Would-be serial killer appeals for Perth teen murder conviction to be thrown out

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Lawyers for Jemma Lilley, who was found guilty of stabbing a teenage boy to death before burying his body in a backyard, argue inadmissible evidence was allowed at her trial.

At their Supreme Court trial in 2017, both women claimed it was the other who murdered Mr Pajich, with Lilley saying she was asleep when he was garrotted and stabbed.

Today she took her case to three judges in the Court of Appeal where her barrister, Simon Watters, argued that evidence about a book his client wrote when she was 16 years old should not have been put before the jury. Mr Watters said the text of the book and the words spoken by the main character — which were written years before Aaron Pajich was murdered — bore no resemblance to his manner of death and therefore should have been ruled inadmissible."It talks about a male serial killer and in effect is in past tense — what has been done, not what will be done.

 

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