Coroner to decide on Cafferkey inquest

A Victorian coroner will hear submissions into whether an inquest should be held into the murder of Sarah Cafferkey by a man whose parole had just ended.

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Sarah Cafferkey. (AAP)

A Victorian coroner is being asked to consider whether to hold an inquest into the death of Sarah Cafferkey, who was murdered by a man whose parole for killing another young woman had expired just days earlier.

State Coroner Judge Ian Gray will hear submissions on Tuesday to determine whether an inquest should go ahead into the 22-year-old's murder in Bacchus Marsh, west of Melbourne, in November 2012.

Her body was found in a wheelie bin nine days after she was murdered by Stephen James Hunter, 47, who is now serving life without parole.

Hunter served 13 years in prison for stabbing 18-year-old Jacqueline Mathews to death in 1986 before being released on parole. That parole period had ended just days before he killed Ms Cafferkey.


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