Category Archives: Case 01 Sue Neill-Fraser

Vass testimony & the courtroom war over DNA

Andrew L. Urban. On Tuesday, DPP Daryl Coates SC, from whom the soured milk of human unkindness oozed like puss, was relentless in exploiting the vulnerability of Meaghan Vass and her distressing emotional unraveling to achieve his objective: damage or … Continue reading

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Meaghan Vass evidence ‘unreliable’, focus on DNA

Andrew L. Urban. Sue Neill-Fraser’s legal team conceded before lunch on Day 2 of the appeal against her murder convction, that Meaghan Vass, highly stressed and agitated from the beginning, was delivering testimony during cross examination that would not be … Continue reading

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Sue Neill-Fraser was not at crime scene

Andrew L. Urban When At 11.50 am on Monday March 1, 2021, at the Sue Neill-Fraser appeal in Hobart, Meaghan Vass replied ‘Yes’ to the first question put to her by Robert Richter QC, the pent up anticipation of a … Continue reading

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Sue Neill-Fraser appeal check list

Andrew L. Urban. For the benefit of members of the public following the Sue Neill-Fraser appeal (against her 2010 conviction for the murder of her partner Bob Chappell) in Hobart’s Supreme Court commencing Monday, March 1, 2021, we have compiled … Continue reading

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Robert Richter QC to lead Sue Neill-Fraser appeal team

One of the prominent barristers who has always maintained that Sue Neill-Fraser’s murder conviction is unsustainable, Melbourne based Robert Richter QC, has announced in the Tasmanian Court of Criminal Appeal today via videolink from Melbourne that he will lead her … Continue reading

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Sue Neill-Fraser appeal – logistics update

Sue Neill-Fraser’s Melbourne-based instructing solicitor, Paul Galbally’s travel hopes to attend her new appeal against her 2010 murder conviction in Hobart’s Supreme Court from March 1 improved markedly today as Tasmania lifted the high risk level restrictions on travellers from … Continue reading

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Sue Neill-Fraser supreme court appeal – evidence Fact Sheet letterbox drop

Some 20,000 Fact Sheets (see below) about the Sue Neill-Fraser case will be distributed to letter boxes around Hobart ahead of her latest appeal that begins on March 1, 2021, in Hobart Supreme Court, as a community service on behalf … Continue reading

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Sue Neill-Fraser appeal to start soon – but will it end the nightmare?

Andrew L. Urban.  Sue Neill-Fraser, 65, has never hugged her grandchildren outside prison. She was arrested# on August 20, 2009, charged with murdering her partner Bob Chappell on Australia Day 2009. We hereby mark the bleak 12th anniversary. She has … Continue reading

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The knife, the wrench, the prosecutor and his prejudice

Andrew L. Urban An observer at the 2010 murder trial of Sue Neill-Fraser has confirmed that early in the trial, the prosecutor, then DPP Tim Ellis SC, held up a large knife – flourishing it inside a plastic bag as … Continue reading

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Sue Neill-Fraser appeal deferred (yet again) to March 1, 2021

Andrew L. Urban. Just 18 months before Sue Neill-Fraser becomes eligible for parole after 13 years in prison, her new appeal will now be heard in the first week of March 2021 – coronavirus travel restrictions permitting, it was decided … Continue reading

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