VIC: Reward offered for pensioner s death

AAP General News (Australia)
04-06-1999
VIC: Reward offered for pensioner s death

Melbourne police have offered a $50,000 reward for information on the brutal murder of a
65-year-old man, who may have been tortured before being killed with his own walking stick.

Detective Superintendent DAVID SPRAGUE says PETER BINNS, who had changed his name to JOSEPH
EDWARD HECKER, was stabbed to death in his inner-suburban Fitzroy flat in July 1996.

He says Mr BINNS may have been tortured before being killed with his own walking stick,
which has a double-edged knife fitted to its end.

Superintendent SPRAGUE says police have a number of suspects and believe the attackers were
known to Mr BINNS, as there was no sign of a break-in at his flat.

An inquest into the death begins in the Melbourne Coroners Court this afternoon.

AAP RTV hmg/sp/jlw/kbw/jn

KEYWORD: BINNS (MELBOURNE)

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