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Mr Christopher Campbell-Klyne told the judge Duffy should be shown mercy and not made to spend the rest of his life in jail.
‘In this defendant’s case any sentence is academic in the sense that he is one of only 23 prisoners in respect of whom it has been determined they should spend the rest of their lives in prison.
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He added the whole life sentence had to be balanced against the help Duffy had given in putting his accomplice behind bars.
‘Justice is done by saying if there is a time when he does not represent a risk to the public he may properly be released.
‘The requirements of retribution do not require him to spent the rest of his life in prison.
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But the judge, The Recorder of London Michael Hyam said: ‘That is not for me to decide.
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Mr Campbell-Kylne added since Duffy had given evidence he had become a ‘pariah among pariahs’ in the segregated wing of Whitemoor.
‘His actions have played if not an essential role a very significant role in bringing Mulcahy to justice.
‘Admitting the other offences in which he was involved may provide some comfort.
‘There is nothing more in his power he could have done to make amends’
Mark Dennis, prosecuting, had earlier told how Duffy’s Ruislip victim had never come forward and he was convicted on his confession alone.
The knifepoint attack which happened some time in 1984 was on a young woman out jogging.
After the incident Duffy gave the woman’s Walkman to his wife and bragged about where it had come from.
Duffy will be sentenced this afternoon.
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It emerged Hertfordshire detectives are now interviewing a possible 18 further victims of Duffy and Mulcahy.
One of the incidents happened in Surrey, one from Hertfordshire and the rest are in the London area.
The sex attacks involve one or two offenders and took place between 1978 and 1990.
Detective Superintendent Andy Murphy who led the investigation into the Mulcahy case said: ‘These woman have found the confidence to come forward after seeing justice served in respect of David Mulcahy.
‘It has taken them a great deal of courage to come forward and they will be treated with respect and dealt with as sensitively as possible.
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The officer added: ‘In some respects Duffy has come to terms with his offending and was seeking to make reparation for his crimes.
‘His compelling evidence against Mulcahy in the witness box helped secure the conviction of a serial killer and a rapist.
‘The thoughts of myself and my team, who worked so hard to ensure Duffy was able to give evidence against Mulcahy are with the victims and the families of this evil pair.
‘There is no doubt that the impact of the crimes of these two men was devastating.
Our exhaustive inquiry has meant they will never be back in the streets offending again.
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Before being sentenced, Duffy made his first ever public apology to the victim’s of his crimes.
His barrister, Christopher Campbell-Klyne, told the court: ‘Mr Duffy would like to extend his sincere apologies to all his victims.
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Duffy was then given credit by the judge for confessing to the attacks and stopping Mulcahy from raping two of the women.
The Recorder of London, Judge Michael Hyam gave him 12 years for each rape and nine for each charge of conspiracy to rape.
But in four of the counts, a year was knocked off on each because of his admissions and his interventions when Mulcahy turned violent.
Duffy bowed his head and stared at the floor as the Recorder told him: ‘The damaging effect on the victims of these terrible offences was physical and mental.
‘In some instances, the effects were very grave and continue to affect the victims this day.
‘I see it as my public duty to mark the exceptionally serious nature of this series of offences by severe sentences of imprisonment.
‘But at the same time, I make it clear by the sentences I have imposed that I have taken into account the three features of mitigation.
‘Your evidence, without doubt, formed the basis of the Prosecution case which was mounted against Mulcahy.
‘Without your evidence it may be doubted whether the Prosecution could have succeeded in the successful prosecution of Mulcahy on many of the offences on which he was convicted, including the three murders.
‘It is also plain that you were not guilty of gratuitous violence in these attacks, whereas Mulcahy plainly was and derived satisfaction from it.
‘Also the evident remorse which motivated your pleas of guilty.
You wanted to make a clean breast of all your offending.
‘I accept that your motivation wsa to do something within your power to make amends for what you so wickedly did in the 1980s.
‘The offending contained almost every aggravating feature in rape offences, and other sexual indignities were committed.
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Duffy got 12 years on seven of the rape charges, and 12 years for the other.
He was given three terms of nine years and four sentences of eight years for the seven rape plots.
He also got three years jail for each of the two burglaries.
The prison terms are to run concurrent to each other and to the life sentence Duffy is already serving, meaning they will not affect his total sentence in all.
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Speaking after the case, the woman who became the first rape victim of the ‘Thiller Killers’ when she was attacked in Kilburn in 1982 said she was pleased the case was finally over.
‘I am really relieved.
I have waited such a long time for this,’ explained.
‘As far as I was concerned I have no real feelings for Duffy because I have got over this.
‘I do not see myself as a victim now because I am too stubborn.
I was a victim for that night and that night only.
‘I do hate Mulcahy because he was new to me but I don’t want them to get to me.
‘I walked down the road where it happened a few weeks later.
It is my right to go out at night just like anyone else.
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The woman, who was 21 when she was attacked, said the 18 new potential victims may help their own healing process by coming forward.
‘There is nothing to fear at all.
The process helps to put it all behind you and the police are absolutely brilliant.
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The pair had cruelly mocked the woman when they grabbed her, saying they only wanted to take the teddy bear she was carrying.
She was dragged into a garden where she was stripped blindfolded and raped.
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