Defence questions motive of key witness offered $500,000 in bikie-linked murder trial

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The Adelaide jury in a bikie-linked murder trial has been asked to consider whether a potential $500,000 reward may have tainted the evidence of the prosecution's key witness.

A South Australian Supreme Court jury has been asked to consider whether a key witness in a bikie-linked murder trial is telling the truth and would have come forward without the offer of a reward.A jury was asked to consider the motivation of a key witness who was offered cash for giving evidenceMr De Ieso was gunned down at his Pooraka crash repair shop in 2012

$500,000 reward detailed in a letter by Detective Superintendent Des Bray of SA's Major Crime Investigation Branch. "It may well be, that if he hadn't been promised the reward, he would have never cooperated ever … this is an important issue."

 

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