Pamphlets on Sue Neill-Fraser case to be dropped to 20,000 homes ahead of March 1 appeal hearing

Some 20,000 Hobart homes will be letterboxed ahead of Sue Neill-Fraser’s March 1 murder appeal hearing. FULL STORY HERE >>

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SOME 20,000 pamphlets about the upcoming Sue Neill-Fraser murder appeal, prepared by crime writer Andrew L Urban, will be letterboxed to Hobart homes this week.

The five-day hearing begins March 1 in the Tasmanian Court of Criminal Appeal, with Neill-Fraser’s lawyers to argue there is fresh and compelling evidence that establishes a substantial miscarriage of justice.

Urban is the author of a book on four murder Australian cases including that of Neill-Fraser, with his pamphlet outlining the grandmother’s case as well as the evidence that has triggered the appeal.

Neill-Fraser, 66, was jailed for 23 years – with a non-parole period of 13 – for the murder of her partner Bob Chappell aboard their yacht the Four Winds on Australia Day 2009.

According to the notice of appeal, Neill-Fraser’s legal team will argue there is fresh and compelling evidence that Ms Vass boarded the Four Winds and that Mr Chappell was attacked while she was on board.

Issues surrounding DNA evidence, luminol testing and a winching reconstruction will also be thrashed out.

Neill-Fraser’s lawyers will also claim a dinghy seen near the yacht at the time was not the Four Winds’ tender.

Author Andrew L Urban.

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