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How did Childs suspect know?

By Lisa Davies

December 22, 2006 12:00
Article from: The Daily Telegraph


THE prime suspect in Sydney woman Rachelle Childs' murder was yesterday asked to explain how he knew the young woman's fingers were severed at the time of her death.

Ms Childs' former boss Kevin Correll had allegedly told three witnesses that her hand or fingers were removed in the 2001 killing, an inquest at Glebe Coroner's Court was told.

But it was only after the state coroner recently ordered her body be exhumed that forensic tests confirmed some of Ms Childs' fingers were no longer attached.

A series of propositions were yesterday put to Mr Correll, who exercised his right to refuse to answer the questions on the grounds he may incrimi- nate himself.

The court was told that only six people – including Mr Correll – had told police they had heard Ms Childs' fingers were removed.

Three of those had nominated the used car dealer as the source of the information, while two others have yet to be questioned.

A witness known as KP15 confirmed that Mr Correll told him that detail.

"He said that she was dealing drugs for the bikies and that was their way of handling a person that stole from them," KP15 told the court.

A Rebels leader in Bargo, where Ms Childs lived, has been ruled out as a suspect.

Ms Childs disappeared after leaving the Camden Holden car dealership where she worked with Mr Correll on June 7, 2001.

Her body was found alight in the early hours of the following day in national park near Nowra on the South Coast.

Mr Correll returned to the witness box yesterday and was told of the forensic development.

"Is there anything you wish to say to this court about the correlation between the fact that you have apparently been speaking to people about the cutting off of the hand or fingers (of Ms Childs) and the possibility that there has been some severance of those parts of her body?" Mr Singleton said.

"No," Mr Correll answered.

Mr Singleton told the wit- ness forensic tests had yet to be completed.

Earlier, the court heard Mr Correll had changed his name from Kevin Cornwall after being accused of a violent sexual assault in 1983. He was acquitted of that charge.

Mr Correll's lawyer Matthew Johnston described the questioning as "trench warfare" and said while his client may refuse to answer questions, that in no way implied any guilt.

The inquest into the death will resume next year.

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