DECISION IN VICTORIA
Death Sentence Commuted
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) MELBOURNE, May 30. Keith Ryrie, aged 25, convicted in Melbourne last year of the murder of Rhonda Margaret Irwin, aged five, will not be hanged.
The Victorian Executive Council yesterday commuted the sentence of death on Ryrie, a driver, to imprisonment for 50 years with a minimum of 40 years before being eligible for parole. He will bo 65 before he can be released from prison. The council commuted the sentence at a special 20-min-ute meeting. No reasons were given for the decision to commute the death sentence.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31383, 31 May 1967, Page 15
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