About 8pm on 17 April 1997 Constable Carty and other police had reason to speak to a number of people in the street at Fairfield while carrying out foot patrols. Later the Constable and other police then off duty attended a local hotel the Cambridge Tavern. About 2.10am as he was leaving the hotel Constable Carty was set upon by a number of offenders including some of those he had spoken to earlier and he was stabbed to death. Senior Constable Michelle Auld who had gone to his assistance was also seriously assaulted in the cowardly attack.
The Constable was born in 1971 and was sworn in as a Probationary Constable in August 1994. At the time of his death he was stationed at Fairfield.
David Carty 2017 Memorial
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NSW Police remember Constable David Carty โ Fairfield
NSW Police Force has held a memorial service to commemorate the life and service of Constable David Carty, who died 15 years ago.
Cst Carty was stabbed to death as he left a licensed premises on Alan Street, Fairfield in the early hours of Friday 18 April 1997, after having a drink with colleagues after a late shift.
At 10am today (Wednesday 18 April 2012), colleagues and friends gathered at Fairfield Police Station, for a memorial service, on the 15th anniversary of his death.
The Minister for Police and Emergency Services, Michael Gallacher, NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione, South West Metropolitan Region Commander, Assistant Commissioner Frank Mennilli, Fairfield Local Area Commander, Superintendent Peter Lennon, former colleagues, local police officers, local members of Parliament and members of the Fairfield community also attended.
Senior Catholic Police Chaplain, Father Paul O'Donoghue, led the blessing for serving police and emergency service officers.
Constable Carty's family also held a memorial service on the family property in Parkes where Lachlan Local Area Commander, Robert Ryan, and local police officers paid their respects.
Supt Lennon said while it was painful to recall the circumstances of Constable Carty's death, it was important for his memory to be honoured.
"David was a young man with a great future, personally and professionally," Supt Lennon said.
"He had committed himself to protecting his community and paid the ultimate price.
"Every day, officers confront dangers as they perform their duties, and the memory of a departed colleague reminds us that a safe community can come at a high price for officers and their families," said Supt Lennon.
Constable Carty joined the NSW Police Force on 20 February 1994, attesting as a probationary constable on 19 August 1994 and began working at Liverpool.
On 20 November 1994, Constable Carty was transferred to Fairfield and confirmed to the rank of constable on 19 August 1995.
Before joining the NSW Police, David Carty worked on the family farm and showed as much dedication and independence there as he did as a constable.
His relatively short experience in the NSW Police Force showed him to be an exemplary police officer.
- NSW Police Force Facebook page, April 17, 2012
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David Carty - R v Adam - Murder of police officer
In 1997, Constable David Carty approached a man in Fairfield warning him against using bad language. Later the same night, when he was off duty, Carty was confronted in the Cambridge Tavern car park by the same man accompanied by gang of his friends.
Carty was fatally stabbed and violently punched and kicked as he lay dying on the ground. Another police officer who had accompanied Carty, Constable Michelle Auld, raised the alarm and tried to beat off the attackers. Carty died in the ambulance on the way to hospital.
Two brothers, Gilbert and Richard Adam, were both placed on trial on 10 October 1998. Richard Adam was found guilty of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm to David Carty, while Gilbert Adam was found guilty of murder.
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When the court overlooks a family's sentence of grief
The consequences for those who killed Constable David Carty in a fit of insane, unprovoked violence in a Fairfield car park in 1997 have been so trivial as to make a joke of every police officer's job.
The latest in a series of taxpayer-funded legal manoeuvres comes from Edward Esho, 30, convicted in 2000 of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm on Carty.
Last month he managed to get the Supreme Court to overturn a decision of the State Parole Authority to refuse him early release, on technical grounds. Last week the Parole Authority ordered he be released by this Thursday.
On April 18, 1997, Carty, 25, was having a drink with colleagues at the Cambridge Tavern in Fairfield after finishing his shift at midnight. He was the last police officer to leave, having seen a female colleague to her car, when he was surrounded and attacked by a group of men he had earlier reprimanded for using obscene language.
Constable Carty was stabbed in the heart and kicked and stomped on as he lay dying on the ground.
A post-mortem found he sustained injuries including "an incised wound at the front of the head . . . bruising to the top of the head consistent with having been caused by kicking; an incised wound above the eyebrow caused by a sharp object such as a knife; curved abrasion on the left side of the head; bruising and an abrasion above the left ear, described by the doctor as a combination of various forms of blunt trauma consistent with having been caused by a circular object such as a beer bottle, applied with significant force; further abrasions in the same area, caused by blunt trauma, consistent with kicking or possibly punching; an incised wound to the left of the face, caused by a sharp edged probably straight object that had the effect of cutting off part of the earlobe; two further incised wounds to the left ear . . . bruising and abrasion on the left cheek; a fairly deep incised wound to the left side of the nose, causing the nose to be cut through, . . . a 'scalping' wound to the back of the head, removing the surface of the skin and a tear, possibly caused by a sharp machete; and a shallow wound at the top of the back, possibly caused by a knife or broken glass, or sharp edged machete."
Esho was one of those animals who attacked Carty and in 2000 he was sentenced to six years and eight months in jail for his role.
Dawood Odishou, also known as Gilbert Adam, 33, was jailed for 21 to 28 years for murdering Carty.
His brother Richard Adam, 31, was initially found guilty of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm but the Court of Criminal Appeal overturned the verdict. Both brothers were members of an ethnic Assyrian gang and Iraqi army deserters who came to Australia as refugees in 1992, where they remained unemployed, eventually bringing 11 family members to join them in Fairfield.
Three other men were acquitted of any charges. Thamier Sako was jailed for five years.
The court heard that a few hours before he was murdered, at about 8pm, Constable Carty and a colleague were on foot patrol in Fairfield when Esho yelled across the street: "F---ing pig".
Carty, a well-brought-up country boy, reprimanded him: "It's a public street and there's ladies here. Do you usually speak like that in front of women?"
Carty's reprimand that night was regarded as an affront by Esho who, according to testimony by a witness in court, confronted the officer later in the car park of the Cambridge Tavern and said: "Why you tell me to shut up?"
Esho was refused parole by the state Parole Authority last year but NSW Supreme Court Justice Stephen Rothman quashed that decision last month.
"There is no basis upon which the Parole Authority could possibly have found [Esho] was not 'able to adapt to normal lawful community life'," he said in the judgement.
The Parole Authority had erred by not having an interpreter present when it considered Esho's case, despite his request for one.
Last week the Parole Authority had to meet again, and this time ordered Esho be released from jail by Thursday when he may be eligible to apply for compensation.
At the parole hearing last September, Constable Carty's mother, Lorraine, fought tears as she read a victim-impact statement.
"Were you proud?" she said to Esho.
"The first time we entered the court . . . we were faced with Dave's killers sitting only metres away. These pathetic excuses for human beings . . . sitting there in their suits, clean shaven, as though they were respectable people.
"They were the ones who had taken my son's life . . . thinking they are going to be OK, smiling, gloating."
You might ask what is the point of having a parole authority if its decision can be second-guessed by criminals with enough legal clout.
As Lorraine Carty said: "How do we appeal our sentence of grief?"
- By Miranda Devine, smh.com.au, May 7, 2006
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NSW: Murdered policeman scalped, mutilated, court told
SYDNEY, May 8 AAP - Although fatally stabbed, murdered Sydney policeman David Carty was partially scalped, his nose and ear were sliced off and he was continuously beaten,
a court was told today.
It would be the crown's duty to prove the "essential elements or ingredients" of the murderous assault involving at least seven men, prosecutor Greg Smith told the Supreme
Court jury.
A large number of witnesses to the incident were likely to be called to give evidence in what would be a lengthy trial, he said.
Many of them would also offer varying accounts, in much the same way spectators might observe an all-in brawl during a football match, he said.
A seven-woman and five-man panel will decide the fate of five men accused of involvement in the 1997 killing.
Assyrian-born Edward Esho is the only one of the group charged with the murder.
James George, Thamir Matti Sako, Amier Yaco and Eshmail Orhaum Esha are all accused of maliciously inflicted grievous bodily harm, while two other men have already faced
a separate trial over the slaying.
Constable Carty was stabbed dead in the car park of the western Sydney Cambridge Tavern, just blocks away from Fairfield Police Station, in the early hours of April 17, 1997.
He had been off duty and partly dressed in civilian clothes at the time, enjoying a drink with colleagues.
As he left the hotel, he was pushed in the chest by one of the accused, with the incident witnessed by a Constable Michelle Auld, Mr Smith said today.
Within seconds, Const Carty had been surrounded by a group of men of Middle Eastern appearance.
In the melee, Const Auld had seen blood spurt from the stricken officer's chest and "a look of horror on his face", Mr Smith told the jury.
The prolonged assault that followed had lasted for between four and five minutes, he said.
Sako had somehow been stabbed in the throat during the affray by someone other than Const Carty, who had been unarmed, Mr Smith said.
A witness to the attack had then run back inside the hotel to tell three more Assyrian men one of their "brothers" had been hurt outside, he said.
The second group rushed to the scene and began punching, kicking and jumping on Const Carty as he lay prone, Mr Smith said.
Local bakery worker Trevor Davies would give evidence that the assault had involved six to eight men, becoming "more and more frenzied", he said.
Although Const Carty was still breathing when police arrived, it was apparent he was bleeding to death from a stab wound to the heart, he said.
But he had also sustained a series of other non-fatal injuries.
"Half his left ear had been cut off, his nose had been cut off ...," Mr Smith said.
" ... there was a big semi-circular scar on his forehead (and) he had been partly scalped."
The trial continues before Justice Allan Abadee tomorrow, with the court proceeding to Fairfield to view the murder scene.
- AAP General News (Australia), August 5, 2000
The Constable was born in 1971 and was sworn in as a Probationary Constable in August 1994. At the time of his death he was stationed at Fairfield.
David Carty 2017 Memorial
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NSW Police remember Constable David Carty โ Fairfield
NSW Police Force has held a memorial service to commemorate the life and service of Constable David Carty, who died 15 years ago.
Cst Carty was stabbed to death as he left a licensed premises on Alan Street, Fairfield in the early hours of Friday 18 April 1997, after having a drink with colleagues after a late shift.
At 10am today (Wednesday 18 April 2012), colleagues and friends gathered at Fairfield Police Station, for a memorial service, on the 15th anniversary of his death.
The Minister for Police and Emergency Services, Michael Gallacher, NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione, South West Metropolitan Region Commander, Assistant Commissioner Frank Mennilli, Fairfield Local Area Commander, Superintendent Peter Lennon, former colleagues, local police officers, local members of Parliament and members of the Fairfield community also attended.
Senior Catholic Police Chaplain, Father Paul O'Donoghue, led the blessing for serving police and emergency service officers.
Constable Carty's family also held a memorial service on the family property in Parkes where Lachlan Local Area Commander, Robert Ryan, and local police officers paid their respects.
Supt Lennon said while it was painful to recall the circumstances of Constable Carty's death, it was important for his memory to be honoured.
"David was a young man with a great future, personally and professionally," Supt Lennon said.
"He had committed himself to protecting his community and paid the ultimate price.
"Every day, officers confront dangers as they perform their duties, and the memory of a departed colleague reminds us that a safe community can come at a high price for officers and their families," said Supt Lennon.
Constable Carty joined the NSW Police Force on 20 February 1994, attesting as a probationary constable on 19 August 1994 and began working at Liverpool.
On 20 November 1994, Constable Carty was transferred to Fairfield and confirmed to the rank of constable on 19 August 1995.
Before joining the NSW Police, David Carty worked on the family farm and showed as much dedication and independence there as he did as a constable.
His relatively short experience in the NSW Police Force showed him to be an exemplary police officer.
- NSW Police Force Facebook page, April 17, 2012
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David Carty - R v Adam - Murder of police officer
In 1997, Constable David Carty approached a man in Fairfield warning him against using bad language. Later the same night, when he was off duty, Carty was confronted in the Cambridge Tavern car park by the same man accompanied by gang of his friends.
Carty was fatally stabbed and violently punched and kicked as he lay dying on the ground. Another police officer who had accompanied Carty, Constable Michelle Auld, raised the alarm and tried to beat off the attackers. Carty died in the ambulance on the way to hospital.
Two brothers, Gilbert and Richard Adam, were both placed on trial on 10 October 1998. Richard Adam was found guilty of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm to David Carty, while Gilbert Adam was found guilty of murder.
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When the court overlooks a family's sentence of grief
The consequences for those who killed Constable David Carty in a fit of insane, unprovoked violence in a Fairfield car park in 1997 have been so trivial as to make a joke of every police officer's job.
The latest in a series of taxpayer-funded legal manoeuvres comes from Edward Esho, 30, convicted in 2000 of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm on Carty.
Last month he managed to get the Supreme Court to overturn a decision of the State Parole Authority to refuse him early release, on technical grounds. Last week the Parole Authority ordered he be released by this Thursday.
On April 18, 1997, Carty, 25, was having a drink with colleagues at the Cambridge Tavern in Fairfield after finishing his shift at midnight. He was the last police officer to leave, having seen a female colleague to her car, when he was surrounded and attacked by a group of men he had earlier reprimanded for using obscene language.
Constable Carty was stabbed in the heart and kicked and stomped on as he lay dying on the ground.
A post-mortem found he sustained injuries including "an incised wound at the front of the head . . . bruising to the top of the head consistent with having been caused by kicking; an incised wound above the eyebrow caused by a sharp object such as a knife; curved abrasion on the left side of the head; bruising and an abrasion above the left ear, described by the doctor as a combination of various forms of blunt trauma consistent with having been caused by a circular object such as a beer bottle, applied with significant force; further abrasions in the same area, caused by blunt trauma, consistent with kicking or possibly punching; an incised wound to the left of the face, caused by a sharp edged probably straight object that had the effect of cutting off part of the earlobe; two further incised wounds to the left ear . . . bruising and abrasion on the left cheek; a fairly deep incised wound to the left side of the nose, causing the nose to be cut through, . . . a 'scalping' wound to the back of the head, removing the surface of the skin and a tear, possibly caused by a sharp machete; and a shallow wound at the top of the back, possibly caused by a knife or broken glass, or sharp edged machete."
Esho was one of those animals who attacked Carty and in 2000 he was sentenced to six years and eight months in jail for his role.
Dawood Odishou, also known as Gilbert Adam, 33, was jailed for 21 to 28 years for murdering Carty.
His brother Richard Adam, 31, was initially found guilty of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm but the Court of Criminal Appeal overturned the verdict. Both brothers were members of an ethnic Assyrian gang and Iraqi army deserters who came to Australia as refugees in 1992, where they remained unemployed, eventually bringing 11 family members to join them in Fairfield.
Three other men were acquitted of any charges. Thamier Sako was jailed for five years.
The court heard that a few hours before he was murdered, at about 8pm, Constable Carty and a colleague were on foot patrol in Fairfield when Esho yelled across the street: "F---ing pig".
Carty, a well-brought-up country boy, reprimanded him: "It's a public street and there's ladies here. Do you usually speak like that in front of women?"
Carty's reprimand that night was regarded as an affront by Esho who, according to testimony by a witness in court, confronted the officer later in the car park of the Cambridge Tavern and said: "Why you tell me to shut up?"
Esho was refused parole by the state Parole Authority last year but NSW Supreme Court Justice Stephen Rothman quashed that decision last month.
"There is no basis upon which the Parole Authority could possibly have found [Esho] was not 'able to adapt to normal lawful community life'," he said in the judgement.
The Parole Authority had erred by not having an interpreter present when it considered Esho's case, despite his request for one.
Last week the Parole Authority had to meet again, and this time ordered Esho be released from jail by Thursday when he may be eligible to apply for compensation.
At the parole hearing last September, Constable Carty's mother, Lorraine, fought tears as she read a victim-impact statement.
"Were you proud?" she said to Esho.
"The first time we entered the court . . . we were faced with Dave's killers sitting only metres away. These pathetic excuses for human beings . . . sitting there in their suits, clean shaven, as though they were respectable people.
"They were the ones who had taken my son's life . . . thinking they are going to be OK, smiling, gloating."
You might ask what is the point of having a parole authority if its decision can be second-guessed by criminals with enough legal clout.
As Lorraine Carty said: "How do we appeal our sentence of grief?"
- By Miranda Devine, smh.com.au, May 7, 2006
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NSW: Murdered policeman scalped, mutilated, court told
SYDNEY, May 8 AAP - Although fatally stabbed, murdered Sydney policeman David Carty was partially scalped, his nose and ear were sliced off and he was continuously beaten,
a court was told today.
It would be the crown's duty to prove the "essential elements or ingredients" of the murderous assault involving at least seven men, prosecutor Greg Smith told the Supreme
Court jury.
A large number of witnesses to the incident were likely to be called to give evidence in what would be a lengthy trial, he said.
Many of them would also offer varying accounts, in much the same way spectators might observe an all-in brawl during a football match, he said.
A seven-woman and five-man panel will decide the fate of five men accused of involvement in the 1997 killing.
Assyrian-born Edward Esho is the only one of the group charged with the murder.
James George, Thamir Matti Sako, Amier Yaco and Eshmail Orhaum Esha are all accused of maliciously inflicted grievous bodily harm, while two other men have already faced
a separate trial over the slaying.
Constable Carty was stabbed dead in the car park of the western Sydney Cambridge Tavern, just blocks away from Fairfield Police Station, in the early hours of April 17, 1997.
He had been off duty and partly dressed in civilian clothes at the time, enjoying a drink with colleagues.
As he left the hotel, he was pushed in the chest by one of the accused, with the incident witnessed by a Constable Michelle Auld, Mr Smith said today.
Within seconds, Const Carty had been surrounded by a group of men of Middle Eastern appearance.
In the melee, Const Auld had seen blood spurt from the stricken officer's chest and "a look of horror on his face", Mr Smith told the jury.
The prolonged assault that followed had lasted for between four and five minutes, he said.
Sako had somehow been stabbed in the throat during the affray by someone other than Const Carty, who had been unarmed, Mr Smith said.
A witness to the attack had then run back inside the hotel to tell three more Assyrian men one of their "brothers" had been hurt outside, he said.
The second group rushed to the scene and began punching, kicking and jumping on Const Carty as he lay prone, Mr Smith said.
Local bakery worker Trevor Davies would give evidence that the assault had involved six to eight men, becoming "more and more frenzied", he said.
Although Const Carty was still breathing when police arrived, it was apparent he was bleeding to death from a stab wound to the heart, he said.
But he had also sustained a series of other non-fatal injuries.
"Half his left ear had been cut off, his nose had been cut off ...," Mr Smith said.
" ... there was a big semi-circular scar on his forehead (and) he had been partly scalped."
The trial continues before Justice Allan Abadee tomorrow, with the court proceeding to Fairfield to view the murder scene.
- AAP General News (Australia), August 5, 2000
About 8pm on 17 April 1997 Constable Carty and other police had reason to speak to a number of people in the street at Fairfield while carrying out foot patrols. Later the Constable and other police then off duty attended a local hotel the Cambridge Tavern. About 2.10am as he was leaving the hotel Constable Carty was set upon by a number of offenders including some of those he had spoken to earlier and he was stabbed to death. Senior Constable Michelle Auld who had gone to his assistance was also seriously assaulted in the cowardly attack.
The Constable was born in 1971 and was sworn in as a Probationary Constable in August 1994. At the time of his death he was stationed at Fairfield.
David Carty 2017 Memorial
-----
NSW Police remember Constable David Carty โ Fairfield
NSW Police Force has held a memorial service to commemorate the life and service of Constable David Carty, who died 15 years ago.
Cst Carty was stabbed to death as he left a licensed premises on Alan Street, Fairfield in the early hours of Friday 18 April 1997, after having a drink with colleagues after a late shift.
At 10am today (Wednesday 18 April 2012), colleagues and friends gathered at Fairfield Police Station, for a memorial service, on the 15th anniversary of his death.
The Minister for Police and Emergency Services, Michael Gallacher, NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione, South West Metropolitan Region Commander, Assistant Commissioner Frank Mennilli, Fairfield Local Area Commander, Superintendent Peter Lennon, former colleagues, local police officers, local members of Parliament and members of the Fairfield community also attended.
Senior Catholic Police Chaplain, Father Paul O'Donoghue, led the blessing for serving police and emergency service officers.
Constable Carty's family also held a memorial service on the family property in Parkes where Lachlan Local Area Commander, Robert Ryan, and local police officers paid their respects.
Supt Lennon said while it was painful to recall the circumstances of Constable Carty's death, it was important for his memory to be honoured.
"David was a young man with a great future, personally and professionally," Supt Lennon said.
"He had committed himself to protecting his community and paid the ultimate price.
"Every day, officers confront dangers as they perform their duties, and the memory of a departed colleague reminds us that a safe community can come at a high price for officers and their families," said Supt Lennon.
Constable Carty joined the NSW Police Force on 20 February 1994, attesting as a probationary constable on 19 August 1994 and began working at Liverpool.
On 20 November 1994, Constable Carty was transferred to Fairfield and confirmed to the rank of constable on 19 August 1995.
Before joining the NSW Police, David Carty worked on the family farm and showed as much dedication and independence there as he did as a constable.
His relatively short experience in the NSW Police Force showed him to be an exemplary police officer.
- NSW Police Force Facebook page, April 17, 2012
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David Carty - R v Adam - Murder of police officer
In 1997, Constable David Carty approached a man in Fairfield warning him against using bad language. Later the same night, when he was off duty, Carty was confronted in the Cambridge Tavern car park by the same man accompanied by gang of his friends.
Carty was fatally stabbed and violently punched and kicked as he lay dying on the ground. Another police officer who had accompanied Carty, Constable Michelle Auld, raised the alarm and tried to beat off the attackers. Carty died in the ambulance on the way to hospital.
Two brothers, Gilbert and Richard Adam, were both placed on trial on 10 October 1998. Richard Adam was found guilty of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm to David Carty, while Gilbert Adam was found guilty of murder.
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When the court overlooks a family's sentence of grief
The consequences for those who killed Constable David Carty in a fit of insane, unprovoked violence in a Fairfield car park in 1997 have been so trivial as to make a joke of every police officer's job.
The latest in a series of taxpayer-funded legal manoeuvres comes from Edward Esho, 30, convicted in 2000 of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm on Carty.
Last month he managed to get the Supreme Court to overturn a decision of the State Parole Authority to refuse him early release, on technical grounds. Last week the Parole Authority ordered he be released by this Thursday.
On April 18, 1997, Carty, 25, was having a drink with colleagues at the Cambridge Tavern in Fairfield after finishing his shift at midnight. He was the last police officer to leave, having seen a female colleague to her car, when he was surrounded and attacked by a group of men he had earlier reprimanded for using obscene language.
Constable Carty was stabbed in the heart and kicked and stomped on as he lay dying on the ground.
A post-mortem found he sustained injuries including "an incised wound at the front of the head . . . bruising to the top of the head consistent with having been caused by kicking; an incised wound above the eyebrow caused by a sharp object such as a knife; curved abrasion on the left side of the head; bruising and an abrasion above the left ear, described by the doctor as a combination of various forms of blunt trauma consistent with having been caused by a circular object such as a beer bottle, applied with significant force; further abrasions in the same area, caused by blunt trauma, consistent with kicking or possibly punching; an incised wound to the left of the face, caused by a sharp edged probably straight object that had the effect of cutting off part of the earlobe; two further incised wounds to the left ear . . . bruising and abrasion on the left cheek; a fairly deep incised wound to the left side of the nose, causing the nose to be cut through, . . . a 'scalping' wound to the back of the head, removing the surface of the skin and a tear, possibly caused by a sharp machete; and a shallow wound at the top of the back, possibly caused by a knife or broken glass, or sharp edged machete."
Esho was one of those animals who attacked Carty and in 2000 he was sentenced to six years and eight months in jail for his role.
Dawood Odishou, also known as Gilbert Adam, 33, was jailed for 21 to 28 years for murdering Carty.
His brother Richard Adam, 31, was initially found guilty of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm but the Court of Criminal Appeal overturned the verdict. Both brothers were members of an ethnic Assyrian gang and Iraqi army deserters who came to Australia as refugees in 1992, where they remained unemployed, eventually bringing 11 family members to join them in Fairfield.
Three other men were acquitted of any charges. Thamier Sako was jailed for five years.
The court heard that a few hours before he was murdered, at about 8pm, Constable Carty and a colleague were on foot patrol in Fairfield when Esho yelled across the street: "F---ing pig".
Carty, a well-brought-up country boy, reprimanded him: "It's a public street and there's ladies here. Do you usually speak like that in front of women?"
Carty's reprimand that night was regarded as an affront by Esho who, according to testimony by a witness in court, confronted the officer later in the car park of the Cambridge Tavern and said: "Why you tell me to shut up?"
Esho was refused parole by the state Parole Authority last year but NSW Supreme Court Justice Stephen Rothman quashed that decision last month.
"There is no basis upon which the Parole Authority could possibly have found [Esho] was not 'able to adapt to normal lawful community life'," he said in the judgement.
The Parole Authority had erred by not having an interpreter present when it considered Esho's case, despite his request for one.
Last week the Parole Authority had to meet again, and this time ordered Esho be released from jail by Thursday when he may be eligible to apply for compensation.
At the parole hearing last September, Constable Carty's mother, Lorraine, fought tears as she read a victim-impact statement.
"Were you proud?" she said to Esho.
"The first time we entered the court . . . we were faced with Dave's killers sitting only metres away. These pathetic excuses for human beings . . . sitting there in their suits, clean shaven, as though they were respectable people.
"They were the ones who had taken my son's life . . . thinking they are going to be OK, smiling, gloating."
You might ask what is the point of having a parole authority if its decision can be second-guessed by criminals with enough legal clout.
As Lorraine Carty said: "How do we appeal our sentence of grief?"
- By Miranda Devine, smh.com.au, May 7, 2006
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NSW: Murdered policeman scalped, mutilated, court told
SYDNEY, May 8 AAP - Although fatally stabbed, murdered Sydney policeman David Carty was partially scalped, his nose and ear were sliced off and he was continuously beaten,
a court was told today.
It would be the crown's duty to prove the "essential elements or ingredients" of the murderous assault involving at least seven men, prosecutor Greg Smith told the Supreme
Court jury.
A large number of witnesses to the incident were likely to be called to give evidence in what would be a lengthy trial, he said.
Many of them would also offer varying accounts, in much the same way spectators might observe an all-in brawl during a football match, he said.
A seven-woman and five-man panel will decide the fate of five men accused of involvement in the 1997 killing.
Assyrian-born Edward Esho is the only one of the group charged with the murder.
James George, Thamir Matti Sako, Amier Yaco and Eshmail Orhaum Esha are all accused of maliciously inflicted grievous bodily harm, while two other men have already faced
a separate trial over the slaying.
Constable Carty was stabbed dead in the car park of the western Sydney Cambridge Tavern, just blocks away from Fairfield Police Station, in the early hours of April 17, 1997.
He had been off duty and partly dressed in civilian clothes at the time, enjoying a drink with colleagues.
As he left the hotel, he was pushed in the chest by one of the accused, with the incident witnessed by a Constable Michelle Auld, Mr Smith said today.
Within seconds, Const Carty had been surrounded by a group of men of Middle Eastern appearance.
In the melee, Const Auld had seen blood spurt from the stricken officer's chest and "a look of horror on his face", Mr Smith told the jury.
The prolonged assault that followed had lasted for between four and five minutes, he said.
Sako had somehow been stabbed in the throat during the affray by someone other than Const Carty, who had been unarmed, Mr Smith said.
A witness to the attack had then run back inside the hotel to tell three more Assyrian men one of their "brothers" had been hurt outside, he said.
The second group rushed to the scene and began punching, kicking and jumping on Const Carty as he lay prone, Mr Smith said.
Local bakery worker Trevor Davies would give evidence that the assault had involved six to eight men, becoming "more and more frenzied", he said.
Although Const Carty was still breathing when police arrived, it was apparent he was bleeding to death from a stab wound to the heart, he said.
But he had also sustained a series of other non-fatal injuries.
"Half his left ear had been cut off, his nose had been cut off ...," Mr Smith said.
" ... there was a big semi-circular scar on his forehead (and) he had been partly scalped."
The trial continues before Justice Allan Abadee tomorrow, with the court proceeding to Fairfield to view the murder scene.
- AAP General News (Australia), August 5, 2000
The Constable was born in 1971 and was sworn in as a Probationary Constable in August 1994. At the time of his death he was stationed at Fairfield.
David Carty 2017 Memorial
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NSW Police remember Constable David Carty โ Fairfield
NSW Police Force has held a memorial service to commemorate the life and service of Constable David Carty, who died 15 years ago.
Cst Carty was stabbed to death as he left a licensed premises on Alan Street, Fairfield in the early hours of Friday 18 April 1997, after having a drink with colleagues after a late shift.
At 10am today (Wednesday 18 April 2012), colleagues and friends gathered at Fairfield Police Station, for a memorial service, on the 15th anniversary of his death.
The Minister for Police and Emergency Services, Michael Gallacher, NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione, South West Metropolitan Region Commander, Assistant Commissioner Frank Mennilli, Fairfield Local Area Commander, Superintendent Peter Lennon, former colleagues, local police officers, local members of Parliament and members of the Fairfield community also attended.
Senior Catholic Police Chaplain, Father Paul O'Donoghue, led the blessing for serving police and emergency service officers.
Constable Carty's family also held a memorial service on the family property in Parkes where Lachlan Local Area Commander, Robert Ryan, and local police officers paid their respects.
Supt Lennon said while it was painful to recall the circumstances of Constable Carty's death, it was important for his memory to be honoured.
"David was a young man with a great future, personally and professionally," Supt Lennon said.
"He had committed himself to protecting his community and paid the ultimate price.
"Every day, officers confront dangers as they perform their duties, and the memory of a departed colleague reminds us that a safe community can come at a high price for officers and their families," said Supt Lennon.
Constable Carty joined the NSW Police Force on 20 February 1994, attesting as a probationary constable on 19 August 1994 and began working at Liverpool.
On 20 November 1994, Constable Carty was transferred to Fairfield and confirmed to the rank of constable on 19 August 1995.
Before joining the NSW Police, David Carty worked on the family farm and showed as much dedication and independence there as he did as a constable.
His relatively short experience in the NSW Police Force showed him to be an exemplary police officer.
- NSW Police Force Facebook page, April 17, 2012
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David Carty - R v Adam - Murder of police officer
In 1997, Constable David Carty approached a man in Fairfield warning him against using bad language. Later the same night, when he was off duty, Carty was confronted in the Cambridge Tavern car park by the same man accompanied by gang of his friends.
Carty was fatally stabbed and violently punched and kicked as he lay dying on the ground. Another police officer who had accompanied Carty, Constable Michelle Auld, raised the alarm and tried to beat off the attackers. Carty died in the ambulance on the way to hospital.
Two brothers, Gilbert and Richard Adam, were both placed on trial on 10 October 1998. Richard Adam was found guilty of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm to David Carty, while Gilbert Adam was found guilty of murder.
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When the court overlooks a family's sentence of grief
The consequences for those who killed Constable David Carty in a fit of insane, unprovoked violence in a Fairfield car park in 1997 have been so trivial as to make a joke of every police officer's job.
The latest in a series of taxpayer-funded legal manoeuvres comes from Edward Esho, 30, convicted in 2000 of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm on Carty.
Last month he managed to get the Supreme Court to overturn a decision of the State Parole Authority to refuse him early release, on technical grounds. Last week the Parole Authority ordered he be released by this Thursday.
On April 18, 1997, Carty, 25, was having a drink with colleagues at the Cambridge Tavern in Fairfield after finishing his shift at midnight. He was the last police officer to leave, having seen a female colleague to her car, when he was surrounded and attacked by a group of men he had earlier reprimanded for using obscene language.
Constable Carty was stabbed in the heart and kicked and stomped on as he lay dying on the ground.
A post-mortem found he sustained injuries including "an incised wound at the front of the head . . . bruising to the top of the head consistent with having been caused by kicking; an incised wound above the eyebrow caused by a sharp object such as a knife; curved abrasion on the left side of the head; bruising and an abrasion above the left ear, described by the doctor as a combination of various forms of blunt trauma consistent with having been caused by a circular object such as a beer bottle, applied with significant force; further abrasions in the same area, caused by blunt trauma, consistent with kicking or possibly punching; an incised wound to the left of the face, caused by a sharp edged probably straight object that had the effect of cutting off part of the earlobe; two further incised wounds to the left ear . . . bruising and abrasion on the left cheek; a fairly deep incised wound to the left side of the nose, causing the nose to be cut through, . . . a 'scalping' wound to the back of the head, removing the surface of the skin and a tear, possibly caused by a sharp machete; and a shallow wound at the top of the back, possibly caused by a knife or broken glass, or sharp edged machete."
Esho was one of those animals who attacked Carty and in 2000 he was sentenced to six years and eight months in jail for his role.
Dawood Odishou, also known as Gilbert Adam, 33, was jailed for 21 to 28 years for murdering Carty.
His brother Richard Adam, 31, was initially found guilty of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm but the Court of Criminal Appeal overturned the verdict. Both brothers were members of an ethnic Assyrian gang and Iraqi army deserters who came to Australia as refugees in 1992, where they remained unemployed, eventually bringing 11 family members to join them in Fairfield.
Three other men were acquitted of any charges. Thamier Sako was jailed for five years.
The court heard that a few hours before he was murdered, at about 8pm, Constable Carty and a colleague were on foot patrol in Fairfield when Esho yelled across the street: "F---ing pig".
Carty, a well-brought-up country boy, reprimanded him: "It's a public street and there's ladies here. Do you usually speak like that in front of women?"
Carty's reprimand that night was regarded as an affront by Esho who, according to testimony by a witness in court, confronted the officer later in the car park of the Cambridge Tavern and said: "Why you tell me to shut up?"
Esho was refused parole by the state Parole Authority last year but NSW Supreme Court Justice Stephen Rothman quashed that decision last month.
"There is no basis upon which the Parole Authority could possibly have found [Esho] was not 'able to adapt to normal lawful community life'," he said in the judgement.
The Parole Authority had erred by not having an interpreter present when it considered Esho's case, despite his request for one.
Last week the Parole Authority had to meet again, and this time ordered Esho be released from jail by Thursday when he may be eligible to apply for compensation.
At the parole hearing last September, Constable Carty's mother, Lorraine, fought tears as she read a victim-impact statement.
"Were you proud?" she said to Esho.
"The first time we entered the court . . . we were faced with Dave's killers sitting only metres away. These pathetic excuses for human beings . . . sitting there in their suits, clean shaven, as though they were respectable people.
"They were the ones who had taken my son's life . . . thinking they are going to be OK, smiling, gloating."
You might ask what is the point of having a parole authority if its decision can be second-guessed by criminals with enough legal clout.
As Lorraine Carty said: "How do we appeal our sentence of grief?"
- By Miranda Devine, smh.com.au, May 7, 2006
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NSW: Murdered policeman scalped, mutilated, court told
SYDNEY, May 8 AAP - Although fatally stabbed, murdered Sydney policeman David Carty was partially scalped, his nose and ear were sliced off and he was continuously beaten,
a court was told today.
It would be the crown's duty to prove the "essential elements or ingredients" of the murderous assault involving at least seven men, prosecutor Greg Smith told the Supreme
Court jury.
A large number of witnesses to the incident were likely to be called to give evidence in what would be a lengthy trial, he said.
Many of them would also offer varying accounts, in much the same way spectators might observe an all-in brawl during a football match, he said.
A seven-woman and five-man panel will decide the fate of five men accused of involvement in the 1997 killing.
Assyrian-born Edward Esho is the only one of the group charged with the murder.
James George, Thamir Matti Sako, Amier Yaco and Eshmail Orhaum Esha are all accused of maliciously inflicted grievous bodily harm, while two other men have already faced
a separate trial over the slaying.
Constable Carty was stabbed dead in the car park of the western Sydney Cambridge Tavern, just blocks away from Fairfield Police Station, in the early hours of April 17, 1997.
He had been off duty and partly dressed in civilian clothes at the time, enjoying a drink with colleagues.
As he left the hotel, he was pushed in the chest by one of the accused, with the incident witnessed by a Constable Michelle Auld, Mr Smith said today.
Within seconds, Const Carty had been surrounded by a group of men of Middle Eastern appearance.
In the melee, Const Auld had seen blood spurt from the stricken officer's chest and "a look of horror on his face", Mr Smith told the jury.
The prolonged assault that followed had lasted for between four and five minutes, he said.
Sako had somehow been stabbed in the throat during the affray by someone other than Const Carty, who had been unarmed, Mr Smith said.
A witness to the attack had then run back inside the hotel to tell three more Assyrian men one of their "brothers" had been hurt outside, he said.
The second group rushed to the scene and began punching, kicking and jumping on Const Carty as he lay prone, Mr Smith said.
Local bakery worker Trevor Davies would give evidence that the assault had involved six to eight men, becoming "more and more frenzied", he said.
Although Const Carty was still breathing when police arrived, it was apparent he was bleeding to death from a stab wound to the heart, he said.
But he had also sustained a series of other non-fatal injuries.
"Half his left ear had been cut off, his nose had been cut off ...," Mr Smith said.
" ... there was a big semi-circular scar on his forehead (and) he had been partly scalped."
The trial continues before Justice Allan Abadee tomorrow, with the court proceeding to Fairfield to view the murder scene.
- AAP General News (Australia), August 5, 2000
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