Crump and Baker led from court after sentencing

In the early years of their incarceration, Crump and Baker lived quite happily as man and wife at Long Bay Jail's notorious Katingal section. When a television camera crew was allowed through Katingal in the late 1970s, the public saw how seemingly easy the two were doing their time. After the ensuing outcry, Crump and Baker were separated.

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It's unlikely they will receive parole. All anyone has to do is to look at Taylor's sentencing recommendation: "If in the future some application is made that you be released on the grounds of clemency or of mercy, then I would venture to suggest to those who are entrusted with the task of determining whether you are entitled to it or not, that the measure of your entitlement to either should be the clemency and mercy you extended to this woman [Virginia Morse] when she begged you for her life."

Crump and Baker are now in separate maximum-security prisons in New South Wales.

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