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Case ID: 12308
Classification: Bestiality
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Animals sexually assaulted
Blenheim, MB (NZ)

Incident Date: Wednesday, Aug 31, 1994

Disposition: Convicted

Defendant/Suspect: Stewart Murray Wilson

Case Updates: 3 update(s) available

The man dubbed the Beast of Blenheim is set to be freed in December next year, seven years before his sentence ends, unless the head of Corrections applies for a special exemption.

Stewart Murray Wilson is serving a 21-year sentence for multiple counts of drugging and raping women, assault and bestiality.

Despite the Parole Board saying Wilson was highly likely to reoffend and rejecting his parole, he has a release date of December 2008.

The situation has arisen because those sentenced before 2002 are required to be released two-thirds of the way through their sentence.

They can only be kept in custody if the chief executive of the Department of Corrections makes a special appeal to the courts to have his detention extended.

The board found there had been no change since Wilson's last hearing in September 2006.

"He remains at very high risk of reoffending, and in those circumstances the board can directly reach the conclusion that he is not suitable for release on parole," the board said.

Under section 107 of the 2002 Parole Act the Corrections chief executive could apply for Wilson to serve out his time if it was felt he would "commit a specified offence between the date of release and the applicable release date".

The two-thirds rule has since been changed. In a letter asking for his parole hearing to be cancelled, Wilson wrote: "I am of no threat to anyone, and should the board accept I have served 13 years now, which is more time than those convicted of murder. Where is the justice in that?"

In 1996, the court found that between 1971 and 1994 Wilson raped six women, raped a girl under 14, committed bestiality, assaulted two females, and indecently assaulted two children and four women.


Case Updates

A sex offender dubbed the "Beast of Blenheim" has been denied parole for a second time but he will be released from prison in September 2012.

Stewart Murray Wilson was convicted in 1996 and sentenced to 21 years' jail for sexual offenses against 16 women and girls over 23 years. The charges included rape, stupefying, ill-treatment of children, indecent assault and bestiality.

At a hearing on November 23, the Parole Board said it was not appropriate to release Wilson, who "continues to be an untreated sex offender and has not worked towards a release proposal".

"The board reaches the clear view that the matter is not one which persuades it that it can resolve in favor of Mr Wilson," said Judge Bernard Kendall.
Source: nzherald.co.nz - Dec 5, 2010
Update posted on Dec 4, 2010 - 1:01PM 
A man known as the "Beast of Blenheim" has had his appeal to be released from prison rejected.

Stewart Murray Wilson, now 62, was jailed for 21 years in 1996 for rape, attempted rape, indecent assault, stupefying, bestiality and wilful ill-treatment of a child.

Representing himself via a video link from Christchurch he argued his case at the Court of Appeal in Wellington last week.

Wilson claimed he was being held unlawfully as, when time spent in remand was included, he had served two-thirds of his sentence and was due for release in December 2008.

However, the Corrections Department filed an application under the Parole Act for Wilson to remain in custody.

Wilson claimed the application was made too late as he should have been eligible for release in 2006. However, the court found he had erred in calculating his sentence as he mistakenly believed some of his offences fell outside the scope of the Act.

A psychiatric report drafted before Wilson's release application said he had denied his offending, had refused treatment while in prison and had made contradictory statements.

The Parole Board deemed Wilson at risk of re-offending and agreed to keep him locked up.

In a decision released today the court said Wilson had misunderstood his position and, "there is a crucial difference between parole eligibility and final release".

As Corrections had applied to extend his imprisonment past two-thirds of his sentence Wilson could potentially be kept behind bars until three months before his sentence expired in December 2015.

The Parole Board must review his sentence every six months with the next hearing set for June.
Source: Otago Daily Times - Feb 5, 2009
Update posted on Feb 4, 2009 - 7:47PM 
The man known as 'The Beast of Blenheim' will stay in prison for at least another four years because he is too dangerous to be released before then, the Parole Board has decided.

The decision will be reviewed every six months, as required by law.

The board decided to keep Stewart Murray Wilson, now 62, behind bars beyond his release date of December 2 this year.

Wilson was convicted and sentenced to 21 years in prison in 1996 for rape, attempted rape, indecent assault, stupefying, bestiality and wilful ill treatment of a child.

His applicable release date is September 1, 2012 and his sentence ends on December 2, 2015 when he must be released.

Because he was sentenced prior to 2002, a law change required he be released after serving two-thirds of his sentence. That would have meant he would have been released earlier this month.

However, the Department of Corrections applied to the Parole Board to keep him beyond that.

The Parole Board, in its reasons behind the decision released today, said that he would likely reoffend before his release date.

Wilson refused a formal examination by a psychologist, who had to assess him based on file information.

The psychologist analysed Wilson's likelihood of criminal and sexual recidivism and psychopathic tendencies.

Wilson scored highly in a sexual recidivism test and those with similar scores were found to have a 46 percent likelihood of being reconvicted of a further sexual offence within five years.

Wilson denied his offending and refused to take any treatment in prison

The board said Wilson made contradictory statements about counselling and admitting his guilt.

"Mr Wilson has done nothing to ameliorate his high risk. He continues to deny his sexual offending and refuses to engage in any form of offence related treatment."

The board took into account the sentencing judge saying Wilson's victims were often vulnerable.

"Once a relationship was established they were subjected to cruel and degrading treatment. They were subject to assaults, indecencies and often raped."

Wilson took control of their lives to an extraordinary degree, the judge had said.

The board said Wilson had no confirmed accommodation and it was clear Wilson could not live with the woman who was named as a support person.

"His named support person is said to be serving a community-based sentence and have a history of mental disability."
Source: Stuff.Co.Nz - Dec 29, 2008
Update posted on Dec 28, 2008 - 9:31PM 

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