Bravo to the editors at The Courier Mail.
Victims of domestic violence, people who work in the field of law, mothers, fathers, Queenslanders, Australians.
Is there anyone out there who agrees with the decision to downgrade the murder charges of Gerard Baden-Clay from murder to manslaughter?
Is there anyone who thinks the law has been upheld? Is there anyone who hasn’t turned their thoughts to the three daughters of Allison, to her sister, her brother, her parents, Geoffrey and Priscilla Dickie?
Today The Courier Mail has taken the bold step of editorialising their front page.
It says it all.
The judges overturned the murder conviction after deciding the jury’s verdict was not sound, as stated in The Courier Mail they found it was unreasonable because it did not follow consideration of an alternative hypothesis – that an argument about Baden-Clay’s unfaithfulness escalated into violence and resulted in accidental death, with a panicked husband then disposing of the body.
In the judgement the Court of Appeal said while Baden-Clay lied about the cause of scratches on his face and tried to hide his wife’s body, there was a reasonable hypothesis he was innocent of murder.
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Interesting that the one punch killers are serving very stiff sentences, when you could argue that someone that hit someone once had no intention to kill them, yet a prolonged attack is certainly enough time for someone to realise they are in the process of killing someone.
But of course the difference is one punch killings generally have male victims.
It seems that it was only 5 minutes ago that one punch killers got virtually a slap on the wrist, it only took a couple of guys to be killed for that to be turned around.
Also, one-punch killers are not hiding the bodies of their victims in locations where they hope they will "wash away" - which must further account for his guilty mind and destroy his innocence plea. Poor Allison.
I guess it was just a lucky accident then!