Murdoch nowhere near murder scene: defence
Amanda Morgan | 05.12.2005 05:53 | Analysis | Culture | World
His client does not know what happened the night
The defence lawyer in the Peter Falconio murder trial has told a Darwin jury that his client does not know what happened the night the tourist disappeared because he was not there.
Closing submissions have begun in the trial of 47-year-old Bradley John Murdoch.
He has pleaded not guilty to killing Mr Falconio and assaulting Joanne Lees more than four years ago.
Defence lawyer Grant Algie said an unknown, unrelated, random perpetrator stopped Mr Falconio and Ms Lees on a Territory highway.
He said it was tempting to say the unknown person then disposed of Mr Falconio's body.
But he suggested to the jury that it would be odd to pick up a dead body and put it in a car.
Mr Algie also questioned sections of Ms Lees' evidence and reminded the jury that Mr Falconio's body has never been found.
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Expert baffled by Falconio evidence DNA contamination
The court also heard swabs taken from the back of the couple's Kombi van were not tested for gunshot residue because there was no evidence of a gun being used or a cartridge being found at the crime scene.
http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/99220.php
Outback DNA evidence 'contaminated'
During cross-examination by Grant Algie, defending, Ms Eckhoff said she did not know how his DNA came to be on the exhibit.
More: http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/9340
Unfaithful Lees admits taking drugs, court told
NT: Key witness Joanne lees, has testified in the Northern Territory Supreme Court to smoking Marijuana on the night her boyfriend Peter Falconio went missing.
Yesterday she told the court how unfaithful she was to her boyfriend and that she'd even had an affair. But for some reason Lees wasn't a suspect in her own boyfriends killing?
More: http://www.geocities.com/publik18/archive05/2005d55.html
No Murder Weapon, No Body, No Place or Time of Death
NT: Joanne Lees ought to be the main suspect in this show trial. There is no body and no weapon to be found and Joanne Lees had a clear and present motive. She knew him, she travelled with him, she was unfaithful to him and she said that she was the last person to see him on the night she was stoned out of her head. So where does Bradley James Murdoch fit in?
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Trial of B J Murdoch
The trial of Bradley John Murdoch may be sensational - but for the wrong reason. This trial has had serious flaws in it - decide for yourself
Pride and Prejudice versus facts and truth.Trial of Bradley John Murdoch
More: http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/97709.php
Closing submissions have begun in the trial of 47-year-old Bradley John Murdoch.
He has pleaded not guilty to killing Mr Falconio and assaulting Joanne Lees more than four years ago.
Defence lawyer Grant Algie said an unknown, unrelated, random perpetrator stopped Mr Falconio and Ms Lees on a Territory highway.
He said it was tempting to say the unknown person then disposed of Mr Falconio's body.
But he suggested to the jury that it would be odd to pick up a dead body and put it in a car.
Mr Algie also questioned sections of Ms Lees' evidence and reminded the jury that Mr Falconio's body has never been found.
Related:
Expert baffled by Falconio evidence DNA contamination
The court also heard swabs taken from the back of the couple's Kombi van were not tested for gunshot residue because there was no evidence of a gun being used or a cartridge being found at the crime scene.
http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/99220.php Outback DNA evidence 'contaminated'
During cross-examination by Grant Algie, defending, Ms Eckhoff said she did not know how his DNA came to be on the exhibit.
More:
http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/9340 Unfaithful Lees admits taking drugs, court told
NT: Key witness Joanne lees, has testified in the Northern Territory Supreme Court to smoking Marijuana on the night her boyfriend Peter Falconio went missing.
Yesterday she told the court how unfaithful she was to her boyfriend and that she'd even had an affair. But for some reason Lees wasn't a suspect in her own boyfriends killing?
More:
http://www.geocities.com/publik18/archive05/2005d55.html No Murder Weapon, No Body, No Place or Time of Death
NT: Joanne Lees ought to be the main suspect in this show trial. There is no body and no weapon to be found and Joanne Lees had a clear and present motive. She knew him, she travelled with him, she was unfaithful to him and she said that she was the last person to see him on the night she was stoned out of her head. So where does Bradley James Murdoch fit in?
More:
http://www.geocities.com/publik18/archive05/2005d52.html Trial of B J Murdoch
The trial of Bradley John Murdoch may be sensational - but for the wrong reason. This trial has had serious flaws in it - decide for yourself
Pride and Prejudice versus facts and truth.Trial of Bradley John Murdoch
More:
http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/97709.php
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