Lawyers for South Australian killer Wendie-Sue Dent have told a court that it was 'speculation' she murdered her partner because he called off their wedding for lying about being a model and a nanny for the Royal Family.
Lawyers for South Australian killer Wendie-Sue Dent have told a court that it was "speculation" she murdered her partner because he called off their wedding for lying about being a model and a nanny for the Royal Family.Dent was found guilty of fatally poisoning her partner with prescription medication
But the 62-year-old has lodged an appeal against her conviction on the grounds the verdict was "unsafe" given the circumstantial evidence against her. The court was told that some of the lies were not told to the jury at trial but were ventilated during a defence application for the case to be thrown out.
She said the "Crown theory" was that either Mr Lawrence confronted her about these lies or Dent realised he knew about them.Ms Shaw told the court that theory was "speculative" before submitting that Dent had no motive to kill her partner.
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