Bulletin: David Harold Eastman: (Australia); Court protects identity of a mafia informant who will give potentially crucial evidence in any second trial; Judge rules "Witness "A"' faces serious and dangerous retribution if his identity is revealed. "Witness "A"' could form an important part of Eastman's defence. Canberra Times.

A mafia informant who will give potentially crucial evidence in any second trial of David Eastman faces serious and dangerous retribution if his identity is revealed, a judge has said. The informant, known only as "Witness A", could form an important part of Eastman's defence, should he face trial again for the murder of Assistant Federal Police Commissioner Colin Stanley Winchester in 1989.  The witness provided information to Victoria Police suggesting that another person with no connection to Eastman may have been responsible for Mr Winchester's murder. Revelations about the witness, heard during the inquiry into Eastman's conviction last year, breathed new life into an alternative theory that the Calabrian mafia, or 'Ndrangheta, assassinated Mr Winchester in the belief the senior policeman had double-crossed them.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/dangers-to-mafia-informant-real-and-compelling-eastman-judge-says-20150427-1mu4el.html