For anyone following the Corinna Marr case in Adelaide, Australia, the judge is currently making a decision on the admissibility of a secretly recorded police interview:
http://www.news.com.au/national/marr-boss-taped-police-interview-for-my-safety/story-fndo4dzn-1226517617530
THE FORMER boss of murdered model Corinna Marr says he secretly recorded a 2008 police interview because he believed the investigation was poorly handled and that he feared for his safety.
Colin Todd was Ms Marr's boss at a Firle real estate agency when she was shot dead in the bedroom of her Collinswood unit on the afternoon of July 4, 1997.
Mr Todd told the Supreme Court today that he had hidden a digital recorder in a bowl of fruit when he was interviewed by Detective Senior Sergeant John Keane and another detective in the kitchen of his home on October 23, 2008.
"The sole purpose of the actual recording was because of my safety," he said.
Mr Todd said he feared for his safety because he and a friend had gathered material on the murder when he became frustrated with his perceived lack of progress by police.
"There is a murderer out there and the situation is that if they get wind that we have been looking into the murder, you just don't know what could happen."
Mr Todd was called to give evidence to help Justice Trish Kelly
determine whether the secret recording could be used in the defamation
trial brought by suspect and former photographer Derick Sands, who is
suing the state over claims police ruined his life by outing him as a
suspect.
He said Det Snr Sgt Keane had rejected his assertion that he did not believe Mr Sands was the killer and that police should have investigated Ms Marr's husband Robert further.
Lawyers for Mr Sands are seeking to have the recording tendered as evidence in order to prove Det Snr Sgt Keane had omitted information provided by Mr Todd when he typed up the statement.
Crown lawyer Darrell Trim QC has objected to the tape being used in evidence and claimed Mr Todd and Mr Sands' legal team could have committed an offence under the Listening Devices Act by seeking to do so.
http://www.news.com.au/national/marr-boss-taped-police-interview-for-my-safety/story-fndo4dzn-1226517617530
THE FORMER boss of murdered model Corinna Marr says he secretly recorded a 2008 police interview because he believed the investigation was poorly handled and that he feared for his safety.
Colin Todd was Ms Marr's boss at a Firle real estate agency when she was shot dead in the bedroom of her Collinswood unit on the afternoon of July 4, 1997.
Mr Todd told the Supreme Court today that he had hidden a digital recorder in a bowl of fruit when he was interviewed by Detective Senior Sergeant John Keane and another detective in the kitchen of his home on October 23, 2008.
"The sole purpose of the actual recording was because of my safety," he said.
Mr Todd said he feared for his safety because he and a friend had gathered material on the murder when he became frustrated with his perceived lack of progress by police.
"There is a murderer out there and the situation is that if they get wind that we have been looking into the murder, you just don't know what could happen."
He said Det Snr Sgt Keane had rejected his assertion that he did not believe Mr Sands was the killer and that police should have investigated Ms Marr's husband Robert further.
Lawyers for Mr Sands are seeking to have the recording tendered as evidence in order to prove Det Snr Sgt Keane had omitted information provided by Mr Todd when he typed up the statement.
Crown lawyer Darrell Trim QC has objected to the tape being used in evidence and claimed Mr Todd and Mr Sands' legal team could have committed an offence under the Listening Devices Act by seeking to do so.
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