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.
I don’t how this got through. It’s so crazy. This well-meaning dude stops for a drink of water on the riverside and sees yachts and their dinghies. He describes in some detail a dinghy where he saw some old guy on board its yacht. Those details are all written down by a copper. No way he was looking at the Four Winds or its dinghy. We know that cos the dinghy he describes is so different. But the police then sign him up to their redoing of his account so he is seeing the Four Winds and its dinghy. Why’d they do that?
Then it gets to the trial and one of the coppers sends a message to the prosecution about the original notes of what he told the police on the phone. The message isn’t given to the Prosecutor and it isn’t given to the Defence team who accept the fabricated redo as good evidence. Who wants to say that the devil doesn’t score big time?
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