Judge rejects serial rapist's mitigation arguments

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 19 Oct, 04:01 · Archive

A sentencing judge has rejected arguments that a serial rapist's troubled childhood should reduce his culpability.

Glenn Gary Cameron, known as the 'Night Stalker' or 'Moore Park Rapist', faces sentencing after DNA analysis identified him in Alice Springs, more than 30 years after committing his crimes. Between 1991 and 1993, he lured eight women to secluded locations in Sydney's Moore Park and the inner west, attacking them at knifepoint. During one assault, he told his victim: 'If you don't let me do this, I will kill you'.

In NSW District Court on Monday, Cameron's lawyer presented mitigating factors from his background. She outlined being orphaned at age six, suffering serious childhood abuse, becoming an angry and defiant teenager, abusing substances, and being recently diagnosed with a stress-related mental health disorder.

Judge John Pickering showed firm scepticism towards these arguments. He questioned how a chronic adjustment disorder could meaningfully reduce Cameron's moral culpability for premeditated, violent sexual assaults on eight different women. 'There has to be some meaning as to why I would give any reduction to his moral culpability,' the judge stated. He further dismissed the submission that Cameron's sense of power from the attacks was driven by his upbringing, calling it 'a fairly extreme position'.

How it is being reported

• Judge dismisses serial rapist mitigation argumentsA serial rapist not caught for 30 years can't explain his actions, while his lawyer's attempts to have been met with firm scepticism by a sentencing judge.Perth Now · 19 Oct, 03:40
• Judge dismisses serial rapist mitigation argumentsA serial rapist not caught for 30 years can't explain his actions, while his lawyer's attempts to have been met with firm scepticism by a sentencing judge.The West Australian · 19 Oct, 03:40

In this story: Glenn Gary Cameron · Judge John Pickering · Moore Park · Sydney · Alice Springs · NSW District Court

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