Australia’s youngest-ever murderer, who stabbed a three-year-old girl through the heart, is free from jail and listed on dating websites.
‘SLD’ was just 13 when he murdered toddler Courtney Morley-Clarke in January 2001 on the NSW Central Coast after creeping into her house to steal her brother’s video games.
Now Daily Mail Australia can reveal the twisted killer is online and looking for love – but having been granted lifetime anonymity, the public will never link him to his twisted crime.
Describing himself as a ‘just a simple boy,’ who resides ‘in a beautiful city in Australia’ the killer, now 38, says he ‘lives alone,’ and boasts he is a virgin.
Under the ‘About me,’ section of another popular website SLD has written that he is ‘looking for a girlfriend or wife.’
SLD – who can’t be named or pictured under the lifelong suppression order – has also added a single smiling photo of himself.
The page seems to have been made when SLD was briefly released in Wollongong NSW in September 2023 before he swiftly returned to custody after breaching conditions.
It is unclear if he has accessed any replies since his release on the weekend, however approaching woman in person or online is in breech of his supervision order.
SLD is on listed and pictured on dating apps hunting for a partner
Courtney Morley-Clarke was just three years old when she was murdered
SLD walked free from Long Bay Correctional Centre on Saturday morning
Murderer SLD, who later boasted about the killing on the Central Coast (the crime scene is pictured in 2001), was released on Saturday
Authorities believe he is at high risk of re-offending because of his obsession with finding a girlfriend and starting a sexual relationship after being locked up behind bars for more than 20 years.
Despite some disturbing concerns, he was still released last week on a supervision order.
During a two-day hearing last week, psychiatrists said the killer, is fixated on getting revenge for perceived wrongs and could react violently if he felt he was unfairly treated.
But they also said that keeping him in jail would be detrimental to his mental health and his ability to assimilate into the community at a later date.
Justice Mark Ierace agreed to his release but said the situation was unusual.
‘It goes without saying this is a very challenging case,’ he said. ‘He has only been out in the community for four months since he was only 13 years old.’
Justice Ierace had options to impose a continuing detention order to keep him behind bars for another 12 months, or granting the extended supervision order.
While there are conditions around his release, SLD has previously admitted that he would be prepared to kill again if something ‘big’ took place.
In a chilling warning, he added: ‘If I kill someone, it won’t be a child.’
SLD carried his bag of belongings to a waiting car upon his release on Saturday morning
Aged 13 years and 10 months, SLD snatched Courtney in the middle of the night and stabbed her through the heart before leaving her body in long grass 300m from her home (pictured)
SLD breached his last release by approaching mothers with children at Bulli Beach (pictured) near Wollongong
His frightening confession and string of violent offences, which includes choking a nurse while jailed, were all considered by Justice Ierace.
After SLD was last released in September 2023, he was back behind bars after just a few weeks later when he was caught approaching women with young children at Bulli Beach in Wollongong, NSW asking them for a date.
He was also found to be accessing pornography online and psychologists warned he had become obsessed with losing his virginity after growing up in jail.
SLD had been adopted at the age of four by a family in Point Clare on the Central Coast, but his murder trial heard he remained ‘disturbed’ despite his new home.
At age 13 years and 10 months, he snatched Courtney from her bed in the middle of the night and stabbed her through the heart before leaving her body in long grass 300m from her home.
He was caught after it was noticed that he had gone missing from his home on the morning the three year old vanished.
He initially lied about the crime, leading police on a wild goose chase before later admitting he killed her.
Psychiatric assessments of the teen determined he’d never become a functioning social adult.
He was sentenced to 20 years behind bars in August 2002 and was first released in September 2023.
Justice Mark Ierace refused the states application for detention reverting to his original supervision order
On October 25 2023, SLD went to Bulli Beach near Wollongong with a supervisor and was spotted by an off-duty prison officer who noticed his electronic monitoring anklet.
The officer witnessed SLD approach a woman with a young girl, and then approach another mother washing an infant at the beach showers.
Both women picked up their children and walked away from SLD.
He then entered the Bulli Beach Café and struck up a conversation with a woman feeding an infant.
He allegedly said to the woman: ‘I just got out of jail. Do you come here often?’, followed by: ‘I’ve only been here twice.’
Police came and arrested SLD, who told Wollongong Local Court the next day the encounters were ‘incidental’.
SLD was found guilty of one count of failing to comply with an extended supervision order, which barred him from having contact with children.
He had also tried to access the internet, dating sites and encrypted chat apps.
