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Crime by Kay Dibben
Premium Content A murderer, 74, who has spent 45 years in jail for the 1975 killing of an elderly Toowoomba shopkeeper, has lost another chance for release on parole, after being knocked back 21 times. Mervyn James Rielly strangled Pearl Muriel Tilbury, 81, by tying a cord around her neck on November 29, 1975, and was sentenced to life imprisonment on March 30, 1976. Ms Tilbury was found with fractured ribs, bruising to her face and body and cut hands and her underwear had been removed. There was a suggestion that her genitals may have been interfered with, but there was no forensic evidence confirming it and he was not charged with a sexual offence.