Crespin Adanguidi

Crespin Adanguidi (born 13 September 1977) is an Australian triple murderer (originally from The Republic of Benin), currently serving 3 sentences of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for the murder of 3 members of the family of his homosexual lover, Raymond Shen, at Maroubra on 1 February 2003.
Background
Adanguidi was born in Benin and emigrated to Australia in 1998. In 2000 he and his girlfiend had a son. They married in 2001 and had a second son, but separated shortly thereafter.
Shen was born in China and emigrated to Australia in 1991. His family (wife Shiquin Zhu, son Pin Shen and daughter Christy Bo Shen) followed him in 1995. He worked in the travel industry.
The two men met in 2000 when Adanguidi was working as a security guard at the Rockdale apartment building where Shen and his family lived. They developed a friendship and then a sexual relationship.
The Murders
Adanguidi decided to rob the Shens. He invited Shen to come over to his unit on the evening of 31 January 2003. While he was there Adanguidi assaulted him and tied him up. He demanded money from Shen, falsely claiming a Slovenian gang was after him, that he had to pay off a police officer and that he had to leave the country because he had killed a pharmacist.
Adanguidi left Shen at his unit and drove Shen's car to the Shen residence. Pin confronted Adanguidi with a tennis racquet and was shot in the head at close range. Christy Bo telephoned emergency services but the call was immediately cut off by Adanguidi, who shot her in the back of the head at close range. Shiquin Zhu was tortured and then bashed to death with Adanguidi's pistol.
Adanguidi stole a number of items from the unit and took them to a girlfriend's house. Meanwhile, Shen had freed himself and called emergency services. As Adanguidi arrived back at his unit to deal with Shen, he found police officers waiting for him and was arrested.
Trial, Conviction and Sentencing
Adanguidi admitted the killings but pleaded not guilty to the murders on the basis of mental illness.
On 14 April 2005 a Supreme Court jury found Adanguidi guilty of the murders.
On 3 June 2005 Adanguidi was sentenced to 3 consecutive terms of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, Supreme Court Justice Barr noting that "I am satisfied that the level of the offender’s culpability is so extreme that the community interest in retribution, punishment, community protection and deterrence can only be met through the imposition of the maximum sentence for each offence."
On 3 November 2006 Adanguidi appealed against his sentences. On 15 December 2006 the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal dismissed the appeal.

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