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Jonathan Bakewell, a 64-year-old convicted rapist and murderer, could soon be set free after being granted ...

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The enraged sister of a woman who was raped and then murdered is calling for serious convicted offenders to be jailed until the day they die in prison. Anne-Marie Culleton was just 20 when Jonathan Bakewell, then aged 26, strangled her to death in her bed in a Darwin flat back in 1988. He broke into her apartment where she was asleep before violently raping and attacking her.  Bakewell then callously stuffed Anne-Maree's body face-down in the shower, with the water scalding hot in a bid to remove possible evidence. Eileen Culleton (pictured) wants to see serious convicted offenders jailed...

Sister of murder victim Anne-Marie Culleton wants tougher laws for rapists who kill © Provided by ABC NEWS Eileen Culleton with a photo of her sister Anne-Marie. (Supplied: Culleton family) The sister of a woman who was raped and murdered in her own bed by a "sadistic" intruder three decades ago is calling for the creation of stronger laws to prevent sexually-motivated killers from ever being released from jail. Jonathan Peter Bakewell, who was released in 2016, is currently facing allegations of another parole breach, 33 years after he murdered Anne-Marie Culleton in suburban Darwin. ...

"Yet he had the power to set the agenda. "And he had the mandate to do that because Australia is a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the 2018 committee report called for national law reform to address this national crisis of violence against women. Eileen Culleton at the March 4 Justice event in Mullumbimby on Monday, March 15, 2021. Picture: Liana Boss "Women have had enough of the federal government's dismissive attitude to sexual assault crimes. "So now I'm calling on the Prime Minister Scott Morrison to ste...