Justice Denied
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The West Australian. (2019). Justice Denied. Retrieved from http://thewest2.smedia.com.au.db.plcscotch.wa.edu.au/Olive/APA/thewest-archives/SharedView.Article.aspx?parm=gwBknPXi7%2BSFRVBeIfxY72oB4NOnofaLUskr9UCpZjhrB45rafN20HZfczQJzPnjYw%3D%3D
WA’s justice system has still not recovered from a series of bombshell cases between 2002 and 2006. Of these, the collapse of Andrew Mallard’s murder conviction was arguably the biggest, writes John Flint -
Weathered, l. (2003). Investigating Innocence: The Emerging Role of Innocence Projects in the Correction of Wrongful Conviction in Australia. Retrieved from https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/bitstream/handle/10072/6223/23438_1.pdf
DNA technology has uncovered the significant problem of wrongful conviction in the United States. Australians tend to have great faith in our criminal justice system; however, innocent people have also been wrongly convicted in this country.
Mickelberg Brothers
Nine News Perth. (2106, Feb 22). New Battle 9 News Perth. [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyFhLCWXvQg
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The Canberra Times. (1983). Gold swindle Trio Jailed. Retrieved from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/116393825?searchTerm=Mickelberg%20brothers&searchLimits=#
THE Carpenter Government yesterday awarded $1 million in compensation - the largest payment in the state's history - to two brothers wrongly jailed for almost a decade after they were framed by police for the notorious 1982 Perth Mint swindle.
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ABCNews. (2204) Micklebergs cleared over Perth Mint swindle. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2004-07-02/micklebergs-cleared-over-perth-mint-swindle/2003110
The Western Australian Court of Criminal Appeal has quashed the Mickelberg brothers' convictions over the 1982 Perth Mint swindle.
More than two decades ago, Ray and Peter Mickelberg were convicted for stealing 68 kilograms of gold from the Perth Mint. -
Chipperfield, M. (2002). We framed men for gold heist, says detective. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/1397466/We-framed-men-for-gold-heist-says-detective.html
Twenty years after Australia's biggest and most audacious gold heist, a former detective in charge of the case has fled the country after admitting that he used lies, beatings and fabricated evidence to build a case against three brothers convicted of the million-dollar theft.
Lindy Chamberlain
The New York Times. (2014, Nov 17). Dingo's Got My Baby. Trial By Media. Retro Report. New York Times.[Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwd0iomlM1Y.
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Vanovac, N. & Damjanovic, D. (2016). Azaria Chamberlain: Newly released NT Cabinet documents detail decision to review convictions. Retrieved from https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-01/azaria-chamberlain-and-1986-cabinet-documents-released/8152774
n 1986, Lindy Chamberlain was sitting in a Northern Territory jail cell having served three years of a life sentence for murdering her baby daughter, a murder she did not commit.
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Kyriakakis, j. (2012). Lessons from the Chamberlain case: the human cost of wrongful conviction. Retrieved from http://theconversation.com/lessons-from-the-chamberlain-case-the-human-cost-of-wrongful-conviction-7730
The Azaria Chamberlain case is a reminder that the criminal justice system does get it wrong, with each error bearing its own human cost.
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Creighton, R. (2019). Legal Process and Findings. Retrieved from https://lindychamberlain.com/legal-process-and-findings/
As the Crown Prosecutor in the trial put it, it was a case of simple alternatives: either a dingo took Azaria, or she was murdered by her mother. Sadly, now that Lindy has been exonerated many of those in the police, public, and government who favoured murder seem unwilling to consider their alternate claim; that a dingo was responsible.
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The West Australian. (1980 - 2010). Lindy and Azaria Chamberlain articles and documents. Retrieved from https://plcscotch.softlinkhosting.com.au:443/oliver/OpacLogin?corporation=scotchplc&url=%2Fhome%2Fresources%2Fdetails%2F2b3963a80a0000a67b86d7f7002aa35
News articles from various newspapers. 1980 Aug 19 Dog-Snatch Baby Hunt At Dawn; 1980 Aug 20 No Trace of Dog Victim; 1980 Aug 25 Search for Baby to Resume Today; 1980 Aug 26 Foul Play in Loss of Baby Not Ruled Out; 1980 Aug 30 First Police Report; 1980 Dec Report of Les Harris, Expert on Dingo Behavior; 1980 Sept 3 Video Wanted in Dingo Case; 1980 Sept 5 Macabre Rumours on Baby's Death;
Hitchcock, D., & Cox, R. (Producers). (2020). 7News Spotlight: The Lindy Tapes [Television broadcast]. Sydney, NSW: Seven Network.
John Button
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ABC. (2017). Dead unlucky: The John Button story. Retrieved from https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/earshot/wrongful-the-john-button-story/9065942
When he was 18-years-old, John Button had everything a teenage boy in early 1960s Australia could want; a steady job, an enviable car and a devoted girlfriend. But on the night of his 19th birthday, that safe, predictable world would be shattered forever.
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Brown, A. (2012). John Button: Exonerated not compensated. Retrieved from https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/john-button-exonerated-not-compensated-20120704-21h5y.html
John Button has spent almost 50 years fighting for justice and, despite being exonerated of manslaughter, says the Western Australian government is yet to pay its dues.
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Hamlyn, C. (2011). Falling through the cracks of the legal system. Retrieved from https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-09/innocence-project-feature/2878988
A Perth man branded a killer for almost 40 years has been offered the biggest ex gratia payment ever approved in Western Australia, a year after his 1963 manslaughter conviction was quashed.
Nichols, Claire. (Producer). (2012, November 9. 7.30 WA : John Button. [Television Series]. Western Australia:ABC
Henry Keogh
Sunday Night. (2018, Aug 5) Henry Keogh Wrongfully Imprisoned for 20 years - Sunday Night. [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geqO_ezyUpQ
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The Canberra Times. (1994). Retrieved from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/118210136?searchTerm=henry%20keogh%20bath%20murder&searchLimits=
ADELAIDE: A 39-year-old man from Magill in Adelaide's eastern suburbs was yesterday arrested by major crime taskforce detectives and charged with the murder of 28-year-old Adelaide lawyer Anna-Jane Cheney.
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Keogh, H. (2019). Henry Keogh spent 21 years behind bars for the murder of his fiance — a crime he didn’t commit. Retrieved from https://www.news.com.au/national/courts-law/henry-keogh-spent-21-years-behind-bars-for-the-murder-of-his-fiance-a-crime-he-did
To make an awful situation worse, what followed was a flawed trial, my conviction and a life sentence for murder with a minimum of 25 years before I could even apply for parole.
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Opie, R. (2019). Henry Keogh welcomes Supreme Court ruling supporting release of key report. Retrieved from https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-12/henry-keogh-welcomes-court-ruling-supporting-release-of-report/10999392
Henry Keogh has described a court ruling in favour of releasing a report which he believes wrongly kept him in jail as a "monumental" win in his quest for truth.
Andrew Mallard
ABC News in Depth. (2019, Jun 26). An Innocent Man Jailed for 12 years: Andrew Mallards wrongful conviction Australian Story [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4orkOguoRyE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4orkOguoRyE
The circumstances of Andrew Mallard's wrongful murder conviction have been thrust back into the spotlight with the death of the Western Australian in the United States.
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https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/how-the-mallard-case-unfolded-20081007-4vhk.html
Andrew Mark Mallard was wrongfully convicted in 1995 of murdering jeweller Pamela Lawrence at her Mosman Park shop on May 23, 1994.
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Thomson, C.(2008). How the Mallard case unfolded. Retrieved from https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/andrew-mallard-death-a-wa-mans-12-year-fight-for-justice-and-freedom-ng-b881173914z
“I am an innocent man ... you have not heard the last of this.”
With those words, a then 33-year-old Andrew Mark Mallard was led from the dock of the Supreme Court in Perth towards a life sentence for a murder he did not commit.
Colin Campbell Ross
ABC News Australia. (2018, Nov 10). Gun Alley Murder - The Twist. [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9DjnmmV5cg
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Cowan, J. (2008).Pardon not enough, murdered girl's relative says. Retrieved from https://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-05-27/pardon-not-enough-murdered-girls-relative-says/2450334
It is too late to save his life, but today a man who was executed for murder 86 years ago has been pardoned.
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Lack, J & Morgan, K. (2019). Ross, Colin Campbell Eadie (1892–1922). Retrieved from http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ross-colin-campbell-eadie-13175
Colin Campbell Eadie Ross (1892-1922), convicted murderer, was born on 11 October 1892 at North Fitzroy, Melbourne, third of five children of Thomas Ross, groom, and his wife Elizabeth Campbell, née Eadie. By the late 1890s the Ross family was living at Maidstone. After Thomas left for Western Australia, never to return, Elizabeth struggled to raise her children.
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Ergo. (n.d.). Retrieved from The Gun Alley Murder. http://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/explore-history/rebels-outlaws/city-criminals/gun-alley-murder
On 31 December 1921, the body of 12-year-old Alma Tirtschke was found in a laneway. Alma had been raped, strangled and left naked behind a popular wine saloon. The murder became known as the ‘Gun Alley Murder', and was front-page news for months.