Bega killer Leslie Camilleri has pleaded guilty to the murder of a teenager who disappeared 20 years ago.
BEGA schoolgirls killer Leslie Alfred Camilleri pleaded guilty yesterday to the murder of Prue Bird, 13, who vanished without trace more than 20 years ago.
Flanked by guards, Camilleri was stone-faced in the Supreme Court dock as he pleaded guilty to the 1992 murder of the Glenroy schoolgirl.
Prue's mother, Jenny Bird, shook and wept as Camilleri was led past her.
Camilleri is serving a life sentence for raping and murdering two Bega schoolgirls in 1997 - crimes he committed with an accomplice.
It had long been suspected that Prue was killed to punish her grandmother's partner, who had made statements to police against the men responsible for the 1986 bombing of the Russell St police station.
But yesterday, prosecutor Michele Williams, SC, said the Crown no longer alleged that Prue's murder had been "payback' connected to the bombing.
Prue was last seen alive in the kitchen of her mother's house in Justin Ave, Glenroy, on February 2, 1992. Police believe she was killed some time between that day and February 9.
Leslie Camilleri enters court today before pleading guilty to the murder of Melbourne teen Prue Bird more than 20 years ago. Picture: Norm Oorloff
In February this year, police conducted a three-day search for her remains near Flat Rock Creek, north of Cann River in far East Gippsland. The search was called off after nothing was found.
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The site is near where the bodies of schoolgirls Lauren Barry and Nichole Collins were found in 1997.
Prue Bird was just 13 when she disappeared. Picture: Trevor Pinder
Camilleri and his accomplice, Lindsay Beckett, kidnapped the girls, repeatedly raped them, and drove them across the NSW border into Victoria, where they killed them.
Camilleri is one of the few Victorian prisoners serving a life term without parole.
In February this year, the homicide squad's Detective Sergeant Brent Fisher told Melbourne Magistrates' Court the motive for Prue's murder revolved around payback over the Russell St bombing, about which Prue's grandmother, Julie, and her partner, Paul Kurt Hetzel, gave statements to police.
Whether Camilleri acted alone in Prue's murder remains in dispute. A contested plea hearing is scheduled for February 4.
Camilleri would dispute the prosecution case that he acted with another person in the killing, defence counsel Jacqui Kennedy told the court yesterday.
Camilleri rose but did not bow before Justice Elizabeth Curtain at the arraignment.
Prue Bird's mother Jenny Bird leaves the Supreme Court after notorious killer Leslie Camilleri pleaded guilty Prue's murder more than 20 years earlier. Picture: Norm Oorloff
Asked to verify his name, he responded simply and emotionlessly.
As Camilleri, 43, pleaded guilty to murdering Prue, Mrs Bird, sitting several metres from the killer and staring at him, began to cry.
She continued to weep as Camilleri was led out without sparing her a glance.
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