This article appeared in a British Newspaper on Sep 26 2007 – Make what you will of it !
Emigrant killed child down under
A FORMER Bookham resident has pleaded guilty to the murder of an eight-year-old schoolgirl in Australia.
Dante Wyndham Arthurs lived in Guildford Road, Bookham, with his parents Ronald and Suzanne between 1993 and 2001.
Arthurs, 22, pleaded guilty to the murder, which has sent shockwaves through Australia.
The shock has been especially felt in the quiet Perth suburb of Canning Vale where eight-year-old schoolgirl Sofia Rodriguez-Urrutia Shu lived and went to school.
The schoolgirl’s naked body was discovered by her 14-year-old brother on June 26 2006.
Surrey Police have come under fire from Australian police and the murdered girl’s family following revelations that Arthurs was arrested in 2001, when he was just 16 years old, on suspicion of causing actual bodily harm to a 12-year-old girl in Bookham. (more…)