The Honourable James Roland Tomson Wood AO, KC (born 1941) is the chairman of Law Reform Commission of New South Wales, the chairman of the New South Wales Sentencing Council, the Inspector of the Police Integrity Commission and a former judge in Australia.
In this case a 14 year old female victim was gang raped, mutilated, tortured and her body discarded on a beach in New South Wales.
Woods was widely criticized for his judgement as he shifted the blame of the rape and murder partly on the underaged victim.
The inquiry reported on what changes were required within the child protection system to improve the safety of children and families in NSW.
Wood is also Patron of Pathfinders, an Armidale-based not for profit organisation that supports vulnerable and disadvantaged children and communities.