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Who is Samuel Leonard Boyd?

Samuel Leonard Boyd infiltrated a Sydney dormitory where the three women worked as supervisors.He raped the women after she was denied access to a dorm with teenage girls.

The niece of a woman killed by one of Australia’s worst killers has detailed how her brave aunt and two other women sacrificed themselves to save a group of teenagers from the monster.

Helen Hartup and two other women worked as a supervisor

Helen Hartup and two other women were fast asleep at the Sydney boarding school where they worked as supervisors in 1983 when they were startled awake by a man holding a bloody knife.

Boyd asked the women if there were any 16- to 18-year-old girls among the girls in the next bedroom so he could “have s*x with them.”

All three were ‘absolute heroes’ in stopping him, says Mrs Hartup’s niece, Margaret Lees.

‘He knew the layout, he knew where the girls were and how to get to them.

‘There was no way they were going to let him…and I’m not sure that’s as well known given everything that happened that night.’

It’s been nearly 40 years since her 57-year-old aunt was murdered, but Margaret can still smell the scent of Ella Innoxa powder every time she walks past a department store counter.

“I have to do a double take,” she says. I hang around and get some on my hand.

Nine-year-old Helen was ‘her favorite aunt’ and Margaret fondly remembers visiting her in Morpeth in the NSW Hunter Valley.

She wore beautiful clothes. I remember touching her sleeves, they were always very soft, and if I got close to her, she would hug me.

‘She was always very warm and very kind. She always had a laugh and made the most amazing cake.

She didn’t deserve what happened to her.

Boyd emigrated from Scotland to Australia as a child and was soon introduced to the police. His mother also worked at the Glenfield school in the 1970s, where Boyd frequently visited and met Helen.

Victim

His first victim in 1982 was Rhonda Celea. Detectives found the mother of two at her Busby home naked in the hallway, with a bloodstained girl’s dress over her face and an open laceration on her throat.

Seven months later, she was drinking with Gregory Wiles at the Arch Bar Hotel in Liverpool before heading to Scaramouche Disco in the early hours of April 22, 1983.

The couple shared a joint in Glenfield and Boyd claims the next memory of him is the one he wonders about, covered in blood.

Mr. Wiles’s body was later found on the side of a road with serious head injuries from Boyd’s claw hammer which fell on the nearby school.

That night, Margaret, who was heavily pregnant with her second child, was in the kitchen giving her baby a bath when the radio caught her attention.

‘I will never forget it, reports of something terrible happening at Glenfield Park School pricked up my ears. No further details are available at this time.’

He called her mother right away and asked her what was going on.

Caught

Boyd was found that morning in a Lansvale trailer park, disoriented, disheveled and covered in blood.

He maintained that his last memory of him was buying a pack of cigarette papers at a Casula service station with Mr. Wiles.

The next day, Margaret went into labor.

Ella’s brother Malcolm was taken to the morgue to identify Helen behind a glass partition.

“She was absolutely seared into her memory and from that point forward, she was not the same person.”

Margaret’s mother was advised not to attend the prosecution hearings, where photographic evidence would be admitted. But she was in court every day since the first trial which was aborted and very distressing for everyone.

Boyd has twice tried to get a term without parole

Since his conviction, Boyd has twice tried to get a term without parole. The last time, in 2017, Margaret had moved to Cairns from Darwin and her contact information was not up to date on record.

While she was upset that none of Helen’s family members were in court, she was relieved both by Judge Ken Carruthers in 1994 and by Judge Peter Johnson in 2017, who understood the seriousness of what Boyd had done to the court. refuse to determine his sentence.

“That was the only chance I ever got to stand up in court in front of that guy and tell him exactly what I thought of him and exactly what he did to our family,” she says.

“In the time that he’s been in jail and had time to think, I wonder if he has any idea how dire the consequences are not just that night, but in the 40 years since.”

Quick Facts

• Helen Hartup and two other women bravely stopped killer Samuel Leonard Boyd
• Boyd infiltrated a Sydney dorm where the three women worked as supervisors
• He raped the women after they refused him access to a dorm with teen girls
• Boyd is serving life sentences and failed on appeal for a non-parole period twice 
• Helen’s niece Margaret Lees says her ‘hero’ aunt was always ‘warm and kind’