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As the battered body of school teacher Stephanie Scott lay on the floor of a darkroom, her killer drove home to have a cheese sandwich and a cup of coffee at his Riverina home two kilometres away. After finishing his lunch, cleaner Vincent Stanford then drove back to Leeton High School and began to clean the small room where he had murdered and raped the year-old who was just days away from marrying. Stanford later told police that as her body remained in the boot of the car, he washed her clothes before hanging them out to dry on his washing line in the backyard. Vincent Stanford leaves Griffith Courthouse after his sentencing hearing on Tuesday. Credit: Peter Rae. He would later discard most of her clothes and belongings in bins around Leeton, but told police he kept her red bra because, "maybe I wanted a souvenir". These calm and considered actions of Stanford, and his emotionless, almost relaxed, confession to police days later, were at odds with the "cold-blooded, merciless, sexually motivated killing" he had just carried out. One witness told police that he remembered seeing Stanford with scratches on his face and recalled him giggling and smiling when the subject of Ms Scott's whereabouts was raised. Later that day when police called by Stanford's house to question him, he yelled out to them as they were leaving, "Hey — Good luck with the search".
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Stephanie Scott murder: Who is her killer Vincent Stanford? Vincent Stanford, the man sentenced to life in jail for the murder of Leeton schoolteacher Stephanie Scott, had a history of violent and murderous thoughts towards everyone around him. The year-old told a forensic psychologist he first thought of killing when he was only seven or eight years old. Stanford was born in Australia and raised here by his parents Anika and Steve until they moved him, his twin brother Marcus and older brother Luke to the Netherlands when he was three years old. Soon after the family moved, Steve Stanford left them and returned to Australia, and had no further contact with his children.
As the battered body of school teacher Stephanie Scott lay on the floor of a darkroom, her killer drove home to have a cheese sandwich and a cup of coffee at his home, two kilometres away. After finishing his lunch, cleaner Vincent Stanford then drove back to Leeton High School in New South Wales, Australia, and began to clean the small room where he had murdered and raped the year-old who was just days away from marrying. When he was finished he drove the body of Scott back to his house on Maiden Avenue at Leeton in her red Mazda 3. Stanford later told police that as her body remained in the boot of the car, he washed her clothes before hanging them out to dry on his washing line in the backyard. He would later discard most of her clothes and belongings in bins around Leeton, but told police he kept her red bra because, "maybe I wanted a souvenir". These calm and considered actions of Stanford, and his emotionless, almost relaxed, confession to police days later, were at odds with the "cold-blooded, merciless, sexually motivated killing" he had just carried out. One witness told police that he remembered seeing Stanford with scratches on his face and recalled him giggling and smiling when the subject of Scott's whereabouts was raised. Later that day when police called by Stanford's house to question him, he yelled out to them as they were leaving, "Hey - Good luck with the search". The details of what Stanford did and the way he acted in the days after Scott's murder emerged at his sentencing hearing at the NSW Supreme Court at Griffith on Tuesday.
