Life imprisonment with non-parole period of 13 years
Details
Victims
Sofia Rodriguez-Urrutia Shu
Date
26 June 2006
Location(s)
Canning Vale, Western Australia
Date apprehended
27 June 2006
Dante Wyndham Arthurs (born 8 August 1984) is an Australian murderer, convicted of the murder of eight-year-old Sofia Rodriguez-Urrutia Shu.
On 17 November 2007 Arthurs pleaded guilty to the charges of murder and unlawful detention and was convicted in the Supreme Court of Western Australia; he was sentenced to life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 13 years.[1] As of June 2023[update], Arthurs is imprisoned in Casuarina Prison. Bids by him for parole were dismissed in June 2019 and again in May 2022.[2][3] Arthurs is next due to be considered for parole in May 2025.[3]
Many areas of the Western Australian and Australian community debated the re-introduction of the death penalty due to the emotion evoked by Rodriguez-Urrutia Shu's murder.[4] The last person hanged in Western Australia was Eric Edgar Cooke in 1964 and the death penalty was abolished in that state in 1984.[5]
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^"Home of girl's accused killer vandalised". The Age. Australia. Australian Associated Press. 29 June 2006. Archived from the original on 13 March 2007. Retrieved 29 June 2006.
^ abHampton, Shannon; Harvey, Ben (24 May 2022). "Dante Arthurs: Child killer to remain behind bars after parole board refuses to release him". PerthNow. Archived from the original on 18 October 2022. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
^Van Homrigh, Mitchell (6 November 2021). "Cleo Smith's alleged kidnapper on remand in Casuarina, WA's toughest prison". news.com.au. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
^"Death penalty in Australia". New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties. 14 May 2009. Archived from the original on 29 March 2010. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
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