Dawn Waite’s evidence excited police, swayed Robert Farquharson’s ex-wife against him and was held to be crucial by the judge. But it might well have been impossible.
A key witness in the case against convicted triple-murderer Robert Farquharson has provided new information that casts serious doubt on the evidence she gave in the Victorian man’s second trial.
At the trial, Waite gave evidence that, on her way back from a shopping trip to Melbourne with her 16-year-old daughter and her friend, she had seen a man through the car’s rear window and then through the side window as she overtook. She described a clean-shaven Caucasian man in his 30s, looking well and not coughing – she could tell because his face was not red.
The prosecution also questioned the other, until-then uncontested evidence about where the children had been sitting in the car because she gave evidence that she had seen all of them in the back seat. However, Farquharson and his boys did not reach the dam until about 7.15pm – a 30-minute drive from where Waite said she was.
Waite’s new information, if correct, that she was in Colac at that time would make it impossible for her to have been on the approach to the dam when Farquharson was. Farquharson’s evidence was that he did not see anyone overtaking at that point.: “Yeah, that’s true … Anyway, yeah, I can’t change the time. That’s exactly what it was … I did have the proof.”
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