The former prisoner is asking for damages claiming misconduct by multiple police meant he was unable to get a fair trial over the murder of Gary Silk and Rodney Miller.
In 2020, the Court of Appeal deemed Roberts’ trial a miscarriage of justice, quashed his convictions and ordered a retrial.in 1998, to which he pleaded guilty.
Robinson Gill principal lawyer Jeremy King, who is representing Roberts, said the 24-year saga warranted forensic analysis.“I think it’s important to recognise that this case is far from over,” King said.“We are going to put them under a spotlight and make sure that they are held accountable for what happened to Jason.”Roberts’ acquittal shocked Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Shane Patton, a friend of Silk, who described the outcome of the 2022 retrial as “disappointing”.
It alleges multiple police statements were replaced before the 2002 trial and the originals were never found.Roberts claims he is entitled to aggravated and exemplary damages because of the wrongful conduct of police. Police conduct surrounding the transcribing of bugged recordings of Debs and Roberts from about October 1999 to mid-2000, when the pair were arrested, is also cited in the writ.
Lorimer released a digital image to the media, known as a “facefit”, and Sheridan described the image as “the younger of the two killers”. Roberts was questioned and released by taskforce investigators only to be arrested again on August 15, 2000 and charged with murdering Silk and Miller.
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