Wife killer Colin Arthur Case sentenced to prison for sexually abusing a teen girl

West Australian

3 days ago

A wife killer is back in prison for sexually abusing a teenage girl while tutoring her in mathematics.
Colin Arthur Case, 85, was on parole for the murder of his first wife when he abused the girl during the tutoring sessions at his Port Lincoln home from June 2023 to October 2024.
The octogenarian has now been sentenced to another nine years in prison.
Judge Anne Barnett, in her sentencing remarks, said his offending involved 'a serious breach of trust', referencing an impact statement from the victim's mother.
'She spoke of how you would buy gifts and that you did so to manipulate the victim,' Judge Barnett said.
'She feels guilt for letting you into her daughter's life.'
The victim was in her early teens during the period of offending.
'You say the offending did not begin sexually and that you became close and cared for her which eventually slipped into sexual abuse,' the judge said.
Case shot and killed his first wife, Margaret, in 1992, and he was sentenced to life in prison with a non-parole period of 20 years.
He was released in July 2016 and married his second wife nine months later.
His second wife developed suspicions about Case's offending and used an iPad to catch him out.
'Your offending came to light due to suspicions held by your wife who observed gifts that you had bought for the victim and that you had spent lots of time together,' Judge Barnett said.
'She also noticed that you had started taking Viagra.
'As a result of these suspicions she recorded the audio of an interaction between you and the victim on her iPad where you discussed sexual acts and that there were sounds consistent with the occurrence of sexual acts.
'She provided the police with the iPad and the recording.'
Case was born in Kenya to British parents, who were serving there in the British army, Judge Barnett said.
He immigrated to Australia in 1971 and became a teacher.
He murdered his first wife in public, shooting her with a firearm wrapped in a blanket at short range, as she left her solicitor's office in Adelaide on March 23, 1992.
He was arrested two days later and he pleaded guilty to the murder.
Judge Barnett declined to fix a non-parole period for Case's offending and referred his matter to the South Australian Supreme Court, which she said would be the 'most appropriate forum' for dealing with terms of life imprisonment for murder and the subsequent commission of serious offences while on parole.
'I also take into account in declining to fix a non-parole period, the observations of the Parole Board in their letter to me that more up-to-date material may be of assistance in understanding the motivation for your offending, in turn, informing the length of any non-parole period to be fixed,' she said.