THE man who raped and killed Wagga teenager Sally Jones in 1987 – Ken Cannon – will spend an additional two and a half years in jail for a 1986 sexual assault.
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Cannon, 55, was sentenced in Sydney on Thursday morning by District Court judge Deborah Payne for the November 8, 1986, knifepoint rape of a 15-year-old girl in Bolton Park.
Already behind bars until June 28, 2016, for the rape of a third girl in 1990, Cannon was given a head sentence of seven years to begin from December 29, 2015, with a non-parole period of three years expiring December 28, 2018.
It was flagged last December that Cannon could be sentenced to as little as two years for the 1986 crime because he needed to be sentenced according to the laws at the time, which prescribed a maximum sentence of 10 years for the offence.
Sentences for offences committed now can be as long as 20 years.
Cannon was charged early last year with the 1986 attack after a police cold case team linked his DNA with material taken from the underpants of his victim at the time.
He pleaded guilty to sexual assault last August.
The attack at knifepoint by Cannon was the first in time.
Two victims escaped with their lives, but one – 18-year-old Sally Jones – was stabbed to death by Cannon in April, 1987, and her body dragged into the Murrumbidgee River at the Wiradjuri Reserve.
The third victim was attacked in May, 1990, and Cannon was sentenced for that crime in 1991 after being jailed for Miss Jones’s murder.
NOTE: It was earlier reported that Cannon would receive no extra jail time because his non-parole period for the 1990 rape would not expire until August, 2020. This was correct at the time of sentencing. However, Cannon subsequently had the sentence reduced on appeal
