UK & World News
- 13 February 2012, 13:59
'Silence Of The Lambs' Rapist Due Back In UK
A British man who carried out a horrific sex attack which drew parallels to The SilenceOf The Lambs has been told he will be deported from Australia to the UK.
Leslie Cunliffe posed as a policeman to kidnap a 21-year-old woman, then gagged, blindfolded and bound her, strapped a fake bomb to her body and raped her.
During the ordeal, she was tied to a chair that was bolted to the floor.
Cunliffe had also demanded a ransom of A$1m (£650,000) from her family during the May 1999 attack in Geelong, near Melbourne.
Australian police compared the shed where he imprisoned the woman for seven hours to the "dungeon" from the 1991 film starring Sir Anthony Hopkins.
Cunliffe, who holds a British passport, served 12 years in prison.
He was moved to a detention centre pending the outcome of his appeal against his expulsion, but that has now been refused by Australian Federal Court Justice Julie Dodds-Streeton.
Authorities had already cancelled his visa on "character" grounds under a provision in the country's Immigration Act that allows them to expel people convicted of serious offences.
Cunliffe, who reportedly emigrated from Britain in 1967, is now in his 60s.
He is one of a series of ageing British sex offenders who have been deported back to the UK under Australia's tough immigration policy.
Paedophile Raymond Horne was removed to Britain in March 2008 having served a 12-year prison sentence for 14 sex offences.
He lured two homeless boys, aged 13 and 15, to his flat while volunteering for a charity.
Horne had moved to Queensland from Britain in 1952, but never became an Australian citizen and on his release the authorities revoked his visa.
In July 2005 Robert Excell was deported after spending 37 years in Australian prisons for child sex convictions dating back to 1965, when he raped a seven-year-old boy.
Excell was born in the UK and emigrated when he was 10, but never took citizenship.
Convicted murderer and serial rapist Simon Wilson, who had lived in Australia since he was two, was sent back to Britain in January 2008 after being released on licence from a life sentence for killing an elderly woman with up to 100 punches.
Three months later he attacked and tried to rape a frail 71-year-old woman in Camden, north London.
what do you think?
Roger W. Patrick
We don't want him 'ere either, can't we pay the airline to drop him off somewhere? Like in the middle of the Indian Ocean???? What? , where? who? which? Well I'll be willing to contribute some of me pension fer a week to help pay for it..........
Robert Hare
Wont be long before its standing room only Roger
Robert Hare
The victorians had the right idea in the.first place we don't want him back as mentioned above Indian ocean sounds good
crichey56
wat a disgusting story wonder if, like roger mentions below, there is a petition for people to raise money to get rid of these foul creatures. I would gladly give some of my wage. ps. wasnt even a fan of silence of the lambs lol thought it sucked.
Julie Lamb
What I don't understand is why these pigs have been released at all.
Gordon Wright
Why can this country not have a "tough immigration policy" like Australia??. If this had happened in Britain, Lawyers would queuing up to ensure the rapist got his "human rights" and there would always be some soft hearted judge only too ready to grant them.
Mike McDonough
UK government learn from Australia!!!!
stevie may
He deserves no pity. The same pity he showed his victims -
Brian Thwaites
The UK government will never learn. Britain is already a haven for terrorists plotting the destruction of our western civilisation with the valuable assistance of the so called human rights lawyers. Many of these terrorists from countries with medieval poitico-religious attitudes and regimes have also been proved to be paedophiles grooming our children. To be sure Australia has its problems but at least they know how to deal with them. Lock them up for years then throw them out. But why send them back here? Surely the Bikini Atol or one of the French test sites in the Pacific would be a cheaper option and may provide some useful data on survival in a radiologicaly contaminated environment. Dropping them into the Indian Ocean is good too, lots of sharks!
Brian Thwaites
Interestingly and some may find this amusing, Australia dosen't allow non Australians who commit crimes in Australia to become Australian citizens. Which makes it a bit easier to get rid of them.
Russell Beaumont
Good on you cobbers. But I doubt if it will influence our mealy faced Gov we've got so many imported murderers and terrorists over here we all think its a prerequisite for British citizenship
David Curtis
Isnt it nice to know that one country closely connected to the UK is allowed to run its own affairs, unlike the UK, a sattelite of the eussr.
Keith Harrison
8:57am on 13/2/2012
Anyone who behaves like this at any age, or gets to these ages and has not been reformed, is obviously incapable of reform, and has shown themselves to be unfit to be given the rights that human beings deserve. As such, they should just be put down or destroyed like a rabid dog or a malfunctioning piece of machinery.