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实际上,要不是林家孤女指证谢多次猥亵她。谢妻Cathy提供的不在场证明Alibi,是不会被检方攻破的。
法官说她的思路是这样:
一是检方安插的狱友钓鱼问谢,你那晚是不是给老婆喂了安眠药,谢哼了一声,没有否认;
二是法官相信邻家孤女的证词,明显2009年谢多次猥亵林家孤女的时候Cathy没有醒,那么Cathy说每次谢起床,她都会醒就是不可靠的,延伸出去就是案发当天的谢妻给出不在场证明也是不可靠的。
Consistent with the verdicts of the jury, the Crown disproved the alibi relied upon by the offender at his trial to the criminal standard. Although the offender did not give evidence at his trial, evidence in support of the alibi was adduced from his wife who said the offender was in bed with her when the murders were committed, an account the offender had given to police when he was interviewed within days of the murders and the account he maintained when he was interviewed by police the following year.
It was the Crown case that the jury would be satisfied that the alibi was false and that the offender had sedated his wife to facilitate leaving his home in the early hours of 18 July 2009, without his wife’s knowledge, in pursuance of his plan to go to 55A Boundary Road and kill at least Min Lin and Lily Lin. It was the Crown case on sentence that this was another feature of the offender’s premeditated plan to kill at least Min Lin and Lily Lin and that I would find that feature established beyond reasonable doubt.
At trial the Crown adduced two forms of direct evidence in proof of the fact that the offender sedated his wife. The first, the evidence of Witness A, a prison informer, who said that in the course of a conversation in the prison yard the offender volunteered that he had sedated his wife and the second, a conversation recorded on a listening device when Witness A raised with the offender that earlier conversation in response to which, in the Crown’s submission, the offender is heard to murmur his assent to the proposition that he had sedated his wife or at least did not to demur from it. There was no other evidence adduced at trial bearing upon the issue of sedation per se.
The jury were directed that they were entitled to have regard to all of the evidence led at trial when considering whether the Crown had negatived alibi beyond reasonable doubt. While I consider it very likely that the offender sedated his wife, I am unable to be satisfied of that fact beyond reasonable doubt. There remains, in my view, a possibility that Kathy Lin simply did not wake when the offender left the house sometime after 2am on 18 July 2009, returning later that morning. In coming to that view, I have taken into account Kathy Lin’s evidence that she had never woken to find the offender not beside her in bed and would always wake if he left the bed for any reason. Since I accept Ms AB’s evidence that the offender entered the bedroom she shared with the offender’s son and sexually assaulted her on repeated occasions between August 2009, when she became a member of the offender’s household, and when he was arrested in May 2011, Kathy Lin’s evidence that she would always wake if the offender left the bed, and that he had never done so and gone into Ms AB’s bedroom at night, cannot be accepted as reliable.
https://www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/58a0d8c2e4b058596cba3ea9 |
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