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In September 2000, prosecutor Paul Rutledge told the Brisbane Supreme Court that Fraser, who had pleaded not guilty to the charges, had attacked the little girl for nothing other than sexual gratification. Mr. Rutledge put it to the court: "Why did he (Fraser) follow a nine-year-old into the lot and hit her so hard she dropped to the ground? Why did he strip her naked?'
Eye-witness Lynette Kiernan, who had seen the assault from her house, told the court that she had also seen Fraser standing next to Keyra at the traffic lights the day before the little girl was murdered.
The court heard evidence that Keyra was excited that for the second week her parents had allowed her to walk the 30-minute route from their North Rockhampton home to school and that she had left her friends outside the school gate at 3 p.m. to make her way home alone.
On the day she was murdered, Keyra turned off Robinson Street and as she was walking through a vacant lot on the fringe of the bush, Fraser attacked her from behind, knocked her to the ground and set upon her and raped her. Finished, Fraser hid the little girl's naked body behind a tree and threw her school bag into the bush in the opposite direction. He returned a short time later in his red Mazda sedan, bundled the body in the trunk, and took off.
The court heard that due the advanced decomposition of her body, it was impossible to determine how Keyra died or if she had been sexually assaulted. But, Mr. Rutledge pointed out, there was no escaping the damning tape recording of a conversation Fraser had in the Rockhampton watch house in which he asked another prisoner to dispose of a knife he had hidden in a peg box in his apartment. Mr. Rutledge told the court that the simple explanation of the facts were that Fraser plunged that same knife into the neck and upper body of the little girl.
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