Vampire killer loses bid to leave jail

5th March 2010

A ROCKHAMPTON woman known as Queensland's "vampire killer" has lost her court bid to be released from jail on parole.

Tracey Wigginton, 44, has been in jail on a life sentence since January 1991 for the 1989 murder of 47-year-old council worker Edward Baldock.

She and three other women lured Mr Baldock into a car at Kangaroo Point and then drove him to a park at West End where Wigginton stabbed him 27 times and drank his blood.

Wigginton's latest application for parole was refused in July last year, a decision which her lawyers challenged in the Queensland Supreme Court in December.

They argued the rejection of her application and denial of a transfer back to the low-security Numinbah prison farm were unlawful.

They told the court Wigginton was in a catch-22 situation because she was unable to get parole until she was moved back to Numinbah.

But, they said, authorities would not agree to her transfer because of concerns about her behaviour if she did not get parole.

Justice Glenn Martin on Friday dismissed Wigginton's application, but only provided reasons to the parties involved in the case.