Clare Garabedian was murdered by two men and a woman on the orders of Martin Graeme Coates in Rivervale, WA, on August 23, 1998. She was only 21.
Coates and Amanda Kaylene Hoy paid a contract killer $2000 to murder Clare. The contract killer, known as Mr X, used a hot shot of heroin while the third man – Thomas Nicholls – smothered her.
They killed Clare after she reported to police that Coates and Hoy held her captive and assaulted her. Had Coates been convicted, he faced prison, so he decided to murder Clare instead.
In 2007, Hoy was sentenced to life and ordered to serve a minimum of 20 years behind bars. She was released in 2018 on compassionate grounds as she was dying of cancer.
Nicholls was given a new trial on appeal. It is unknown what the outcome of that trial was.
Coates was sentenced to life in jail with parole after 23 years. He is due for release in 2030 but will be reviewed by the Prisoners Review Board in mid-January for parole or to get permission to join a resocialisation program.
Clare’s mum Jan Garabedian is begging authorities to keep him locked up or to deport him. Coates is a British citizen.
“I just don’t want him out in Australia. I really believe that he should be deported,” she told a media outlet.
“I can’t imagine what it would be like having him released here. I really can’t.”
“There’s no such thing as closure in anything like this, but it can be left in the past.”
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