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Offender Database Phillip MacAuley

Phillip Andrew MacAuley

Alias

Phillip Levi MacAuley (this was his original name until he changed it by deed poll)

Offences

Raped an elderly woman in Redwood, then raped and killed Mrs Doreen Kemp, (aged 77), of Rangiora, who apparently died by asphyxiation.

Victims

Doreen Kemp

Offender Affiliations

none

Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born December 1965

Current Location

Paparua prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to a 10 year life sentence in April 1995.
Parole refused March 2009
Has next hearing February 2010

Background
Despite repeatedly having his parole rejected he has already been given temporary release periods.
This Listener article has a brief summary of this case
August 1994: Widow Doreen Kemp, 76, was murdered and her body sexually interfered with by door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman Phillip Levi Macauley, 29. Earlier the same day, Macauley twice raped another woman, 65, in the suburb of Redcliffs. He had a history of sexual deviance and psychiatric illness going back to when he was 11.

From NZ Herald story 7th April 1995
“A jury in the High Court at Christchurch found a former door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman guilty of the murder of an elderly Rangiora woman and of indecently interfering with her body. Phillip Levi Macauley had pleaded not guilty to murdering Doreen Louisa Kemp, aged 76, and not guilty to indecently interfering with her dead body on August 18 last year. The trail was before Justice Williamson, who remanded Macauley until Wednesday for sentence on the two counts on a charge of sexual violation by rape against an elderly Redcliffes woman that occurred hours before the murder of Mrs Kemp. Macauley pleaded guilty to the Redcliffes charge before the main trail began, but details of the short hearing were suppressed until after the trial.”

From Sunday Star Times article 5th October 1997
"Phillip Levi Macaulay (29), a vacuum-cleaner salesman, rapes an elderly customer in Christchurch then travels on the same day to Rangiora where he kills another customer, Doreen Kemp (76) and indecently interferes with her body. He is found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. He had a history of sexual deviance and psychiatric illness."

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