbin, Victoria on 16 August 1998.
Accomplice, Jason Joseph Roberts, who was 22 at the time of sentencing, was also convicted of the police murders and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment with a minimum term of 35 years.
Murder of Kristy Harty
On 20 June 2005, police charged Debs with the murder of troubled teenager Kristy Mary Harty, who was murdered at Upper Beaconsfield on 17 June 1997.
Harty was soliciting for sex along the Princes Highway when she met with Debs. The pair drove to a secluded bush track in Upper Beaconsfield where the pair had unprotected sex. Harty was later murdered. Her semi-naked body was later found lying face down by bushwalkers. A single gunshot wound was discovered at the rear of her head.
DNA tests revealed semen located on the body of Harty was linked to Debs.
In May, 2007, Debs was convicted of the murder of Harty and sentenced to a third consecutive term of life imprisonment.
In sentencing Debs, Justice Kaye remarked:
Your murder of Ms Harty was entirely senseless, needless and wanton. The evidence discloses beyond any doubt that this was not a case of a sexual encounter in which, in the heat of the moment, feelings or passions may have led to a spontaneous and irrational act of violence. Rather, and quite to the contrary, this was, most clearly, a callous, craven and senseless murder in cold blood of an entirely innocent, defenceless and vulnerable young woman. The evidence leads to the inevitable conclusion that you murdered Kristy Harty for no other reason than for the sheer sake of it.
Murder of Donna Anne Hicks
Donna Anne Hicks was shot dead in April 1995 in western Sydney.
Debs was subsequently linked to the case through DNA analysis. Debs had been entered into a DNA database of criminals. On 30 September 2008, Melbourne detectives interviewed Debs and raided his previous address in Sydney. On 12 December 2011 he was found guilty of Hicks’ murder in the New South Wales Supreme Court
Prison life
Whilst imprisoned, Debs has undertaken psychology, life skills and computer training and is employed as a prison carpet cleaner.
On 30 September 2008, Melbourne detectives interviewed Debs and raided his previous address as part of a murder investigation into the killing of 34-year-old Sydney mother Donna Anne Hicks. Hicks was shot dead in April 1995 in an unsolved murder. Debs has been linked to the case through DNA analysis.
http://aussiecriminals.com.au/high-profile-criminals/bandali-michael-debs/
