Prosecutors seek retrial for man acquitted of woman's 1980s Brisbane stabbing
Prosecutors want a man acquitted of stabbing a woman to death in her Brisbane home in the 1980s to be retried for her murder.
A jury found the man not guilty of murdering the woman at a previous trial, but he was arrested and charged with her murder again in July last year.
The state director of public prosecutions is seeking approval from the court of appeal to have the man tried for the murder again under Queensland’s double-jeopardy laws.
The woman was found dead in her bed wearing clothes similar to those she was wearing when she was last seen socialising with friends days earlier, the court was told on Tuesday.
She had been stabbed nine times in the chest and back, and was wrapped up in her bedding along with a pillow.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/06/double-jeopardy-laws-prosecutors-seek-retrial-man-acquitted-of-womans-1980s-brisbane-stabbing
