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Jill Meagher was a 29-year-old Irish woman living in Australia who was raped and murdered while walking home from a pub in Brunswick, an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, in the early hours of 22 September 2012. Meagher's case was initially that of a missing person, as she had failed to return home to her husband, Tom Meagher. But it soon became a homicide investigation. Her disappearance attracted widespread media attention and a review of closed-circuit television images from the area of her disappearance. Her body was discovered six days later near Gisborne South, about 50 kilometres (31 miles) from Brunswick. Adrian Ernest Bayley pleaded guilty to Meagher's rape and murder. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a 35-year non-parole period. His bid to appeal his minimum term, in September 2013, was unsuccessful. In May 2015, Bayley was sentenced to another 18 years and his non-parole period was extended from 35 to 43 years for three other rape convictions. The case is noteworthy for the high level of sympathy and grief that it generated both in Australia and Ireland and also for the legal consequences that it helped to generate. ==Victim== Gillian "Jill" Meagher was born as Gillian McKeon on 30 October 1982 in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland.〔("Father says justice done as Jill Meagher murderer jailed" ), ''Irish Times'', 19 June 2013.〕 She spent her early childhood in Termonfeckin village to the north of Drogheda. Meagher first moved to Australia when she was aged 9 when her father, George McKeon, worked in Perth. She spent several years in Perth, in which time she attended Bull Creek Primary School and Rossmoyne High School before returning to Ireland with her family in 1996.〔(Yahoo news. )〕 Back in Ireland, she attended Drogheda Grammar School and Saint Oliver's Community College in Drogheda before graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree from University College Dublin. After graduation, she worked for the Irish national broadcaster RTE. Meagher did not formally move to Australia until 2009 until after she met and married Tom Meagher in Ireland in 2008. After arriving in Australia, she settled in Melbourne and began working for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). She stayed in touch with her parents who were by then living again in Perth.〔http://www.news.com.au/national/hearts-break-across-the-globe-for-jill-meagher-the-girl-who-liked-to-sing/story-fncynjr2-1226484250547/ News.com.au website.〕 In September 2012, she had come back to Melbourne after visiting her father in Perth when he had a bout of ill health. Meagher worked for the ABC in an administrative and occasional on-air role at the 774 ABC Melbourne radio station. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Death of Jill Meagher」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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