A devoted aunt investigates the mysterious death of her niece Amy Wensley, throwing doubt on the police case and exposing devastating investigative failures.
In the days before Amy and David's daughter was born, Natasha walked unexpectedly into the kitchen to find Amy bent over the table with David's hands around her neck."It was just intense. I never thought I would see that, like she's nine months pregnant. It was … heartbreaking.Amy's mother Nancy never witnessed physical violence but was concerned by the demeaning way David spoke to her daughter.Amy Wensley and her two daughters.
"Almost all of it has been unpaid," he says. "I try and stay with people who are fighting incredibly painful and difficult battles as long as I possibly can.""I was just thinking, 'Oh my God, this is someone who believes'."The wheels of justice were finally turning.The pair gained access to the first police report and found more evidence of police errors, including the suggestion that Amy was Indigenous, when she was of Thai descent.
Police found Amy with her right hand wedged under her thigh. A lack of gunshot residue and blood on that hand suggested it was under her thigh when the gun was fired. This graphic by Australian Story depicts the model in the biometrics report re-enacting multiple scenarios. The conclusion Professor Ackland sent back to the Cold Case squad was that her death was "highly consistent with her having been shot by another person".
Anna believes police thought it looked like possible evidence Amy had killed herself, but when Anna looks at the photo, she sees "someone who wants to defend themselves".The Cold Case review offered three possibilities for what happened: Amy had killed herself; somebody else killed her; or there was an accidental discharge of the firearm while she or somebody else was holding it.
Last February, six-and-a-half years after Amy's death, her family gathered nervously outside the coroner's court where the case would finally be the subject of an inquest.
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