STORY: "Henry Keogh launches new challenge against
conviction for murdering his fiance, Anna-Jane Cheney, by Chief Court
Reporter Sean Fewster, published by Adelaide Now on July 10, 2013.
GIST: In the Supreme Court today, lawyers for Henry Keogh outlined their
client's latest challenge to his conviction - the first to be filed
under a historic change to South Australian law. Keogh, who has
twice been found guilty of the 1994 crime and has lost numerous appeals,
wants the Full Court of the Supreme Court to quash his conviction. His
challenge arises from new laws allowing the court to hear an appeal,
even after all appeal rights have been exhausted, if "fresh and
compelling evidence" emerges. During Keogh's second trial,
prosecutors alleged he drowned Ms Cheney in her bathtub by grabbing her
legs and lifting them up over her head. Jurors were also told Ms Cheney's leg featured a small bruise consistent with such an act. Today, Marie Shaw, QC, for Keogh, said her client would contest
those two issues based on statements made by forensic pathologist Colin
Manock after the trial concluded. She said there was no pathological evidence supporting the existence of any bruise on Ms Cheney's leg. "This
was a prosecution scenario, or hypothesis, as to the cause of death
and, since the trial, Dr Manock has acknowledged that," she said. "He
has since acknowledged that was an assumption that the prosecution
asked him to make, and so that entire scenario has been undermined by
admissions Dr Manock has made.""
The entire story can be found at:
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/henry-keogh-launches-new-challenge-against-conviction-for-murdering-his-fiance-annajane-cheney/story-fni6uo1m-1226677049470
See Wikipedia account: "Manock, when photographing the body, saw what he believed to be a
four bruises on the calf of Cheney, caused by what he believed to be a
grip mark. When a sample was taken of the thumb bruise and examined for
bruising, the result was negative.
Despite this, this apparent bruise was used in Manock's proposed theory
that Keogh had gripped Cheney's legs to hold her underwater in the
bath, drowning her. When asked about the age of the bruises during the trial, he
responded: "I could find no evidence of white blood-cell migration into
the areas and therefore, I felt they were peri-mortem. In other words,
they’d occurred close to the time of death. I felt that was probably
within 4 hours." The Prosecution stated during the trial: "But there are two things,
you might think, that are crucial to this case. If those four bruises on
her lower left leg were inflicted at the same time, and that time was
just before she died in the bath, there is no other explanation for
them, other than a grip. If it was a grip, it must have been the grip of
the accused. If it was the grip of the accused, it must have been part
of the act of murder."
Manock has since stated that the bruise could have occurred up to a number of days prior to Cheney's death."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Keogh
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