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March 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Leonard John Fraser with detectives after his arrest in 2001. Picture: Bob Fenney
Source: The Courier-Mail
SERIAL killer Leonard John Fraser received sub-standard medical care while in prison, a coroner has found.
Queensland Coroner Michael Barnes, in an eight-page written decision, found Fraser died of natural causes – by way of a heart attack – in a secure hospital ward at Brisbane’s Princess Alexandra Hospital on January 1, 2007.
However, Mr Barnes said he was concerned about the level of medical care given Fraser while an inmate at the Wolston Correctional Centre, at Wacol, west of Brisbane, in the month before his death.
Fraser, who was 55 when he died, was serving four indefinite life sentences for killing three Rockhampton women and nine-year-old schoolgirl Keyra Steinhardt when he died from an “acute myocardial infarction due to coronary thrombosis and coronary atherosclerosis”.
“I am satisfied that the care afforded to Mr Fraser by staff at the PAH in the week prior to his death was adequate and appropriate,” Mr Barnes said.
“(But) I am concerned that the medical care afforded to Mr Fraser at WCC was not of the expected standard in some aspects.
“Indeed, one is left to wonder whether the medical practitioners who saw Mr Fraser in the month before his death were even made aware that he had previously suffered (heart attacks).”
Mr Barnes said it could not be shown that any “shortcomings” in the medical treatment of Fraser had in any way contributed to his death.
“It is evident … from the information provided to me in this inquest … that significant changes have occurred in the provision of health care to prisoners (since Fraser’s death),” he said.
Mr Barnes’ findings put a full stop on the life of one of Queensland’s most notorious violent sexual predators – who terrorised Rockhampton in the 1990s until his arrest for the murder of Keyra Steinhardt in 1999.
While Fraser made no death-bed confessions in days before his death, he had previously claimed to have murdered up to five other women during his criminal career, which spanned 30 years and two states.
He made the claims to a prisoner-turned-police informant and a homicide detective during a 2001 investigation by Taskforce Alex into the disappearances of four Rockhampton women.
At the time of the investigation, Fraser was serving an indefinite life sentence for Keyra’s murder of Keyra.
Fraser claimed he murdered a hitchhiker by the name of Sandy Lawrence in an abandoned crocodile zoo in north Queensland in 1982.
Fraser also spoke of the murder of his 17-year-old Aboriginal girlfriend, claiming she had her throat cut in the backstreets of Kings Cross in the early 1970s.
The taskforce recorded Fraser on a listening device saying he murdered two female hitchhikers in separate incidents in NSW in the 1970s.
In 2003, he became Queensland’s first convicted serial killer when a Brisbane Supreme Court jury found him guilty of murdering Rockhampton women Beverley Leggo, 36, and Sylvia Benedetti, 19, and the manslaughter of Julie Turner, 39.
He also had been charged with murdering teenager Natasha Ryan, who later made headlines when she was found alive during Fraser’s murder trial.
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