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.
No body. No weapon. So it’s a circumstantial case and it can be put together using ‘links in a chain’ or ‘strands in a cable’ – but only if those links or strands are sound. They ain’t.
And then there’s the evidence repeatedly given by the look out girl in the years since the trial, directly against what she told the jury. She fessed up.
You’d think this would require serious attention to giving her an immunity from prosecution. You’d be wrong. Seems that it has been decided to write her off, even sink her, thereby giving me continued good luck.
Now those who decide things in Tasmania seem to have decided to let both the look out girl and the wrongfully convicted woman rot while I roam around.
If you think that’s a tad unfair then only an independent Commission of Inquiry can expose all the twists, turns and knots in this story.
If you support such an Inquiry then let the Chief Justice know. Do that by pasting the following short note into the Supreme Court’s website contact form as follows:
Go to https://www.supremecourt.tas.gov.au/contact-us/
Dear Chief Justice,
Please advise the Premier and the Attorney General that the interests of justice, along with community confidence in our police, our prosecution service, and the courts, warrant an immediate independent Commission of Inquiry into the conviction of Sue Neill-Fraser for the murder of her partner Bob Chappell.
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For those listeners with an interest in advocacy skills in courts/tribunals please explore the 20 episode podcast 'Advocacy in Court - preparation and performance'.
Available on Kindle is an inexpensive book by the same title. The author is Hugh Selby. Also on Kindle by Hugh are 'Liar Games' and ' The Bone Cancer'.
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