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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
TWO assistant police commissioners involved in the wrongful conviction of a Perth man have been demoted by WA police chief Karl O'Callaghan.Mal Shervill and David Caporn, detective-sergeants at the time of the 1994 murder of Perth jeweller Pamela Lawrence, have lost their assistant commissioner roles and will be demoted to a lower rank if they don't retire. A spokesman for the commissioner...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
ANDREW Mallard, who spent almost 12 years in jail after being wrongfully convicted of the murder of Pamela Lawrence, has filed a civil writ against the state of WA.
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
... for justice and a fair outcome.'' Mr Mallard was convicted in May 1994 of murdering Perth jeweller Pamela Lawrence, but was freed when the High Court quashed his conviction in 2005. He has filed a writ in the Western Australian Supreme Court against 15 defendants, including eight police officers, the chief forensic pathologist, his psychiatrist, the police commissioner, the police...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 13/10/2008
Just hours before he died in May 2006, Rochford was named on the ABC's nightly news bulletin as the prime suspect in the 1994 murder of Mosman Park jeweller Pamela Lawrence. A week earlier he had been interviewed by police, who later told him he was their new, key suspect in Ms Lawrence's killing. In a report on Rochford's death, West Australian deputy coroner Evelyn Vicker says...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 13/10/2008
The front wall of Labor MP John Quigley’s Trigg home and his boat have been tagged with “child molester John Quigly” mispelled in red paint. Mr Quigley is blaming ‘corrupt cops’ and his connections with the Mallard case for the graffiti attack, according to the ABC. Andrew Mallard spent almost 12 years in jail for the 1994 murder of Mosman Park jeweller Pamela Lawrence before the High...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
... Mr Shervill and then deputy director of public prosecutions Ken Bates over their roles in the 1994 Pamela Lawrence murder investigation, which resulted in Mr Mallard's wrongful conviction. Mr Dunford recommended disciplinary proceedings against the trio, which have already been instigated. But Mr Mallard said that was not enough and he was seeking an independent QC's opinion on whether...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
... prosecution and appeals of Andrew Mallard, whose conviction for the 1994 murder of Perth jeweller Pamela Lawrence was quashed in 2005 by the High Court. Mr Mallard spent 12 years in jail before walking free in 2006 after the High Court found there had been a miscarriage of justice. The CCC report tabled in the West Australian parliament today listed four findings of misconduct against...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
The Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) investigation by John Dunford, QC, centred on the prosecution and appeals of Andrew Mallard, whose conviction for the 1994 murder of Perth jeweller Pamela Lawrence was quashed in 2005 by the High Court.
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
The Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) will release the report on five senior police officers into their investigation of the murder of WA jeweller Pamela Lawrence. The CCC investigation by John Dunford QC centred on the prosecution and appeals of Andrew Mark Mallard whose conviction for the 1994 murder of Pamela Lawrence was quashed by the High Court in 2005. Mr Mallard...
