Bundaberg's Burnett River traffic bridge was the only witness to this crime?
Lawyers for the man convicted of murdering British backpacker Caroline Stuttle in Bundaberg in south-east Queensland have lodged an appeal against his conviction.
Ian Douglas Previte, 32, was given a life sentence last month after he was found guilty of forcing the 19-year-old off a traffic bridge in April 2002.
Legal Aid lodged the appeal against the conviction for robbery and murder on behalf of Previte.
It is expected to be heard before the Court of Appeal in Brisbane.
EDITORIAL:
How much weight should be given on the evidence of prison authorities and prison informers who assist police, to obtain alleged evidence in unscrupulous ways, to secure a conviction once a person has been sent to prison pending a hearing to determine their guilt? ZIP!
How much weight should be given on the evidence of the Bridge? DNA? Fingerprints?
Was there any "prime" evidence on the bridge connecting Douglas Previte or just circumstantial evidence that the police cleverly fabricated?
What about general stereotypical smears like he must be guilty because police say he's a known drug addict.
People perceive that drug addicts are desperate and therefore guilty of a crime if they happened to be in the area.
But Previte if he were a drug addict certainly would not be on his own. Does that mean that know drug addicts are more likely to be accused of desperate acts of violence because of their habit? Or because they're in the wrong place at the wrong time?
I will leave that up to the appeal judges although if that was left up to the jury in the original trial! ZZZZ they were on the nod or they just weren't given all of the facts or information they may have required for them to make and informed judgement.
Did Ms Stuttle jump?
Of course her family brought over for the trial may think that someone else murdered her opposed to the possibility she may have also committed suicide. But did the Stuttle's get the chance to even think about the possibility before being urged on by the Australian authorities and the corporate media that she had been murdered?
It was reported that finding the murderer would open the door to getting the tourists confidents back again?
But simply blaming a person, any person, opposed to proving it "beyond any reasonable doubt" is simply not good enough considering it will cost the accused if found guilty their life!
So let's not be too hasty now to please the tourist industry they can get over the smear on Australian tourism for the sake of the conviction of perhaps another innocent person in this country!
Corporate media had its hands in it as well. If you're accused of a backpacker murder you don't get any support but in fact the opposite. Sensationally dragged down into the dirt because those dogs have their hands in tourism. Makes it very difficult to beat murder when the odds are all stacked against you!
By Just Us 11 November 04
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Tourist Industry Crime and Trial By Media Coincidences
MILAT WAS FRAMED FOR TOURISM $$$$$ AND THE WINNER IS? NOT IVAN MILAT! The murders were headlines overseas. The State government's public relations machine swung into action. An unprecedented $500,000 reward was offered for the heads of the perpetrators. (Commonsense says there was more than one assailant). Head of the International Olympic Committee, Juan Samaranch, was questioning whether Australia was a safe place to visit.
Ivan Milat loses conviction appeal
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Day set aside for Falconio forensic evidence
More than a day has been set aside in the case of the man accused of murdering British backpacker Peter Falconio to hear evidence from a Northern Territory forensic scientist. Yesterday the Darwin Magistrates Court heard from mechanics and friends of the defendant Bradley John Murdoch.
Mr Bradley Murdoch to go on trial next year!
The alleged man is not the alleged Falconio killer in my book. He's alleged to have committed a crime but the Faloconio mystery remains a secret to be unlocked by time itself and more interestingly may never be unlocked at all.
Falconio magistrate closes court
THE hearing into the murder of British tourist Peter Falconio has been closed to the public. Magistrate Alasdair McGregor has closed the court for part of the testimony of Mr Falconio's girlfriend Joanne Lees.
Ch/9 News? Or Ch/9's Department of Public Prosecutions?
Bradley Murdoch committal, lawyer calls for fair hearing
The lawyer of the man accused of murdering British backpacker Peter Falconio has spoken to the media in Darwin.
Peter Beattie nominated as Australian of the year: Howard
Bradley Murdoch the man alleged to have murdered English tourist Peter Falconio who has been acquitted of rape and abduction charges in the South Australian District Court.
Tourist dollar drives set-up for crime
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Supreme Court rejects Nine appeal
CHANNEL Nine lost a Supreme Court appeal today to have a suppression order on details of the case of missing backpacker Peter Falconio lifted. The Full Bench of the NT Supreme Court today ruled Magistrate Alasdair McGregor had the power to make the order banning from publication some details of the case.
Falconio magistrate closes court
THE hearing into the murder of British tourist Peter Falconio has been closed to the public. Magistrate Alasdair McGregor has closed the court for part of the testimony of Mr Falconio's girlfriend Joanne Lees.
Innocent until proven guilty? Not in Australia's outback!
There is no way that Bradley John Murdoch can get a fair trial in the Northern Territory. The entire jury pool is already contaminated, the general public have accepted the verdict of the Northern Territory News and the NT Police State has turned on the cone of silence. Maybe some of the reporters might want to ask Director of Public Prosecutions Rex Wilde QC just how he is going to secure a conviction when a body has not been found. Surely the NT bureaucracy learnt from the Lindy Chamberlain case that it is not a good idea to jail someone for murder when you haven't got a body. Maybe they have the same people working on the case. The NT Police forensic team certainly do.
Taken "A Dingo Took My Baby!"
They were the words that Lindy Chamberlain had screamed out into the blackness of the cold night in a camping ground close to Ayers Rock, Central Australia, on the night of August 17, when she discovered that her nearly ten-week-old baby, Azaria had been taken by a dingo.
Man Says He Shot Dingo That Snatched Baby SYDNEY, Australia (July 5) - A distraught mother's scream 24 years ago that a dingo snatched her baby from a camp site near Ayers Rock in the Australian Outback ignited one of Australia's most enduring mysteries. An elderly man's claim that he retrieved the infant's bloodied body from the jaws of the wild dog has revived the case and - if true - could finally lead to the discovery of Azaria Chamberlain's body.
Australia to see the light on tourism
A total of $120 million has been earmarked for the campaign's international marketing, which tops up the Australian Tourist Commission's annual budget of $90 million. The inbound and domestic tourism industry contributes $70 billion to the economy and employs 500,000.
Ten reports $76.9 million profit
The Ten television network has reported a full-year profit of $76.9 million. Even if it were down by half on the previous year they're still greedy self-interested people who care little about the real damage done, not just in Australia but the world. That profit is obviously on top of wages and expenses yet they're still greedy enough to turn the news upside down to suit the Howard government's investment in advertising.
