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Darryl Beamish (born 1941) is a Western Australian man who was wrongfully convicted of wilful murder in 1961 and sentenced to death by hanging. The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and he was paroled in 1977. After six appeals, his conviction was finally overturned in 2005.
Darryl Beamish, now 63, was just 18 when socialite and chocolate heiress Jillian Brewer, 22, was slain in her Cottesloe flat by an intruder, who brutalised her naked body with a tomahawk and a pair of dressmaking scissors.
18. Dez. 2017 · Darryl Beamish was a profoundly deaf teenager when he was charged with the 1959 axe murder of glamorous young Perth socialite Jillian Brewer. The Beamish case would take fifty years to resolve, and remains as a landmark case of the miscarriage of justice.
- Bret Christian
Summary of Case: "Darryl Beamish was wrongly convicted in 1961 of the 1959 axe murder of wealthy 22 year-old socialite Jillian Brewer in Perth, Western Australia. Beamish, a deaf mute who was 18 at the time of the crime, was sentenced to death, that was later commuted to life in prison.
In 2011, Darryl Beamish received an ex-gratia payment of $425,000 from the Western Australian government for his wrongful imprisonment. The Western Australian Court of Criminal Appeal had finally accepted that Cooke’s gallows confession of the murders of Anderson and Brewer was genuine.
Overview. Fingerprint. Abstract. Darryl Beamish was a profoundly deaf teenager when he was charged with the 1959 axe murder of glamorous 22-year-old socialite Jillian Brewer.
1. Apr. 2005 · Darryl Beamish was wrongfully convicted of killing Jillian Brewer in Perth in 1959, despite a confession by Eric Edgar Cooke. He spent 15 years in jail and six appeals before the Court of Criminal Appeal overturned his conviction in 2005.
