Eric James Murray, 66, sentenced to life in prison for murdering June Quinton in Brisbane in 1996 Eric Murray (left) during a visit with police to the crime scene in West End. Picture: Glenn Barnes Source: News Limited A "MONSTROUS" murderer and "sex slave" rapist is likely to die in a Queensland jail after being found guilty of the savage 1996 slaying of a 60-year-old Brisbane woman. A Brisbane Supreme Court jury deliberated just four hours before finding Eric James Murray, 66, guilty of murdering June Quinton by bashing her to death with a metal bar and dumping her body in long grass at West End, in Brisbane's inner-city between January 27-31. It is the second jury empanelled to decide Murray's fate after a jury was discharged on Monday after failing to reach a verdict after almost three days of deliberations. What the jury did not know, and The Courier-Mail can now reveal, is that at the time of the murder, Murray had been on parole for the horrendous 1981 NSW murder of a man in front of his children. Also, after fleeing Brisbane following the slaying of Ms Quinton, Murray went onto kidnap a 17-year-old girl in the Northern Territory in 2003, and subjected her to unspeakable acts while keeping her as his "sex slave" for three days. Murray received a 24-year jail sentence for that crime and was likely to die in a NT prison cell had he not confessed to killing Ms Quinton. Justice John Byrne, within seconds of the jury delivering its verdict, took the rare step of suggesting it may be in their best interest to stick around for Murray's sentencing. "I think you might find (Murray's) criminal history instructive," Justice Byrne said. Prosecutor Danny Boyle then revealed Murray's life of violent crime began in 1964 and that his litany of sadistic and brutal offences included murder, extreme violence, kidnapping, false imprisonment and rape. Justice Byrne sentenced Murray to life imprisonment, saying: "You have a monstrous criminal history ... (and) you murdered a woman (Ms Quinton) you barely knew." June Quinton was murdered in 1996. You are a serious danger to the community. You are sentenced to life in prison. Murray turned belligerent after Justice Byrne left the court and tried to remonstrate over the decision with a handful of people in court. The Brisbane jury was told Ms Quinton's murder was likely never to have been solved had Murray not made a jailhouse confession - his motivation being to get a prison transfer to a jail closer to his family. Murray - who earlier had tried and failed to win a transfer from the Alice Springs Correctional Centre to Queensland via an application to former Queensland Corrective Services Minister Judy Spence - expected the move would mean his family could visit him more frequently. On August 18, 1981, Murray murdered lecturer David Morrison-Howie, 32, in Bathurst, 200km north west of Sydney, in front of the victim's wife and two children, aged 19-months and 3-years-old. Murray stole a 12-gauge shotgun to gun down Mr Morrison-Howie after a daring prison escape from the Kickconnell Afforestation Camp. He served 14-years of a 16-year prison sentence for those attacks and was on parole when he beat Ms Quinton to death in retaliation for her "being rude" to him as they shared a meal provided by an inner-Brisbane charity - St Vincent de Paul. Prosecutors said Murray bashed Ms Quinton to death, wrapped a t-shirt around her head and dumped her body in a vacant block near the Pauls Milk Factory at West End. Murray then fled Brisbane and Ms Quinton's remains were not found until factory workers sought the source of a foul odour. Murray remained on the run for almost eight years but again captured national media attention when he abducted a NT teenager and held her as a sex slave for at least three days in 2003. Eric Murray during a visit with police to the crime scene in West End. Picture: Glenn Barnes The NT courts were told Murray repeatedly raped and threatened to kill the teenager during her harrowing ordeal. It was expected Murray would have died in a NT prison had he not confessed to killing Ms Quinton. During a March 2010 prison interview with Queensland detectives Murray was recorded saying: "It doesn't bother me if it (Ms Quinton's murder) gets solved or not. I was going to let it go. Some kind of people keep that stuff (to the grave). But, when pressed by police if he was making a false confession to gain a prison transfer his reply was adamant. "Is it the case Eric that you didn't do it ... and you're using it (the confession) to get to Queensland?" a detective asked him. Murray: "I tell you now I killed her. I'm giving you something that happened.