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to be satisfied that the case, which includes such evidence, is a reasonable one to present in support of the ground. In practical terms, in the circumstances of this case, I would need to be satisfied that there is a reasonable possibility that the Court of
Criminal Appeal would accept the said evidence as credible and providing a trustworthy basis for fact-finding. Clearly, I could not be so satisfied if the evidence was so lacking in credibility that there was no reasonable possibility of that conclusion being reached by the Court of Criminal Appeal. Otherwise, it does not appear to me that the question of credibility falls for my consideration on this application. In this case, I am satisfied that the applicant has a reasonable case to present to the Court in support of the ground of appeal, and that it is in the interests of justice for leave to be granted. The fresh and compelling evidence to which this decision refers is the evidence of the out of court representations of Ms Vass. Insofar as it has been submitted that the evidence is not reliable, I am satisfied that it would be reasonably open to the Court of Criminal Appeal to accept such evidence as credible and providing a trustworthy basis for fact finding. I reiterate that I am not making a positive determination to that effect.
383:, she could not remember which. She said she did not remember whether it was daylight or dark. After the telephone call from King, the content of which had unnerved her, she decided to collect the car and drive it home so that it would be available to her to drive to the yacht if the deceased called her. She decided not to telephone him because having regard to the lateness of the hour, he might be asleep. So she walked to the car at or near Marieville Esplanade. However, on arriving there she found she had farm keys and not the car keys and had to walk back to Allison Street to collect them and return once again to the car. She then drove along to the rowing sheds, which was the only place from which the boat could be seen properly. She got out, walked down to the beach and saw a fire going and homeless people there. She could not see the boat because it was pitch black. She felt a lot better for having gone there. She then drove home.
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on the yacht at or about the time of the death of the deceased and was responsible for it, or had personal knowledge of facts material to a determination of who was responsible. The other was that she was responsible for, or a party to, a break-in on the yacht on 10 January 2009, which the appellant claimed had taken place. The Court noted that Gunson SC had, at trial, the opportunity to ask Vass questions that directly related to those two possibilities when he cross-examined her, but that the only question of that kind asked of her was: "Are you quite sure you've never been on board this boat?" The Court of
Criminal Appeal rejected the argument that a miscarriage of justice had occurred as a result of the failure to recall Vass.
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emotions. In my view Ms Neill-Fraser would not have attacked Mr
Chappell unless she intended to kill him, had a substantial reason for killing him, was confident that she would succeed in killing him, and had a strategy to avoid punishment. This was not a killing that occurred because of a loss of self-control. It was not a crime of passion. It was an intentional and purposeful killing. I am satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that Ms Neill-Fraser deliberately killed Mr Chappell for a reason, and that that reason had to do with her financial betterment.
711:, in which she admitted detailed knowledge of events on the yacht apparently leading to the death of Chappell. The airing of the interview was followed by an application to reopen Neill-Fraser's case, which was granted, with a further affidavit from Vass being read into evidence. The affidavit deposed that Vass was present on the yacht with two identified male companions. She witnessed at least one of the males assault Chappell. She recalled seeing a lot of blood, and could not recall leaving the yacht or what happened after the assault. Justice
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Crescent, Goodwood where there were some yachts on slips and an industrial estate. She was cross-examined again. She said she did not have a twin sister and gave her reason for not being interviewed by police. She said she was quite sure she had never been on the yacht. Her evidence concluded with testimony that she had never been to the industrial premises called Cleanlift Marine at Negara Crescent at Goodwood, and most definitely was not there in late January or early February 2009.
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months imprisonment, without parole for 6 months. Karen Keefe was charged with two charges of perverting the course of justice and one of corrupting a witness. Police alleged that she provided false evidence in an affidavit as part of Neill-Fraser's appeal, agreeing to accept nearly $ 100,000 in return for an understanding another witness would give false evidence. Thompson was later discharged from all proceedings against him, as a result of a pretrial ruling by
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at all, and alleged that she had been continually harassed since 2016 to testify and exonerate Neill-Fraser. The recanting of her evidence drew an admission from
Richter that “We are in a situation in which we agree that the evidence of Vass cannot support the motion of fresh and compelling evidence
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pm. It was argued that the telephone call from Richard King unnerved her because he had wanted to speak to the deceased and instead learned that he was not available. As a result, it was argued, the appellant went to the boat to dispose of the body and clean up incriminating evidence. It was pointed
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in January and February 2009, and she did not remember going to an area of Goodwood near Negara Crescent where there was an industrial estate and some yachts in January 2009. She was briefly cross-examined. First, she was asked where she was living in January 2009. She said she was "pretty sure" she
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pm at the main entrance near the checkouts. She said there was always someone at the door and that she was wearing a cream brimmed hat, beige shorts, joggers and sunglasses. She said she looked at timber and slip mats, turned right and looked at the paint section. She went up just about every aisle
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with her then-boyfriend, teenager Samuel Devine, whom she accused of having killed Bob Chappell: “Bob had told Sam and that to get off the boat, 'what are you doing?' ... That's when Samuel started flipping, got a bit angry, and lashed out. All I remember was seeing a lot of blood and arguing for
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pm, Neill-Fraser and others went on board. The appellant pointed out a number of anomalies on the yacht. She said that a green rope on the starboard side was in disarray and out of place. She pointed out that a winch handle was in the winch on the main mast and said that it should not have been
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less than one in one hundred million chance that the DNA profile of more than one person, unrelated to each other, would have matched it. There was no evidence establishing how that DNA profile came to be in a substance on the deck of the yacht on 30 January 2009.
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pm, using the yacht's tender, a white inflatable dinghy. Later in the afternoon she returned to the shore in the tender, while Chappell remained on the yacht. The court found Sue returned to the shoreline and out to the yacht later in the evening.
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there. She said that a rope around the winch had been cut and also another rope in a pile on the deck. In the main saloon area she pointed out that a fire extinguisher was missing from a bracket. She also pointed out that an
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761:, the determination of the second appeal was set down for 1 March 2021. On 24 February 2021 it was announced that Tom Percy QC was no longer leading counsel for Neill-Fraser, and that prominent Melbourne barrister,
685:, had fabricated the statutory declaration and had come up with a plan to pay Vass $ 10,000 for adopting the declaration. It was also alleged that Neill-Fraser herself had attempted to cause Vass to sack her then
375:, she said that she had been mistaken about going to Bunnings, claiming that she had mixed up the day with another day a few days earlier when she had left the deceased on board the yacht and gone to the store.
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leading to a miscarriage of justice... We do not abandon the notion of the DNA evidence of being capable of providing the evidence for this court to say there has been a miscarriage of justice.”
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equipment was used in April 2009 to search roughly the same area. Ninety items of interest were located with the sonar. Only 25 of them were dived on. They were not the body of Chappell.
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the deceased. She declined to be interviewed. In cross-examination her explanation was that she felt intimidated and that she had "just never dealt with something this large before".
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must have had an intimate knowledge of the yacht and was not a stranger to it. The jury's attention was drawn to the evidence that the appellant had that knowledge.
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1391:"Former member of Susan Neill-Fraser's legal team may not face trial over alleged attempt to influence witness"
1366:"Susan Neill-Fraser's lawyer successfully argues for footage and transcript to be provides by the Nine Network"
1203:"Susan Neill-Fraser has lodged her second appeal against her murder conviction at the Supreme Court in Hobart"
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1683:"Susan Neill-Fraser murder appeal moves to closing arguments after DNA expert witness dropped by prosecutor"
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1727:"Sue Neill-Fraser's fate still to be decided after appeal against murder conviction wraps early"
1589:"DAY 1: Bob Chappell allegedly attacked by teen | 'I was there': Neill-Fraser witness bombshell"
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1849:"Convicted murderer Susan Neill-Fraser out of prison on parole"
1413:"Stephen Gleeson perverting course of justice Sue Neill-Fraser"
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1819:"Convicted murderer Sue Neill-Fraser, no body no parole laws"
1636:"DAY 2: Bombshell boat evidence recanted as witness crumbles"
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1301:"Killer Susan Neill-Fraser wrote jail note to witness"
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1127:"Key dates in the decade long Susan Neill-Fraser case"
1547:. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 27 August 2019
1479:"Charges dropped against lawyer Jeffrey Ian Thompson"
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1050:27 January
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