A CONFRONTING EMAIL
She said, "I was there"
I always enjoy
and appreciate receiving emails. They
come from all sources; retired prison officers from my era, the occasional ex
prisoner and people who are related in one way or another to the stories I have
written.
Yesterday I
received a very welcome, yet confronting email from a young lady who discussed
with me the murder of her brother and her Nan by Eric Thomas Turner in 1973.
She said in
her email, ‘I was there the night this evil was perpetrated against my brother
John when Turner burst in that night and murdered him and Nan’.
I, like most
people, have experienced untold traumatic situations in my life, but I could
not begin to comprehend what this lady went through as a young girl.
To be present when her Nan and her brother
were slain must have caused her horrific consequences throughout her entire
life. She has asked that her name and
identity remain confidential and said, ‘I could think of nothing worse than 15
minutes of fame’.
The whole tragic
event should never have occurred in the first place. Turner was sentenced to
hang by the neck until dead in 1948 for a double murder.
The sentence was commuted to ‘life’ yet he
was released on license in August 1970.
In 1973, just 25 years after Turner had cheated the hangman, he again
committed another horrific double murder when in fact he should still have been
incarcerated within the New South Wales prison system. He clearly was not suitable for release.
You can read
all about this horrifying story, including how Turner’s life ended, in my
latest eBook, Australia’s Best Prison Stories, available through Amazon
or this webpage.
This I
believe.
Peter Egge
