John Leslie Coombes (born 14 September 1954) is a convicted serial killer from Victoria, Australia.
His stabbed and mutilated body had been dumped a few kilometres off the coast of Port Phillip Bay.
[3] Coombes strangled Raechel Betts, 27, a childcare worker in August 2009 at the home of co-defendant Nicole Godfrey on Phillip Island.
Coombes changed his plea to guilty during pre-trial arguments at the Supreme Court and was jailed for life with no chance of parole.
Justice Geoffrey Nettle noted the similarity between his three murders, saying "It evinces a frightening predilection for homicide" and that he believed that given the chance he would kill again.