WATCHING the news, Amanda Galler was appalled as she heard the details of how Matthew Welsh had brutally murdered a teenager. What she never imagined was that years later she would be preparing to walk down the aisle with the very same man. 7 Amanda Galler fell for convicted murderer Matthew Welsh Credit: Supplied 7 After writing to him for 17 years, she was left heartbroken when he ghosted her upon his release Credit: Supplied However, while Amanda may have been able to forgive Welsh of his crimes, was unable to forgive him a second time when, after waiting 17 years for his release, she never heard from him again.
In 2003, Welsh, then 19, had dominated a gang who tortured 14-year-old Adam Morrell for hours while high on a cocktail of drink and drugs and afterwards he was strangled and decapitated. Welsh was sentenced to life, serving a minimum of 20 years for murder, while his then girlfriend Sarah Morris, 17, got four years for assault and friend Nathan Barnett, 27, was detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act after admitting manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. Office administrator Amanda, 46, says that, like the rest of the world she had been horrified by Welsh’s sick crimes.
SICK CRIMES “I was gobsmacked and wondered how anyone could be so evil,” she says. “I was horrified and couldn’t understand what made people like this tick. I was only six years older than the so-called ringleader.
“The story was on every news channel and in .
