A wrongful conviction is a blot on our legal system. Sadly, exposing and correcting that blot is a long, long process.
The killing took place on 26 January 2009 (Australia Day - a national holiday) on a moored yacht. The murder trial was in the second half of 2010.
There was no body, no murder weapon, a poor attempt to suggest a motive: a wholly circumstantial case.
Efforts to expose the fallacies in the police investigation began in 2012. Every one of those efforts failed. The victim's wife spent around 13 years in gaol and is now on parole.
This podcast series is a short, easy to follow, expose of how a legal system has been corrupted, not by money in this instance, but by a way of thinking characterised by ineptitude, inflexibility, laziness, and the arrogance of power.
Those seeking more information can find it at https://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/legislative-council/tabled-papers/2021-50th-parliament/LCTP14_31_08_2021.pdf
Near four years after the prisoner's most recent appeal was dismissed new information has come to light: recent advances in DNA science, and material reluctantly produced by police in response to Freedom of Information requests. This information upends key elements in the police/prosecution case.
Those with an interest in sound police investigative methods, the duties of prosecutors, how today's science can expose yesterday's errors, and why one should never lose hope, should look for announcements late in 2025.
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A wrongful conviction is a blot on our legal system. Sadly, exposing and correcting that blot is a long, long process.
The killing took place on 26 January 2009 (Australia Day - a national holiday) on a moored yacht. The murder trial was in the second half of 2010.
There was no body, no murder weapon, a poor attempt to suggest a motive: a wholly circumstantial case.
Efforts to expose the fallacies in the police investigation began in 2012. Every one of those efforts failed. The victim's wife spent around 13 years in gaol and is now on parole.
This podcast series is a short, easy to follow, expose of how a legal system has been corrupted, not by money in this instance, but by a way of thinking characterised by ineptitude, inflexibility, laziness, and the arrogance of power.
Those seeking more information can find it at https://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/legislative-council/tabled-papers/2021-50th-parliament/LCTP14_31_08_2021.pdf
Near four years after the prisoner's most recent appeal was dismissed new information has come to light: recent advances in DNA science, and material reluctantly produced by police in response to Freedom of Information requests. This information upends key elements in the police/prosecution case.
Those with an interest in sound police investigative methods, the duties of prosecutors, how today's science can expose yesterday's errors, and why one should never lose hope, should look for announcements late in 2025.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
If there’s no dinghy tied to the yacht then the yacht’s empty right?
We were into a bit of harmless pilfering and we was disturbed cos we didn’t know he was aboard. Anyways he tried to stop us, got hit, and went over the side with bubbles and all. Course we didn't have no plan to attack him. He attacked us.
We tried to sink it to get rid of any evidence.
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