Monthly Archives: June 2020

Robert Xie – exonerated by autopsy evidence

Posted on June 26, 2020 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. 26 June, 2020: With the backdrop of the appeal against his conviction, (started 22 June, 2020), a proposition emerges that it wasn’t Robert Xie who killed five members of the Lin family in 2009, but at least … Continue reading →

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Robert Xie appeal – was he ‘framed’?

Posted on June 24, 2020 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. “I am innocent,” Robert Xie called out in court before being led away to a lifetime in jail for the brutal and bloody murder of five of his wife’s family, with whom he had dinner the night … Continue reading →

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Robert Xie appeal Day 2 – stuck on DNA that wasn’t at crime scene

Posted on June 23, 2020 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. Robert Xie’s barrister, Belinda Rigg SC, continued on Day 2 of the hearing to pull apart the expert evidence around the DNA, arguing to the appeal court that the uncertainty of forensic testing outcomes were never properly … Continue reading →

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Robert Xie appeal refutes DNA evidence at trial

Posted on June 22, 2020 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban.  Two large screens facing the court room show a diminutive Robert Xie, seated at a desk, dressed in black and holding a black pen, linked in from the Lithgow Correctional Facility, where he is serving a life … Continue reading →

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Robert Xie historic appeal to begin

Posted on June 19, 2020 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. Chief Justice of NSW Tom Bathurst QC will be one of the judges (along with Justices Hulme and Beech-Jones) to hear the appeal by Lian Bin (Robert) Xie against his five 2017 murder convictions, starting on Monday, … Continue reading →

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A cancerous phenomenon

Posted on June 13, 2020 by andrew

One of Australia’s most respected former detectives, COLIN McLAREN, has broken rank from police circles, to speak out against a judicial system he no longer believes in. Indeed, he suffered threats of arrest because he dared to find glaring faults … Continue reading →

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