Eyes downcast, his head framed by the shadow from the flash and his thick hands a patchwork of freckles branded with scars from the removal of tattoos, the man captured by the police camera on the day he killed my sister was a pitiful figure!
it should have been easy, but neither family nor the law could stop this man from murdering Vicki Cleary. On a sunny August morning in 1987, outside the kindergarten where she worked, Peter Raymond Keogh stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death.
When Phil Cleary heard the jury's verdict of not guilty on grounds of provocation, he was outraged by the criminal justice system that let a bad man get away with murder. For the next fourteen years he combed police and court records detailing Keogh's life and crimes and listened to the stories of good women who had suffered the criminal's terror. Angered by what he heard and read, he waged a public battle against those who implicated Vicki in her own murder.
Impassioned and articulate, Phil Cleary takes us on his journey to set the record straight and to seek the justice that was denied his sister.
This is a heartbreaking story of a brother's obsession with bringing killings of the intimate kind to the public forum. It's about what happens when murder casts its shadow across an ordinary family.
Phil Cleary is a media personality, well-known former Independent Member of the Federal Parliament and a Victorian football legend.