Gordon Wood loses malicious prosecution appeal

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The state's highest court has ruled that Gordon Wood was not maliciously prosecuted for the murder of his girlfriend Caroline Byrne, rejecting his bid for a damages payout

, 24, by throwing her off a cliff at The Gap in Watsons Bay in June 1995. He was sentenced at the time to a minimum of 13 years in prison.

In documents filed in the Court of Appeal, Mr Wood's lawyers said Justice Fullerton ought to have found Mr Tedeschi acted maliciously because he knew he did not have "reasonable or probable cause" to initiate or maintain the prosecution. The court said "there was no error shown in the way [Justice Fullerton] dealt with the issue of malice" and she had engaged in a "painstaking" process of weighing the evidence "in a forensic and highly detailed" manner over 1,346 paragraphs in her written judgment.

 

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So the courts ruled he's innocent after being sent to prison....the media reports have nowhere been as intense at proclaiming that and so he can't claim compensation!?!? justice theLaw

So the courts ruled he's innocent after being sent to prison....the media reports have nowhere been as intense at proclaiming the and so he can't claim compensation!?!? justice theLaw

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