New trials ordered over Blue Mountains murder
Posted Fri Dec 3, 2004 6:43pm AEDT
The Court of Criminal Appeal has ordered new trials for three people who were jailed for murdering a man in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.
Steven Charles Smit and his wife, Shiree Anne Smit, were sentenced to 17 years in jail, and their friend Donna Clare Tarrant was sentenced to 14 years, after all three were found guilty of murdering Craig Collins.
Police found Mr Collins's body wrapped in blankets at his Katoomba apartment in August of 2001, after receiving an anonymous call.
Mr Collins had suffered 100 different injuries.
All three appealed against their guilty convictions, and the Court of Criminal Appeal has today upheld their application, finding that the trial judge made some errors in his directions to the jury.
The court has quashed their convictions, and ordered all three to face new trials.
from: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2004/12/03/1257711.htm accessed 4 September 2009
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