'Brutal and cruel' body-in-bag murderer William Matheson wins sentence cut

By Stephanie Gardiner
Updated May 24 2015 - 2:13pm, first published 1:16pm
William Matheson, a cellist, was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend.
William Matheson, a cellist, was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend.

On the evening of November 24, 2003, William Matheson strangled his former girlfriend, put her body in a cricket bag and dumped it in the car park of a unit block in Sydney's eastern suburbs.

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