Dick Knights Mumm
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Falconio - Court Ruling
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Dick Knights Mumm
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dave the gaffer said:
No - it was those pesky kids ................
bailey
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Perhaps Murdoch killed him then couldn't bring himself to kill her too and sort of let her escape. The man's a nutcase clearly.
However, there does seem something fishy about her....
However, there does seem something fishy about her....
Basil Fawlty
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Gritt23
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dave the gaffer said:
Maybe, maybe not. I'm just saying I've always felt there was something about this story that just didn't make sense.
I've followed the trial and I still can't understand how she escaped.
bailey
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Gritt23 said:
Did anyone call Skippy as a witness? I bet he helped.
JJ McClure
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Agree with the general sentiments that it has all sounded a bit odd and very unconvincing, but there were a couple of pieces of very clear evidence (blood on his clothes and his DNA on the cuffs used on the girlfriend) that place him at the scene. After hearing ALL the evidence a jury has convicted him. I'll go along with what they say.
Gritt23 said:
Agreed - she was and is strange!!
Tom Hark Preston Park
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brightonfan_86 said:
Scarey lady
Woodingdean Gull
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Gritt23 said:
If you've followed the trial then you'll know that she demonstrated in court to the judge and the jury how she was able to escape.
FFS don't you think that the jury will have listened to all of the evidence, for and against, and that maybe they've a little bit more knowledge of events than anyone over here who only gets snippets from the Argos and the local TV news?
Think how Murdoch may have thought. Two backpackers, tie up the female, kill the guy, have "a bit of fun", then kill the girl. Rocket science it f*cking aint.
I also think the blood on him and his DNA on the cuffs make pretty damning evidence.
I hope he gets proper life.
Tom Bombadil
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Possible explanation for Murdoch behaviour.
Decides to murder Falconio cos it can be done quickly, but wants to spend more time raping, torturing the girl. The longer he stay's on the higway the more the chance of someone else turning up so he decides to drive to somewhere even quieter to do whatever it was he intended.
Decides to murder Falconio cos it can be done quickly, but wants to spend more time raping, torturing the girl. The longer he stay's on the higway the more the chance of someone else turning up so he decides to drive to somewhere even quieter to do whatever it was he intended.
Dick Knights Mumm
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you have clearly given this some thought ..................
Gritt23
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Woodingdean Gull said:
Of course I know, as I have followed the trial! But it still doesn't ring true. Her performance on the floor of the court room is all well and good, but this is a crazed murderer, who surely would have taken more care to ensure the only witness is locked up in his vehicle, while he is carefully doing a good enough job of disposing of the other body, that it has never been found. With peter he is being meticulously careful, with Joanne, he just lets her scramble away to the bushes to hide.
For those who, as Woodingdean said, have only followed this via the Argus, this was her evidence of escape.
PM - Thursday, 20 October , 2005 18:10:44
Reporter: Anne Barker
TANYA NOLAN: First we go to Darwin, where there's been a sensational day of evidence at the trial of accused murderer Bradley Murdoch.
Chief witness Joanne Lees agreed to have her wrists bound inside the court, to show the jury how she'd acted on the night she escaped her alleged attacker.
In a packed court, Ms Lees demonstrated how she'd brought her hands to the front of her body, while hiding under a bush in the darkness of the outback in July 2001.
Ms Lees is the star witness against 47-year-old Mr Murdoch, who's accused of murdering Ms Lees' boyfriend Peter Falconio, who hasn't been seen since.
During day two of her cross-examination, defence counsel Grant Algie proposed to Ms Lees that she'd accused the wrong man.
Anne Barker was in court for PM.
ANNE BARKER: In the most dramatic evidence yet, Joanne Lees stood in the middle of Supreme Court room six with her hands bound behind her back.
The court had just adjourned while she changed her clothes from a skirt and t-shirt into a grey long-legged gym outfit.
When she returned her wrists were bound with black ties, to resemble the manacles she alleges her attacker used when he tried to abduct her near Barrow Creek in July 2001.
In full view of the jury, Joanne Lees sat on the courtroom floor and brought her bound hands under her legs to the front of her body.
The Chief Justice Brian Martin addressed the jury.
"You'll notice she was sitting with her knees up", he said, "and she moved her hands from back to front."
The prosecutor Rex Wild asked the judge to note to the jury how long it had taken for Joanne Lees to achieve.
"Something in the order of one to two seconds", the judge said. And he added, "Please understand that is not a recreation of the precise circumstances, because the ties were not used. But it is there as a demonstration to you of the situation of moving the hands from the back to the front with no more movement between the wrists than there was on the night in question."
withdeanwombat
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Guilty.Cut his goolies off.
Storer68
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I don't understand why he was prepared and able to kill one person, but wasn't prepared and able to kill two people
Cian
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Sneaky George said:
Could have sworn you were talking about Rupes there for a second...
Tom Bombadil
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Oh no he's on to me.Dick Knights Mum said:
Memo to self - Kill Dick Knights Mum