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Gerard Baden-Clay lodges appeal after being convicted of murder

The legal team representing Gerard Baden-Clay have filed an appeal against his murder conviction.
Gerard Baden-Clay his late wife Alison on their wedding day.

Allison and Gerard Baden-Clay on their wedding day.

Mr Baden-Clay was convicted of murdering his wife, Allison, just two days ago.

A jury of 12 unanimously declared Mr Baden-Clay guilty, after a trial involving more than 70 witnesses.

He was sentenced to life in jail.

However, Mr Baden-Clay’s lawyers say a miscarriage of justice has occurred.

They say the fact that traces of Allison’s blood in a car was only relevant if the jury was satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the presence of blood was “attributable to an injury sustained to the deceased’s body on the evening of 19th April 2012 or the morning of 20th April 2012”.

In other words, the blood may have come from another injury to Allison, totally unrelated to her death.

Mr Baden-Clay’s legal team also argue that the judge Justice John Byrne erred in his instructions to the jury, regarding Mr Baden-Clay’s alleged attempted to disguise marks on his face by deliberately making razor cuts.

Legal experts have also raised questions about an approach made by a Channel Nine reporter to one of the jurors, during the trial. The juror reported the approach to the judge.

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