Child-killing Confession `overheard By Prisoner'
Illawarra Mercury
Saturday November 22, 2003
A CONFESSION by Greg Domaszewicz to killing the child was overheard by an extremely reliable jail inmate, an inquest into the death of Moe toddler Jaidyn Leskie heard yesterday.
Detective Senior Sergeant Michael Roberts said he had been investigating the case when he was introduced to an inmate who said he had overheard Mr Domaszewicz talking about how he had killed the child.
Detective Roberts said ``Prisoner F", who cannot be identified, described how his ears ``pricked up" when he heard Mr Domaszewicz say: ``I should never have tied the kid to the crowbar."
On January 1, 1998, Jaidyn's body, with a fractured skull and broken arm, was recovered from a dam near Moe, where it had been weighed down with a crowbar. Mr Domaszewicz had been babysitting the night Jaidyn disappeared in June 1997.
At the time of Mr Domaszewicz's alleged confession in February 1998 he was on remand for Jaidyn's murder, and was later acquitted by a Supreme Court jury.
``Prisoner F" told Snr Sgt Roberts he believed Mr Domaszewicz wanted ``to get it off his chest".
The prisoner overheard Mr Domaszewicz saying it was ``originally an accident that he tried to fix".
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