Kylie’s killer gets life

HE GOT away with murder for 32 years before Victoria Police’s homicide cold case squad charged him last year with the abduction, rape and murder of six-year-old Kylie Maybury.

Gregory Keith Davies, 75, was jailed for life yesterday with a 28-year minimum, meaning he would be 103 years old before being eligible for parole.

He showed no emotion as Justice Lex Lasry described the vile assault and strangulation of Kylie, who was snatched off the street on Melbourne Cup Day in 1984 after buying some sugar from a shop in the Melbourne suburb of Preston.

Her body was found the next day in a gutter only 650m from Davies’ home, where he was living with his mother.

“It is clear to me you have treated her with absolute contempt,” Justice Lasry said.

Davies was initially ruled out as a suspect after he provided police with an alibi, but cold case detectives arrested and charged him last year after he voluntarily provided detectives with a DNA sample. It matched the DNA found on Kylie’s clothes.

Davies spent 12 years in jail from 1970 for a sexually motivated hammer attack on 14-year-old Lucy Stasiewcz, a fact the detectives who spoke to him in 1984 were aware of.

He was charged in 1996 with sexually abusing six young girls who he had regular access to and was later jailed for two and a half years.

Davies pleaded guilty.