I agree with Chris Smith (Letters, December 11) that David Eastman was wrongly convicted. Two bullets to the head of Police commissioner Winchester (at close quarters) is more likely to be a crime-gang execution than the work of a Treasury official. But to probe a gang execution would require probing Winchester’s possible connection with that gang. Probing that connection was a step that police would not take. Eastman was an easier (but wrong) target.
Other examples of wrongful conviction include: Lindy Chamberlain; the Guildford Five, in Britain; more than 600 convicts on death row in the US who were released after DNA tests proved they didn’t do it.
Sue Neill-Fraser got 26 years for murder in Tasmania. There was no body, no witness, no confession, no evidence. Evidence and DNA that proved she didn’t murder her husband was withheld from the jury.
– Graham Macafee, Latham, ACT, a CLA member, originally run in the Letters section of the Canberra Times 12 Dec 2013
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