Category Archives: Case 01 Sue Neill-Fraser

The Hon Elise Archer MP Attorney General of Tasmania April 23, 2019 Dear Attorney General, I am writing this as an open letter to you in the interests of transparency and the unprecedented public interest in this matter. I do … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban. At a hearing in Hobart today, the prosecution told the court that key murder witness in the Sue Neill-Fraser case, Meaghan Vass, had said ‘No comment’ to everything put to her by police when she was picked … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban. Yesterday’s story by Matthew Denholm in The Australian (‘Yacht murder witness changes her tune again’) does not refer to any new statement made by Meaghan Vass in the matter of Sue Neill-Fraser, but is a repeat of … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban. The key witness in the Sue Neill-Fraser case, Meaghan Vass, has today denied claims attributed to police in today’s The Australian that she has recanted her 60 Minutes testimony admitting she was on board Four Winds at … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban. Fully 99% of the 85,000 pageviews on this blog in the past two months were of stories about the Sue Neill-Fraser case. In that period, we published 24 new articles on the case (60 articles altogether). Average … Continue reading →

Sue Neill-Fraser could be freed … IF … a hypothetical by legal academic Dr Bob Moles*.

Our readers are angry. They want her released NOW. The long simmering sentiment is fuelled by Meaghan Vass’ eye witness testimony : obviously she didn’t do it, they say. This in spite of the upcoming appeal against her conviction for … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban In 2012, following her 2010 conviction for the murder of Bob Chappell on their yacht on Australia Day 2009, Sue Neill-Fraser’s appeal against the verdict was refused by Crawford CJ, Tennent and Porter JJ. In light of … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban When Meaghan Vass finally identified herself to the court in March 2019 as an eye witness to Bob Chappell’s 2009 murder, confirming the evidence of her DNA at the crime scene, the prosecution’s circumstantial case against Sue … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban Australians concerned that Sue Neill-Fraser is destined to spend her tenth year in prison despite it being now known for sure by the legal system* that she is innocent of the murder conviction that put her there, … Continue reading →