James Morton Mason was jailed for life in December 2022 after being found guilty by a jury of murdering Alexis Parkes.
Alexis Parkes died in 2020 after her partner James Mason Moreton set fire to her home in Chermside in Brisbane's north.
Justice Philip Morrison said in the appeal judgment the jury was properly instructed as Mason's defence was brief and straightforward. The jury heard Mason was still angry after an argument with Parkes, and set alight a car parked under her house in the early hours of February 2020 and watched as she tried to escape. Parkes, 50, was found unresponsive huddled on the floor by a firefighter inside the home at Chermside in Brisbane's north.Four days later the mother-of-four's life support was turned off after enduring multiple organ failure from injuries caused by the fire.
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