John David Hannaford, commonly known as David Hannaford, was 32 years of age and employed as a cleaner in 1972. He lived with his wife and her 15 month old daughter Victoria Catherine Somers from a previous marriage, in Lawson Street Redfern, an inner city suburb of Sydney NSW.From all accounts Hannaford had been drinking heavily on 7th December 1972 and what happened next is beyond belief. Hannaford in a rage of natural rejection from little 15 month old Victoria, began the worst case of child abuse from a step father and part guardian that I have ever heard.
Extracts from the police record of interview tended to the court, Hannaford said, “I wish I was a mercenary. There is always the smell of dust and blood which I like and I also like to see children, old women and old men being killed”. He continued on, “I enjoy being a sadist and that when things were not in their correct place I fly into an uncontrollable rage”.
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