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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Nino Bucci Justice and courts reporter

Double murderer fails in bid to overturn Queensland’s no body, no parole laws

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Lawyers for Rodney Cherry argued that his case was similar to a hypothetical used the case of Craig Minogue, the Russell Street bomber. Photograph: Dave Hunt/AAP

A double murderer has failed in a high court bid to overturn Queensland’s “no body, no parole” laws, in a case which also involved almost every other state and territory government.

Rodney Michael Cherry, 65, was found guilty in 2002 of killing his 35-year-old wife, Annette Cherry, and 18-year-old stepdaughter, Kira Guise, at Roma in central Queensland and sentenced to life in prison.

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