Freed Killer Convicted in Girl’s Slaying

An Australian child killer, released from jail in 1985 after serving 22 years for murder, was given another life sentence Friday after being found guilty of murdering another girl.

Barry Hadlow, 48, was found guilty in Brisbane’s Supreme Court of killing 9-year-old Stacey-Ann Tracy in May, 1990, in the Queensland country town of Roma.

Justice Tom Shepherdson sentenced the unemployed packer to life imprisonment, never to be released.

After the guilty verdict was returned, the court heard that Hadlow had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 1963 for killing a 5-year-old girl in November, 1962, in Townsville, north Queensland.

In a psychiatric report at the time, a doctor had written that Hadlow would commit further sex crimes if he were not kept in detention. But he was paroled in April, 1985.