An application to retry the man who has already been acquitted of the 1980s murder is rejected by Queensland's Court of Appeal.
An application to use double jeopardy provisions to retry a man over a 1980s murder he was acquitted of, has been dismissed by Queensland's Court of Appeal after finding new evidence was unreliable.The man was acquitted of the murder by a jury but was arrested last year
The judgement handed down this morning said the body of a woman was found with multiple stab wounds, tangled with a blood stained pillow and bed clothes in the bedroom of her flat in September 1987. Samples of his blood and hair we given to police, and officers had access to his car, but no blood was found.
In this case, the Director of Public Prosecutions was relying on new DNA testing results, which became available after the 1988 trial.
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