A former tip in Frankston may be excavated in an attempt to find the body of murdered schoolgirl Prudence Bird following an admission by her killer.
The Victorian Supreme Court heard convicted double murderer Leslie Camilleri has told police he dumped the teenager’s body on the site after killing her 21 years ago.
Camilleri pleaded guilty to killing the 13-year-old girl after snatching her off the street near her home in Glenroy in 1992.
Camilleri approached police in May asking for maps of the Frankston area in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs.
The court heard officers took Camilleri to the old tip site in Frankston in August where he said he had left the girl’s body in a wardrobe.
He also told police he murdered a New South Wales man on the same night and scattered his remains at the tip.
Camilleri told police he removed the distributor cap from the car he drove there to make it look like it had been abandoned, then cut a hole in the fence and went into the tip and disposed of the bodies.
But police remain sceptical about the admissions, telling the court there are inconsistencies in his story.
They said Camilleri had told them he went through scrub to get to the tip, but the site is next to a sports oval.
He also told police he could not see any houses while at the tip, which is situated a residential area.
Justice Elizabeth Curtain had urged Camilleri to was dumped.
But Camilleri’s lawyer says he was only ever 80 per cent sure about the location, because he was not from Melbourne and had been taking drugs at the time of the incident.
While acknowledging inconsistencies in Camilleri’s story, Justice Curtain said there should be further investigation of his claims for the sake of Prue’s mother Jenny.
Camilleri was due to be sentenced for Prue’s murder on Thursday, but this has been delayed.
