Kevin Matthews, his lover Michelle Burgess and a man connected to Burgess murdered Carolyn Matthews on July 12, 2001 in South Australia.
Matthews took Carolyn’s children on an outing so Burgess and David William Edgar Key could kill her in her home.
After Carolyn was murdered, he returned to the house and sent the three children inside so they could find their mum, thus setting up a flimsy alibi.
Key turned on the pair and was sentenced to 20 years.
Matthews and Burgess were convicted and sentenced to life with their non-parole periods due to expire in 2037.
Matthews is now an inmate at the South Australian Government run Cadell Training Centre.
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This is a low-security jail operated by the Department of Corrections. The centre publishes the Courier each month.
In February, someone decided it was appropriate to run a poem by the killer – and give it an ‘award’.
The poem is called ‘Goodbye’ and is supposed to be about his sadness at losing a lover. It’s not clear if the poem is about Carolyn, the woman who killed her on Matthews’ behalf or another person.
The Adelaide Advertiser reports this femicide perpetrator was fishing for female ‘pen pals’ on a website from the prison.
A Corrections spokesperson told the Advertiser it was taking steps to ensure killers’ poems are not published again.
It should never have been published in the first place.
This would have an enormous impact on Carolyn’s children and other loved ones.
It also shows how the prison system minimises the crime of violent men – especially men who commit femicide.
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