SA: Snowtown suppressions partially lifted by Supreme Court

AAP General News (Australia)
12-21-2000
SA: Snowtown suppressions partially lifted by Supreme Court

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The Crown prosecution's bodies-in-barrels murder case has alleged four of the 10 victims
lived with one or other of the accused when they disappeared.

The claim was made in an opening address to the Adelaide Magistrates Court suppressed
until today.

The Crown alleges five of eight deceased people found in disused bank vaults in Snowtown,
150km north of Adelaide, probably died from strangulation or asphyxiation.

Two more bodies were found later in a north suburban Adelaide backyard.

Four men have not entered pleas to charges of murdering 10 people.

The accused's committal hearing began last week but Magistrate DAVID GURRY suppressed
the Crown's opening address and also the evidence of three pathologists.

Today, the South Australian Supreme Court partially lifted the opening address suppression
after an appeal from lawyers representing 13 media outlets.

Justice BRIAN MARTIN says suppression orders on the evidence of the three pathologists
who performed post mortems on the 10 alleged victims will remain.

Justice MARTIN kept suppressed parts of the Crown's opening before releasing an edited
transcript to the media this afternoon.

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KEYWORD: SNOWTOWN (ADELAIDE)

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