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Offender Databases Martin Marks

Martin Rapaera Marks

Alias

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Offences

Killed Perth woman Michelle Trench in 2001 by strangulation. She was so badly beaten beforehand that all her teeth had been loosened and most of her organs damaged.
He had previously assaulted the victim seveal times.
He has recently been released and is back in NZ

Victims

Michelle Trench

Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1978

Current Location

Henry Rongomau Bennett Centre Hamilton

Parole/Release Dates

Placed in a secure psychiatric institution after his trial in 2003.
Released and deported to NZ in May 2007

Background
NZ Herald story here and also here
Infonews story here
Western Australia's "shadow" attorney-general, Sue Walker, said she feared Marks was being released to freedom. "Details of Ms Trench's killing were horrific," Ms Walker said. "What kind of system allows a man who choked his partner to death and stomped on her repeatedly to serve only four years?"

This Australian Hansard document here gives us a great deal more insight. It appears that the "insanity" may in fact have been feigned - and that he had previously assaulted the victim seveal times.

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