Mass murder charge heard

Press, 23 February 1977, Page 3

Mass murder charge heard

NZPA Brisbane A 37-year-old farmer was [remanded m custody alter | he appeared in the Gympiej Magistrate's Court in 1 i Queensland yesterday on; [four charges of murder aris-■, ling out of the deaths of four'., 'young people at Wolvi, near Gympie. 1 Peter William Lamb, of ; Wolvi, was charged with ( killing Brenda Lee Lamb. | Laurelle Gail Lamb, Thomas William Lamb and Toni,, Olivia Ashby, also known as Toni Olivia Lavetti. Lamb was crying ' and, shaking as the charges were!' read out. The police prosecutor. Sergeant Colin Guy said that Lamb had made an admis- 1 sion of the murders to de-[i tectives when he was picked up walking along a road not. far from the farmhouse all Wolvi where the bodies were found. The police say that Lau-i relle Lamb and Brenda Lamb were hit severely around the head and face, and that Thomas Lamb and Toni Ashbv were hit around the i

head and body by a chipping I hoe, a matlock, and a rifle butt. The bodies of Laurelle and ’Brenda Lamb were found in bedrooms inside the farm-! house, and the bodies of the [other two on the ground outside. Sergeant. Guy said that an- ' other person was wanted in [connection with the four! charges, but she could not; be found. Lamb who was remanded; >to March 1, entered no plea. | Invalid robbed An 83-year-old man !confined to bed and attached to an oxygen tank has been' robbed of $390 in cash andmerchandise at his home in’ Denver, Colorado. The police said the victim, who wasj not identified, had told the police that a man had smashed the glass on a door , of his home, crawled, through, and demanded! money. — Denver.