Evil cult leader dies before facing justice
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A former NSW cult leader who was charged with monstrously covering up the horrific killing of a helpless two-year-old girl by burning her body in a barrel and sieving her ashes nearly four decades ago will never face justice after he died.
Alexander Wilon, the leader of the Ministry of God sect, was due to face Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court last week; however, the court heard that he had died, bringing the long-running saga over the death of Tillie Craig to a sad and unsatisfying conclusion.
In June this year, the court heard he was terminally ill after a major stroke and was unfit to face trial.
The court was told he had suffered brain damage, lung disease and amnesia, with prosecutors and a judge agreeing he was unfit to be tried.
Wilon had been charged over his alleged attempts to cover up the death of Tillie at her mother’s hands on his cult’s property near Oberon in central NSW in July 1987.
He was not charged over her killing, and earlier this year, Tillie’s mother Ellen Craig was sentenced to a maximum of nine years after she pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
She admitted to beating her two-year-old with a piece of irrigation pipe until she stopped breathing at the cult’s Porters Retreat property.
“To say that the circumstances of Tillie’s death are tragic would be a gross understatement,” Supreme Court Justice Natalie Adams said when she sentenced Craig earlier this year.
The court was told that children in the cult were required to do chores and Craig beat her daughter to death because she was unhappy with the two-year-old’s sweeping.
A witness saw her beat the girl on the legs and back and continued to beat her even when she began crying and lying face down on the ground.
Wilon, who also went by the name Alfio Nicolosi, is alleged to have played a role in covering up Tillie’s death, which remained under a shroud of secrecy for decades before Craig was extradited from New Zealand to face court.
He was not at the property at the time, but when he returned he was told “Tillie’s dead”.
During Craig’s sentence proceedings, the court was told that Wilon attempted to pray to resurrect her before the decision was made to burn her body in a barrel.
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