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Inside the ‘completely lawless’ Australian town where there are NO police and violent sex attacks go unchecked
A SMALL town in the Australian outback has been branded “completely lawless” as its lack of police presence sees violent sex attacks go unchecked.
Shocking assaults are a regular occurrence in the community of Fregon as it is totally off the radar of cops, with the town thrust into the spotlight after a nurse was brutally raped and murdered.
Nurse Gayle Woodford found dead after disappearing from her home in Fregon[/caption]
The town in South Australia has been branded ‘completely lawless’[/caption]
Gayle Woodford, 56, took up a job with Nganampa Health Council in South Australia, and often went to Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands.
The mother-of-two’s body was found in a crude grave three days after she went missing from her home in Fregon in 2016, reports the Daily Mail.
SA Deputy Coroner Anthony Schapel has now handed down a damning report following her death.
He recommends a permanent police presence should be established in the area given the concerning levels of violence.
It takes officers around an hour and a half to head to calls in Fregon, according to a report by ABC.
Mr Schapel said it was hard to determine whether a police presence in the town would have prevented Gayle’s death.
But he said it would act as deterrent for other crimes.
The coroner said: “The evidence of those witnesses who were called and who expressed a view about police presence in the Fregon community having regard to the level of lawlessness within it, would suggest that a permanent police presence would be essential.
“The proposition that a community in which certain of its members need to be protected by cages does not require an immediate police presence within that community would, I think, strike the ordinary man or woman in the street as perverse.”
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