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  • Killer to get early release

    04/09/2004 11:06:06 PM PDT · by BlackVeil · 14 replies · 1,219+ views
    Illawarra Mercury ^ | 10 April 2004 | By ERIN O'DWYER
    ELEVEN years ago Austin Allan Hughes and his partner bashed her six-year-old son to death with a hammer in an horrific attack that involved more than 100 blows. Now both murderers will be released from jail early after a judge cut Hughes' sentence yesterday to match the mother's. The pair will be eligible for release in 2007 - the same year the son would have been 20. Hughes, then 20 and living in the Shoalhaven, pleaded guilty to murdering his stepson in August 1993. The boy's mother, then 25, also pleaded guilty despite both partners initially lying to police about...