Leigh Robinson

Victims: 2 murders in Victoria, Australia, 1968 and 2008, by conviction. A 17-year-old former girlfriend (1968) and Tracey Greenbury, Frankston (April 2008); also convicted of rape in 1984
Years active: 1968; April 2008
Location: Frankston, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Method: Not on record; both victims were former girlfriends
Status: 1968: sentenced to death, commuted to a maximum term of 30 years; paroled 1983. 2008 murder: life imprisonment with no parole, Justice Simon Whelan, January 29, 2010. Appeal: not on record

Leigh Robinson was sentenced to death in Victoria, Australia, in 1968 for the murder of his 17-year-old former girlfriend. The sentence was commuted to a maximum term of 30 years, and he was paroled in 1983. He was in court again for the April 2008 murder of another former girlfriend, Tracey Greenbury, in Frankston, on the southern edge of Melbourne. On January 29, 2010, Justice Simon Whelan sentenced him to life imprisonment with no parole.

In 1968 Robinson killed his 17-year-old former girlfriend. He was convicted of her murder and sentenced to death. The young woman's name, the court that tried him and the date of the verdict are not on record. The sentence was not carried out; it was commuted to a maximum term of 30 years in prison.

Robinson was paroled in 1983. In 1984 he was convicted of raping another woman. The court and the sentence are not on record.

Tracey Greenbury was 33 and had been in a relationship with Robinson. She was killed in April 2008 in Frankston. Her parents attended the sentencing in 2010. When Justice Whelan announced the sentence, they clapped and cheered.

Robinson was 62 when he was sentenced. He was convicted of murder; his defense had argued that the death was accidental. The date of the verdict is not on record.

On January 29, 2010, Justice Whelan sentenced him to life imprisonment with no parole. He told Robinson that his prospects of rehabilitation were poor and that "There is a pressing need to protect the community from you." Whether Robinson appealed the conviction or the sentence is not on record. His present prison is not on record.

No other killings are attributed to Robinson. His two murder convictions, in 1968 and 2008, were separate events.

Timeline

1968: Robinson is sentenced to death for the murder of his 17-year-old former girlfriend; the sentence is later commuted to a maximum term of 30 years.

1983: paroled.

1984: convicted of rape.

April 2008: Tracey Greenbury, 33, is killed in Frankston, Victoria.

January 29, 2010: Justice Simon Whelan sentences him to life imprisonment with no parole.