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Breach Of Bond Stupid: Magistrate

Wednesday September 28, 2005
A WOMAN was on a bond and serving periodic detention when she took cannabis into the grounds of the Kirkconnell prison farm, near Lithgow, Newcastle Local Court was told yesterday.

No Tears Shed Over Death Of Gran Killer

Sunday September 11, 2005
THE suicide of one of Australia's worst serial killers has been greeted with mixed emotions by his victim's relatives. John Wayne Glover, 62, hanged himself inside Lithgow jail on Friday while serving life for the murders of six elderly women on Sydney's North Shore in 1989 and 1990. Known as the "Granny Killer", Glover bashed his victims to death but maintained what appeared to be a normal existence as a family man.