James Joseph COUNSEL
James Joseph COUNSEL APM
AKA Jim COUNSEL, Jimmy COUNSEL
* Nickname: Gentleman Jim, The Tip
Late of ?
A good Chap
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“possible” relation in ‘the job‘: ?
NSW Police Training Centre – Redfern – Class # 104
New South Wales Police Force
Regd. # 11561
Rank: Commenced Training at Redfern Police Academy on Monday ? ? ? ( aged 28 years, ? months, ? days )
Probationary Constable – appointed 16 August 1965 ( aged 28 years, 6 months, 30 days )
Constable – appointed 16 August 1966
Constable 1st Class – appointed ? ? ?
Detective – appointed ? ? 1972 – Detectives Training Course 1/1972 ( YES )
Senior Constable – appointed 16 August 1974
Leading Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ?
Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed 4 April 1981
Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed 10 March 1987
Sergeant 1st Class – appointed ? ? ?
Inspector – appointed ? ? ?
Chief Inspector – appointed ? ? ?
Final Rank: = Detective Inspector
Stations: ? , Bankstown ( 19 Division )( Detectives )( 1960s – 1970s ), Revesby ( 19 Division )( 1972 ), Kingsgrove ( 31 Division ), ?, Homicide Squad ( C.I.B. )( 1980s ), ?
Service ( From Training Date ) period: From ? ? ? to ? ? ? = ? years, ? months, ? days Service
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Time in Retirement from Police: ? years, ? months, ? days
Awards: National Medal – granted 15 April 1981 ( Det SenCon )
1st Clasp to National Medal – granted 28 May 1992 ( Det Insp )
Australian Police Medal ( A.P.M. ) – granted 13 June 1994 ( Det SenCon )
Born: Sunday 17 January 1937
Died on: 8 March 2025 during the early A.M.
Age: 88 years, 1 months, 19 days
Organ Donor: No – Age restrictive
Cause: ?
Event location: ? Nursing Home,
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Adam Shand
9 March 2025
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This was published 8 years ago
Robert Adams jailed for 20 years for 1983 murder of nurse Mary Wallace
By Melanie Kembrey
For more than three decades Robert John Adams kept a dark secret. While his victim’s parents went to their graves haunted by not knowing what happened to their daughter, Adams went on to marry, have children and live in the suburbs.
But in the NSW Supreme Court on Friday, nurse Mary Louise Wallace‘s two sisters and friends got to see her killer sentenced to a maximum of 20 years’ imprisonment.
Adams, 64, who has maintained his innocence, did not appear to react when the sentence was delivered. He will be eligible for parole in 2031.
In delivering his sentence, Justice Richard Button said it was regrettably a forlorn hope that Adams would ever reveal where he had put the body of Ms Wallace so she could receive a proper burial.
Ms Wallace, 33, a well-liked theatre sister who worked at Hunters Hill Hospital, met Adams, then 31, at the Alpine Inn on the lower north shore in the early hours of a Saturday in September 1983.
The last time she was seen was getting into Adams’ car after he offered her a lift home from the wine bar after falsely claiming that he was a police officer.
Adams choked Ms Wallace to death while attempting to rape her, then stored her body in his car before trying to remove all traces of her.
“This offence against a young woman in the prime of her life, simply for the sexual gratification of the offender, cannot be assessed as anything other than extremely grave,” Justice Button said.
Adams had, the court heard, “a long standing tendency to strangle young women if they rejected his sexual advances”.
In the years before he murdered Ms Wallace, Adams had served a jail sentence for rape and three women gave harrowing evidence during his trial that he had choked and raped them.
Ms Wallace’s body was never found, despite extensive searches of bushland and a lengthy police investigation.
After the sentence was delivered, Ms Wallace’s sister Anne Fraser said it had taken 33 years for Adams to pay for his crimes.
“That’s as long as Mary lived,” Ms Fraser said.
“We wish he would say where she is; that would be something for us but this is as good as we can get.”
Adams, who had already served a jail term for rape, was a prime suspect when Ms Wallace was discovered missing. But it was new forensic testing linking strands of hair found in the boot of his car that triggered police to charge him with murder in December 2013.
Adams did not deviate from the story he had told police during his first interview. He claimed that he had sexual contact with Ms Wallace and fell asleep in the driver’s seat of his car. When he woke, he said, Ms Wallace was nowhere to be seen and he assumed she left and made her own way home.
The Crown had submitted that it would be “difficult to find a worse category of murder of a young woman” and that a sentence of life imprisonment would “not be inappropriate”.
The defence argued that Adams had demonstrated a “completed process of rehabilitation” and a non-existent criminal record for the past 10 years.
Justice Button said Adams had shown “not the slightest sign” of remorse and may have thought that he had literally got away with murder before his arrest.
* Story behind any Nickname:
Gentleman;
The Tip
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Cal
9 March 2025
Updated 10 March 2025 with additional photos and stories.