Stephen Wayne “Shorty” Jamieson, now 58, was convicted in 1990 over the abduction, rape and murder of 20-year-old Janine Balding on September 8, 1988.
The NSW Supreme Court is set to rule on whether an inquiry should be held into the decades-old conviction of one of three homeless youths jailed over the savage 1988 rape and murder of Janine Balding in Sydney, amid questions about whether DNA evidence may create doubt about his guilt.
The 20-year-old’s abduction from Sutherland station and murder in Minchinbury shocked Sydneysiders and devastated Balding’s family. “As a purely hypothetical theoretical matter, the detection on that bandana of Mr Wells’ DNA, if that turned out to be the fact, to use as neutral an expression as I can, on your case, would raise a question or doubt about his conviction,” Harrison said.Stephen Wayne “Shorty” Jamieson at the time of the murder.
Harrison directed the attorney-general to file written submissions by May 8 in response to Jamieson’s application for an inquiry. The parties return to court on May 13. Breen told the court that “the laboratories in Australia aren’t good enough to test the bandana in the way it needs to be tested”.
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