Allan Baker and Kevin Crump are a notorious Australian duo of rapists and double murderers who were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1974.
Allan Baker and Kevin Crump were convicted criminals who met in prison while serving sentences for such offences as breaking and entering and larceny.
Their new life began on 3 November 1973[1] when, while driving a stolen vehicle, Baker used a .308 rifle to murder Ian James Lamb, 43.
The men drove via back roads towards Queensland, stopping at hotels and garages along the way and buying beer and petrol with the $30 they had stolen from the Morse homestead.
They raped and tortured her repeatedly before Crump shot her between the eyes in an execution style killing on the 8th of November 1973 using a .222 rifle.
[2] On 13 November, ten days after Lamb's murder, Baker and Crump headed towards the Hunter Region, intending to commit a burglary.
[2] Details of the torture Morse endured at the hands of Baker and Crump were suppressed during the trial as the information was deemed too graphic and disturbing for the public.
If, in the future, some application is made that you be released on the grounds of clemency or mercy, then, I would venture to suggest to those who are entrusted with the task that the measure of your entitlement should be on the grounds of clemency or mercy you extended to this woman [Morse] when she begged for her life"[7]In 1997, Crump successfully applied to the Supreme Court of NSW to convert his life sentence into a minimum term and an additional term.
[8][9] In response to this determination, the Parliament of New South Wales passed legislation that was intended to ensure that ten named individuals remained incarcerated for the rest of their lives.
[10] The legislation required the Parole Board to give substantial weight to the recommendations, observations and comments made by the original sentencing court.
In 2001, the Parliament of NSW passed further legislation that was intended to ensure that Baker, Crump and other never-to-be-released prisoners could only ever be released on their deathbeds or if they were so incapacitated that they would pose a threat to nobody.