Van Krevel 'terrorised shoppers'

By Alicia Wood and Emma Shaw
Updated November 6 2012 - 12:46am, first published August 29 2010 - 11:28am
Belinda Van Krevel
Belinda Van Krevel

Belinda Van Krevel, who served six years in jail for soliciting her boyfriend to murder her father with a tomahawk in his Albion Park home, has faced court again.Van Krevel, 30, of Parramatta, stood before Parramatta Bail Court on Friday charged with attempting to steal a handbag, and attempting to cause actual bodily harm to a person.Police allege Van Krevel, who is two months pregnant, and boyfriend Marshall Hunter Gould, 37, terrorised shoppers at Parramatta on Friday, assaulting a shopkeeper and bystanders. Van Krevel was denied bail and will return to court on September 1.In 2001 Van Krevel was jailed for convincing boyfriend Keith Schreiber to murder 48-year-old Jack Van Krevel in his Centenary Rd home. Van Krevel was sleeping in the next room with her daughter during the killing, which was described as "remarkably brutal" by NSW Supreme Court Justice Graham Barr.After the killing, Van Krevel walked to Albion Park Police Station with her daughter and reported to police that she had heard noises and there was blood in the house.The attack came just 10 days after Van Krevel's brother, Mark Valera, was convicted of the murders of former State MP and Wollongong Lord Mayor Frank Arkell and shopkeeper David O'Hearn in 1998.Mr Arkell was killed in his Reserve St, West Wollongong home. He had been repeatedly struck with an ashtray and a desk lamp, and Rotary lapel pins had been poked in one of his eyes and his cheek.The attack came weeks after Dapto shopkeeper David O'Hearn's mutilated and dismembered body was found in his Albion Park Rail townhouse. His body parts were found scattered around the house and the word Satan was written on a mirror with the victim's blood.Valera, who was 19 when he committed the murders, was convicted of the crimes in 2000 and given a life sentence.

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