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Killer in court

27/04/2008

POLICE killer Bandali Debs will not go to trial over the shooting of Cranbourne teenager Kristy Harty almost nine years ago.
The 52-year-old appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Monday and Tuesday charged with the 1997 murder of Ms Harty. Her body was found dumped near a bush track at Upper Beaconsfield just nine days after her 18th birthday.
She died from a gunshot wound to the head.
Debs was linked to Harty’s murder in July last year by DNA found on her skirt. He was also seen pulling over near where the teenager was hitchhiking on the Princes Highway in Eumemmerring the day before her body was discovered.
However, Magistrate Jane Patrick said there was not enough evidence for Debs to go to trial.Debs is serving a life sentence for the murders of Sergeant Gary Silk and Senior Constable Rodney Miller in Moorabbin in 1998.

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