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    Snuff Movies, Male Prostitutes, Vampire Rapes & Melbourne Underworld Hits : The Execution of Shane Chartres-Abbott, 28.

    http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/...220652510.html


    If author Anne Rice was searching for grisly fodder for her next vampire novel, she need look no further than the bizarre life of Melbourne man Shane Chartres-Abbott.

    To his neighbours Chartres-Abbott, 28, who was gunned down in a daylight ambush last Wednesday, was a polite young man.

    He lived quietly with his girlfriend in suburban Reservoir, his only eccentricity a thick black overcoat, which he wore even in summer.

    But by night Chartres-Abbott was a male prostitute, who allegedly told a client he was a vampire, older than the city of Melbourne, who drank blood to survive.

    The secret life of Chartres-Abbott began to unravel late last month during a sensational court trial, in which he was accused of raping and attacking a client.

    The county court heard the alleged victim, a 30-year-old woman, was found in a foetal position in the shower cubicle of a room in South Yarra's Hotel Saville on August 17 last year.

    She was half conscious, blood bubbling from her mouth, with bruising to her neck and jaw, teeth marks in her thigh and a five-centimetre piece of her tongue ripped out.

    The woman told the jury that, days before she was attacked, Chartres-Abbott had told her he was a vampire.

    He was said to specialise in sadomasochistic sex and supposedly carried a black bag of sex toys including a dildo, whip, ropes, condoms and handcuffs.

    Chartres-Abbott's lawyer Alan Hands was scathing, claiming the prosecution's case was a story worthy of Bram Stoker and a mystery worthy of Agatha Christie.

    "But both of these are works of fiction and that is what their case is," he said.

    But the defence was to make an equally startling claim.

    Mr Hands told the jury the victim and a friend were grooming Chartres-Abbott to appear in a "snuff movie" - a pornographic film in which the actors are actually murdered.

    He alleged the victim had gone cold on the idea of recruiting Chartres-Abbott because she had developed an affection for him.

    Mr Hands said the woman was attacked after Chartres-Abbott left the hotel about 5am.

    The victim said she had hired Chartres-Abbott from Cloud Nine Escorts in Balwyn, a company that employs about 30 male and female prostitutes, because she felt "horny".

    She said she had sex with Chartres-Abbott, who used the name "Simon", on a couple of previous occasions, paying up to $880 for a session.

    But on the night of August 16 she said Chartres-Abbott tied her naked to the bed, pushed a pillow in her face and anally raped her.

    "I feel scared, because I didn't know he was going to do that," she told the court.

    The victim claimed the next thing she remembered was waking up in hospital.

    She spent 17 days in the Alfred Hospital.

    The victim insisted Chartres-Abbott was her attacker and denied she had ever intended to recruit him for a snuff movie.

    The jury will never learn the truth.

    Last Wednesday, Chartres-Abbott was gunned down by two men outside his home in Howard Street, Reservoir, as he left for the fifth day of the trial just before 9am with his girlfriend and her father.

    Ironically for a man who allegedly claimed to be a vampire, he was shot in the neck.

    His girlfriend was unharmed and her father was bashed, but did not require hospital treatment.

    Senior Sergeant Clive Rust said police believed Chartres-Abbott was ambushed.

    "It does surprise me, obviously it appears to be a planned attack, and yes, quite vicious," he said.

    The police air wing, the dog squad and uniformed police scoured the area for the two men without result.

    After news of the slaying reached the court, Judge Bill White discharged the jury, urging the members to seek counselling provided by the court.

    "It has been a difficult trial, and it's been a difficult trial for all parties, including myself," Judge White said.

    "Though it is a tragic thing that this sort of thing can occur in our state, it appears that it has.

    "I can only express the court's sympathy to the family and friends of the accused."

    Tracey, a booking agent at Cloud Nine Escorts, said the claims that Chartres-Abbott was a vampire and specialised in sadomasochism were all "rubbish".

    "Quite frankly what he was, was a normal, outgoing friendly young man who enjoyed life's experiences," she said.

    Tracey said Chartres-Abbott was a "consummate professional", who was popular with both male and female clients.

    She had seen him before he was shot, she said, and he had appeared elated about his chances of beating the rape charges.

    "He was happy to get this monkey off his back and get back to a normal life," Tracey said.

    "I don't know why anyone would want him dead."

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    5 years later ...


    EVEN for a city in the grip of gangland warfare, the brazen 2003 murder of Shane Chartres-Abbott was a shock.

    The young male prostitute was shot dead by a gunman outside his home at Reservoir as an accomplice assaulted his girlfriend and her father.

    Chartres-Abbott had just left home to travel to court to face allegations of a vicious attack on a young woman in a South Yarra hotel room.

    It was to be alleged Chartres-Abbott - who claimed to be a 200-year-old vampire - bit off part of her tongue during an onslaught.

    But an even bigger shock was to emerge three years down the track.

    The shooter - a ruthless Melbourne criminal now in jail for gangland killings - approached police, confessed to killing Chartres-Abbott and alleged one serving and one former police officer were complicit in the killing.

    He told investigators from the Briars Taskforce that Peter Lalor, then a detective sergeant, had given him the address of his victim. The hitman accused David Waters, a former detective, of knowing about the plot.

    Both have strongly denied involvement and claimed they have been unfairly targeted.

    But the fallout from the Chartres-Abbott killing reached higher ranks.

    Former assistant commissioner Noel Ashby was to be accused of leaking details of the investigation and charged with perjury.

    He was acquitted after Office of Police Integrity hearings into the matter were ruled invalid.

    Ex-Police Association boss Paul Mullett, who was accused of telling Mr Lalor he was a Briars suspect, was charged but the matter was later dropped.

    The force's media boss, Stephen Linnell, resigned before a conviction for perjury was overturned
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    6 Years later ...


    http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/va...318-2gae8.html

    March 18, 2013
    The murder of a male gigolo and self-confessed "vampire" while on trial for the rape and mutilation of a woman was brazen and conducted with "frightening brutality," a Melbourne court has heard.

    Crown prosecutor Andrew Tinney, SC, alleged the shooter of Shane Chartres-Abbott was a career criminal who had Evangelos Goussis as his accomplice.

    Mr Tinney told Melbourne Magistrates Court on Monday that the shooter was helped by a man, who cannot be named, who was an associate of the woman's boyfriend, Mark Perry.

    Mr Tinney said in his opening to a contested committal hearing that the shooter also had help before and after the 2003 murder from a former and a then-serving police officer.

    He alleged the former member, David Waters, and Detective Sergeant Peter Lalor helped the shooter ascertain Mr Chartres–Abbott's correct address.

    Mr Tinney alleged Mr Waters was also handed the murder weapon, a .357 magnum, on the day and after the murder by the shooter and that Mr Lalor helped him establish a form of alibi.

    Mr Tinney alleged that several days after the murder the shooter collected the firearm from Mr Waters at a hotel in Brooklyn and that he disposed of it by throwing it into the sea at Eastern Beach in Geelong.

    Mr Waters and Mr Lalor have not been charged and have repeatedly and strenuously denied any involvement in the murder.

    Goussis and his co-accused are charged with murdering Mr Chartres-Abbott in the driveway him of his Reservoir home as he travelled to court.

    Mr Tinney said the reason Mr Chartres-Abbott was killed was because he was believed to have raped and viciously assaulted a young woman named Penny, who was a former girlfriend of Mr Perry's.

    He alleged that Mr Perry instigated the murder and that Goussis' co-accused was approached by Mr Perry.

    Mr Chartres-Abbott, 28, was shot dead in the driveway of his home in June, 2003, while leaving to attend a trial in the County Court.

    He was defending allegations he raped and seriously injured an exotic dancer whose tongue was partly bitten off in a savage assault.

    The co-accused then approached the shooter, who was then approached by an old friend, Robert "Bluey Bob" Mather, who told the shooter that the co-accused would like to him to contact the co-accused.

    Mr Tinney said the co-accused told the shooter it was the ex-partner of the woman's to have Mr Chartres-Abbott "dealt with", which the shooter understood to mean killed.

    It was alleged the shooter later spoke to Mr Waters and that soon after, met with him and Mr Lalor at a hotel where Mr Lalor allegedly gave the shooter Mr Chartres-Abbott's address.

    The court heard that the shooter and Goussis then carried out surveillance in Reservoir and inside and outside the County Court, where Mr Chartres-Abbott was on trial for rape and serious injury charges.

    Mr Tinney said as Mr Chartres-Abbott left his home on June 4, 2003, with his girlfriend and her father, the deceased said "Oh my God". His girlfriend said she heard two shots in quick succession.

    The shooter would later tell police that he put himself between Mr Chartres-Abbott and his two companions and aimed his first shot at his chest and his second hit him in the neck.

    In detailing allegations about the "getaway", Mr Tinney said the shooter and Goussis drove to Flemington, where Mr Waters was waiting and that Goussis gave him the handgun and "perhaps the beanie and a scanner" for safe-keeping.

    In what Mr Tinney described as "a number of steps" that involved a deliberate manipulation of the Magistrates Court and Victoria Police, the shooter attended a police station where Mr Lalor executed a warrant of apprehension on him for some driving charges.

    He alleged that Mr Lalor bailed the shooter, who gave the policeman $1500 cash and told him to "have a drink".

    Mr Tinney said that the shooter had made six statements in which he had implicated the two accused and others in the murder.

    He continued: "It would be correct to say that [the shooter] did not provide all of the information upfront from the start, releasing information progressively to police in the statements.

    "It would also be correct to acknowledge that sometimes [the shooter] said things in one statement or another that was shown by subsequent information disclosed by him to either be incorrect or deliberately false.

    "He provided reasons for the manner in which he provided the information to the police."

    Mr Tinney said the prosecution brief contained call charge records and other material including flight details and casino records that established in the month leading-up to the murder there was a "strong connection" between Mr Perry and the co-accused, between the co-accused and the shooter and between the shooter and Goussis.

    He described the shooter and Mr Waters, Mr Lalor and Mr Mather as having a "connection" between Goussis and Mr Waters.

    The last time Mr Perry was seen by investigators was in September 2007 during a meeting with the co-accused.

    Police have issued a $1 million reward for information leading to Mr Perry's capture. He has not been seen since 2007 and is alleged to have been the organiser of the murder.

    Mr Tinney said that Mr Perry had "decided that vengeance was the order of the day" for the alleged rape and assault of his former girlfriend.

    In cross-examination on Monday, the shooter has denied changing his statements after being supplied with information by police and he has also denied that police offered promises or inducements in return for his co-operation.

    Mr Tinney said that the shooter had not been a suspect until he chose, three years later, to reveal his involvement, take responsibility and implicate his co-offenders.
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    http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/ma...514-zrc7t.html

    The key witness in the trial of three men accused of murdering self-proclaimed ‘vampire’ gigolo Shane Chartres-Abbott has told a Supreme Court jury that he was the gunman who pulled the trigger.

    Giving evidence via videolink on Wednesday, the killer claimed Evangelos Goussis was with him when he shot Chartres-Abbott outside his Reservoir home on the morning of Wednesday, June 4, 2003.

    Asked by Crown prosecutor Andrew Tinney, SC, how he became involved in the crime, the killer, who cannot be named, explained that a friend handed him Warren Shea’s phone number when he walked into a Carlton hotel, and asked him to call Mr Shea.

    The killer said he made the call from a public phone box and agreed to meet him.

    The pair allegedly talked about how Chartres-Abbott had raped and maimed the former girlfriend of one of Mr Shea’s close friends.

    The killer claimed the conversation was in relation to ‘‘evening the score’’.

    He said Mr Shea’s close friend wanted Chartres-Abbott harmed for what he had done.

    The killer was not sure if the name Mark Perry, Mr Shea’s close friend, came up during the meeting. He had never met Mr Perry.


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    Asked about Mr Shea’s demeanour during the meeting, the killer said: ‘‘He weren’t too happy about it. It went against his grain what happened. I shot Chartres-Abbott as a result of that conversation.’’

    The killer said he offered to take care of Chartres-Abbott personally ‘‘for a favour’’.

    He had been told Chartres-Abbott had made ‘‘a shocking mess’’ of the woman and ‘‘bit chunks out of her and raped her and left her for dead’’.

    The killer said if that had happened to one of his relatives, the person who did it would not be walking around in 24 hours.

    ‘‘I felt bad about it,’’ the killer said.

    Mr Perry, 46, Mr Goussis, 46, and Mr Shea, 42, have pleaded not guilty to murdering Chartres-Abbott.

    The Crown case against the three men is that the shooting of Chartres-Abbott, 28, was an act of revenge.

    Chartres-Abbott was on trial in the County Court at the time for the rape and mutilation of Mr Perry’s ex-girlfriend at a Prahran hotel in July 2002. The woman was found naked, bloodied and unconscious in the hotel room. There was evidence on her body of strangulation and bruising. Bite marks were on her body and part of her tongue had been ripped out.

    A male escort who had both male and female clients, Chartres-Abbott had previously told the woman he was a 200-year-old vampire who no longer drank blood because he was living in the real world.

    The three men were allegedly guilty of murder because they had been involved in a joint criminal enterprise to kill Chartres-Abbott.

    The crime remained unsolved for several years until the killer told police in 2006 about his involvement and implicated the three accused.

    The three men say the killer cannot be believed, is an inveterate liar and they were not involved in any way in the murder.

    The killer said once he had agreed to kill Chartres-Abbott he began surveillance of his target's home and studied his routines.

    He said he watched Chartres-Abbott's home in Howard Street from a car parked outside Reservoir train station, and noted his target left home between 8am and 8.30am to attend his County Court trial.

    The killer said he initially planned to wait outside apartments opposite Chartres-Abbott's home and shoot him at night, but instead opted for a morning attack, where he would "shoot him in the front yard of the premises" and then run down a laneway to a getaway car.

    The strategy "would have been a plan made in consultation with Ange (Mr Goussis)", the killer said.

    The trial, before Justice Lex Lasry, continues.

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    Ex-boyfriend of alleged 'vampire gigolo' victim spoke of revenge killing, court told

    28 May 2014


    http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/ex...528-393x5.html

    The former boyfriend of a woman allegedly raped and mutilated by self-proclaimed "vampire gigolo" Shane Chartres-Abbott spoke of revenge after the attack, a court has heard.

    Sales manager Max Walker told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that his friend, Mark Perry - one of three men accused of being involved in Chartres-Abbott's murder - had had "lots of feelings and emotions for this girl".

    Mr Walker said that after Chartres-Abbott had been arrested and charged with rape, Mr Perry told him "he was going to get him whether he was in or out of prison ... make him pay for it."

    "[He] said he was going to kill him. He was obviously upset and quite distraught and emotional about the whole issue.

    Mr Walker said he could not remember the exact words Mr Perry had used when discussing Chartres-Abbott.

    "It was just a conversation and he just said that he was going to make sure this guy was dead."

    Mr Walker claimed Mr Perry would threaten to kill Chartres-Abbott every time they met.

    "We met regularly so I wouldn't be able to put an exact number to it but it was a constant conversation. We'd meet several times a week."

    Asked by Crown prosecutor Andrew Tinney, SC, if Mr Perry had given any further details as to how he might kill Chartres-Abbott, Mr Walker replied: "The only detail was that he had to wait until he went to court before he could get his address."

    Mr Walker said he could not recall ever speaking to Mr Perry again after Chartres-Abbott was killed on June 4, 2003.

    Cross-examined by defence barrister Michael Tovey, QC, for Mr Perry, Mr Walker agreed he had owed Mr Perry some money but was not sure of the amount.

    Mr Perry, 46, Evangelos Goussis, 46, and Warren Shea, 42, have pleaded not guilty to murdering Chartres-Abbott.

    The Crown case against the three accused men is that the shooting of Chartres-Abbott, 28, was an act of revenge.

    Chartres-Abbott had been on trial in the County Court at the time for the rape and mutilation of Mr Perry's ex-girlfriend at a hotel in Prahran in July 2002.

    The woman was found naked, bloodied and unconscious in the hotel room. There was evidence she had been strangled and beaten. Part of her tongue was ripped out and bite marks and bruises were on her body.

    A male escort who had both male and female clients, Chartres-Abbott had previously told the woman he was a 200-year-old vampire who no longer drank blood because he was living in the real world.

    The Crown contends that Mr Perry, Mr Goussis and Mr Shea are guilty of murder because they had been involved in a joint criminal enterprise to kill Chartres-Abbott.

    The Crown claimed Mr Perry contacted his friend Mr Shea, who contacted the killer to take care of Chartres-Abbott.

    The alleged killer claimed he was with Mr Goussis when he shot Chartres-Abbott.

    In 2006 the alleged killer told police about his involvement and implicated the three accused.

    The three men say the alleged killer cannot be believed, is an inveterate liar and they were not involved in any way in the murder.

    The trial, before Justice Lex Lasry, continues.
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