Janelle Patton
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Janelle Patton was a Sydney woman who was brutally murdered on Norfolk Island in 2002. The case made national headlines in Australia, as she was the first person to be murdered there since 1855, when the island was a penal colony.
Patton was living and working on the island at the time of her death, but was not a local.
On 1 February, 2006 Glenn Peter Charles McNeill, a New Zealand man, was arrested for her murder near the town of Nelson, on the South Island of New Zealand after being identified by an Australian Federal Police investigation.<ref>Template:Cite news </ref> He was subsequently extradited to Norfolk Island and formally charged with the crime.
McNeill claimed in the Norfolk Island Court of Petty Sessions that he accidentally hit Patton with his car.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He was transferred to Silverwater Correctional Centre in Sydney and took part in a directions hearing by conference call in late February 2006. A further directions hearing is expected on April 21 followed by a committal hearing on Norfolk Island on May 22 2006<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>.
(Note: Late in January 2006, the Norfolk Island Administration revoked a long-standing law enabling death by hanging for capital offences).
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