Recent content by JLZ

I'm a bit confused as to what you're saying. Is it that even people who aren't vulnerable because of their race and lack of status often resist coming forward as witnesses? I was surprised that only about half of the cars in the broadcast five minutes ended up being identified. Probably some...

Long version: https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/vic/VSCA/2025/315.html

Or if he'd been deaf. I think so?

I wouldn't think it would be easy for him to catch Indie. Even if she approached him barking, she's not going to be easy for a stranger to grab, let alone one with hostile intention. If Singh is already attacking Toyah when Indie goes for him, that could be different.

Indeed. But the jury's just retired and you'll all survive if I don't say everything I think right now.

Your first paragraph: yes, that's about it (without the question mark). An agreed statement of facts is a record of what's not in dispute, so the judge doesn't need to be looking for and assessing evidence as to those points. The accused can't be compelled to disclose anything about the...

He had the opportunity. He had to have been there at the time of the killing. In addition to the car evidence, he said he saw the murder and that's why he ran. If he didn't witness the murder, he has no explanation for leaving the country other than that he killed Toyah himself.

I disagree in several respects. Yes, the NZ expert Patel said that she found no signs of the DNA (from the fingernail) being mixed. That's not the same as saying that the DNA showed signs of being unmixed. I don't mean that her observation about the lack of signal is of no relevance or value...

I can--I mean I don't necessarily accept that it's his DNA on, let alone "under", Toyah's fingernail. Because the Y-chromosome material tested might have come from several different men. Apart from that, if the DNA on the fingernail is Singh's, perhaps Toyah might have got it by transfer from...

And then tightened it himself, IMO.

It doesn't quite amount to "reason". I feel protective of him because he was so young. No doubt he got up to a few things he shouldn't have, and led a somewhat unconventional life later. It seems unlikely to me that as a Greek in inner Melbourne he had the extremely deprived upbringing that...

Same problem, basically: no evidence that she wasn't alive at the time.

But necrophilic practice isn't rape. Changing the subject slightly, I am hopeful that Perry didn't have anything to do with these killings (or with touching the corpses).

What they need is evidence of a smuggling operation, that would have put piratical types on a beach gathering up the imports that have been offloaded in water just deep enough to conceal them. But see, this time there were a couple of witnesses and a dog, and obviously that had to be fixed, but...

Warning, unpleasant imaginings. That small building near the sand hills that looks like it's half buried in earth. I think of Gus climbing onto its roof and somehow sliding down and getting trapped between the building and the banked sides, causing a small landslide of earth on top of him.