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Gavin Owen Samer is the main suspect in the 1994 disappearance of model turned escort Revelle Balmain. He is pictured in 2018<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A chef with no history of violence was ‘unfortunate’ to be publicly linked to the disappearance of a prostitute and the death of his flatmate in a house fire.<\/p>\n

Gavin Owen Samer was named two decades ago as a suspect in the 1994 presumed murder of 22-year-old Sydney model and escort Revelle Balmain.<\/p>\n

He had also shared an apartment with pensioner Rosa Rosenberg, 52, before she was killed in an explosion in their former home in January.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Samer has never been charged in relation to Ms Balmain’s disappearance but was convicted of assaulting Ms Rosenberg late last year.<\/p>\n

That conviction was overturned in the New South Wales District Court on Wednesday by a judge who found there was insufficient evidence Samer had physically harmed Ms Rosenberg.<\/p>\n

Judge Siobhan Herbert also removed<\/a> a 12-month community corrections order and $500 fine imposed on Samer for intimidating Ms Rosenberg but let his conviction for that offence stand.<\/p>\n

Judge Herbert heard Samer had already been punished by media coverage of his association with the two dead women, which was entirely coincidental.<\/p>\n

‘Mr Samer has an unfortunate history in that he was a person of interest in relation to the presumed death of a woman on the 5th of November, 1994, which resulted in considerable media attention,’ Judge Herbert said.<\/p>\n

That attention was renewed when he was convicted in September last year of having assaulted and intimidated Ms Ronsenberg in their Bondi flat, and by the fatal fire four months later.<\/p>\n

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Revelle Balmain, (pictured) 22, was last seen at Kingsford in Sydney’s south east on November 5, 1994.Gavin Samer, who denies any role in Ms Balmain’s disappearance, has had a conviction for assaulting his onetime flatmate Rosalyn Rosenberg overturned<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Rosalyn Rosenberg told writer John Dale about her experiences with Gavin Samer, who had assaulted her in the public housing unit they once shared.Four months later Ms Rosenberg died of injuries sustained in an explosion inside her home. She is pictured in that unit<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Ms Roseberg – known to friends as Rosa – had subsequently told author John Dale that Samer was a ‘psychopath’ who kept a knife under his pillow, the court heard.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Samer had also been accused of committing sex offences against Ms Rosenberg but those charges were withdrawn when she was killed in the explosion at her home.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘As a result of the media attention Mr Samer himself has suffered mental health issues and was admitted for treatment to the mental health unit of Gold Coast Hospital,’ Judge Herbert found.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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