"Rufus who?" you ask. Well, Rufus Junior Marsh is one of a "select" band of New Zealanders who has killed more than once. Stuff explains:
A career criminal, Marsh was serving a life sentence for killing Justice Department clerk Diane Miller in 1986.
It was his second killing – 12 years earlier, Marsh, then 18, and 16-year-old accomplice Dennis Luke kicked Joseph "Taffy" Williamson to death in Hopper St, Wellington.
The murder of Diane Miller was the subject of an excellent, but chilling article by Rosemary McLeod in North and South many years ago. It was a senseless, brutal murder, and it is to the credit of the Parole Board that despite Marsh having been eligible for parole since 1994, he remained behind bars. There may be some who mourn his passing; we are not of that number. The world is a safer place without him, and his ilk.
UPDATE: Our friend pdm raised the issue of the offender's family petitioning the Parole Board for an offender named Marsh to be kept in prison. We don't know what it is about the name Marsh, but the low-life pdm was referring to was GRESHAM Marsh, sentenced to life imprisonment in 1994 for the murders of John and Josephine Harrison in their own home. Courtesy of the Sensible Sentencing Trust's Offender Database, you can read what Gresham Marsh's sister told the Parole Board, including warnings to authorities BEFORE the murders of the Harrisons.
In our ever-humble opinion, Gresham Marsh should never be released from prison.
6 comments:
I am not sure the Parole Board is the right place to be giving credit to for keeping him in jail.
I think that credit well and truely rests with his sisters (2 I think) who always fronted the Parole Board and pleaded for Marsh to be kept in jail to save other lives.
As Henry Blofeld would say - well done them!!!!
I think that's the "other" Marsh pdm - Gresham Marsh - the guy who killed an old couple in a farmhouse in the Waikato.
Oops I didn't know there were two of them. Thanks for pointing that out.
Still, with all the bad stories of those who get out and create further mayhem, its encouraging to hear one where a complete waste of space like Marsh was kept in until he could no longer hurt anyone else.
Diane Miller's family is overjoyed at Rufus Marsh's death. Finally we, the family, can have some peace and never have to worry about the possibility of him being freed and do what he did again.
We miss her dearly.
Anon - our thoughts and prayers are with you and what will be both a time of celebration and of sadness - kia kaha; arohanui.
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