By Ainsley Pavey
March 8, 2005
Daily Telegraph
A BUTCHER serving a life sentence for the brutal murder of his newborn daughter in Brisbane has lost a High Court appeal against his conviction.
Raymond Akhtar Ali, 52, was jailed for killing his daughter in September 1998 after she was born at Logan Village, south of Brisbane.
Ali, a butcher who slaughtered goats for sale to Muslims, dismembered the baby's corpse and removed her reproductive organs before dumping the body.
He was found guilty of murder and interfering with a corpse after facing trial with the baby's mother in the Supreme Court in Brisbane.
The mother, Amanda Leanne Blackwell, was convicted of manslaughter.
The couple were both convicted of concealing a birth.
Ali has now unsuccessfully appealed his conviction twice in the Court of Appeal in Queensland on the grounds the verdicts were unsafe, the trial judge failed to sum up the case properly, and his lawyer was incompetent.
He argued his legal team failed to object to evidence 27 times or cross examine Blackwell and other witnesses properly.
However, the High Court today dismissed his last appeal in the case, saying the case against Ali was strong and there was no miscarriage of justice.
AAP
No comments:
Post a Comment