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.
There’s good evidence from unrelated people of what dinghies were around that day and earlier, near the Four Winds, like the one that we used to get out to the yacht and get back from it.
The police ignored that evidence.
Our look out was in a bad way so I grabbed a red jacket from the yacht and put it over her. When we got back to shore the jacket was left on a fence where the police found it.
Then they lost it for a couple of days in the police car park. When they found it they forgot about losing it. It was years after the trial when they fessed up.
But our luck continues because, as of 2021, the police have refused to retest it using today’s best tests and taking account of extra DNA profiles in their data base. Maybe they’re afraid of what they’ll find.
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