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Author of this page: Dr Robert N Moles
"As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors" William James

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Forensic Science and Forensic Pathology South Australia

2 July 2008 - The Advertiser - New forensic pathologist starts work in SA
28 August 2007 - Charles Gent - Dr Hilton Kobus moving from Forensic Science SA to new Professorial role at Flinders University
9 July 2007 - The Advertiser - Autopsy reports 'crisis'
23 January 2007 - Govt Media Release - Appointment of Dr Ross Vining, Director Forensic Science SA
9 January 2007 - ABC News - Prosecution waiting on autopsy report in murder case
29 June 2007 - The Advertiser - Pathologist [Evan Vernon-Roberts] on Porn Charge
23 June 2004 - The Advertiser - Melissa King - $3.1m more spent on staff at forensic science centre in Adelaide
4 March 2003 - The Advertiser - Parents sue over removed baby organs
16 March 1987 – The Advertiser – Letter to Editor - WJ Tilstone – Director of Forensic Science
27 March 1993 – The Advertiser – End of the line
Mortuary assistant Jock Mclean wears the mask and breathing apparatus used during autopsies on bodies carrying potentially lethal viruses. Colleague, Rick Carter, stands alongside a dissecting table. Steel-link gloves reduce the risk of a scalpel injury and possible infection. Steel racks in the mortuary cold room can accommodate up to 136 bodies. A mortuary seems a macabre place but Leanne Weir discovered it to be a fascinating place of compassion, purpose and science
28 August 1992 – Advertiser – Key witness died of haaemorrhage
The key witnes to a murder trial died in the Adelaide Remand Centre from a cerebral haemorrhage, the Coroner's Court heard yesterday. Forensic pathologist Dr Colin Manock to the court Kenneth Albert Edward Hill, 42, died on February 9 of a severe haemorrhage at the base of the brain, the result of a developmental abnormality
9 July 1992 – Advertiser – Probe into death after transplant
The last hours of a young mother who died in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital after a kidney transplant came under close scrutiny in the Coroner's Court yesterday. Ms Corinna Lee Smoker, 22, of Pooraka, died following a heart attack at about 5pm on December 13 last year, only hours after she succcessfully received her sister's kidney. Her de facto husband, Mr Andrew Pointon, said Ms Smoker's kidneys began failing after the birth of their daughter in December 1986
29 January 1992 – News – 7 shots failed to kill seige man
Shootout sparked police arms and training change, inquest told. A man involved in a police shoot out at Kingswood, last May was shot 6 times in the back and once through the knee by police marksmen before allegedly turning his rifle on himself, the Coroner's Court has been told
23 October 1991 - Advertiser - Epileptic died "after struggle with police"
a 39 year old Aboriginal man probably would not have died if a struggle with police had not occurred, State Coroner Mr Kevin Ahern has been told
19 December 1990 - Advertiser - Baby girl died after drug overdose error
A baby died in the Adelaide Children's Hospital from a drug overdose after doctors misread or failed to fully read instructions relating to her medication, the Coroner, Mr Kevin Ahern, said yesterday
23 November 1990 - Advertiser - Mother haunted by child's death
A mother whose 17 month old daughter died after an apparent drug overdose in the Adelaide Children's Hospital (ACH) described yesterday how she was entrapped by the tragedy of losing her child. And one of the doctors who cared for her bany said that if he had lost his child it would be like a part of himself had died. The comments were made on the second day of an inquest into the death of Bernice Lavina Sorrell, who died on May 7 this year, two days after she was admitted to hospital
22 November 1990 - Advertiser - Inquest told drug killed baby
It appeared a 17 month old baby had died in the Adelaide Children's Hospital after she was given five times the appropriate medication, the Coroner's Court was told yesterday. The evidence was given by Dr Colin Manock, senior director of forensic pathology, at the start of an inquest into the death of Bernice Lavina Sorrell
21 November 1990 - News - SA baby's fatal drug dose. Coroner probes hospital tragedy
An unfortunate fold in an instruction leaflet might have caused a South Australian baby to be given a fatal does of a malaria drug four times the maximum allowed, the Coroner was told today. Mr Barry Ahern is conducting an inquest into the death of Bernice Sorrel, 18 months, who died after being treated for malaria at Adelaide Children's Hospital in May
14 November 1990 - Advertiser - Man "may have been tortured to death"
A 76 year old man described as "a popular little fella" was stabbed to death, and possibly tortured, in his Hendon home in 1988, the Coroner's Court heard yesteday
16 August 1988 - Advertiser - Coroner and police under fire
The State Coroner and SA police have been severely criticised over their investigations of the death of an Aborigine in Adelaide Gaol. The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody also has been told it is "highly probable" the State Government's pathologist's finding on the cause of death was wrong

The Adelaide Review

31 July 2008 - Adelaide Review - Correction and letter from Dr Bob Moles
26 June 2008 - Adelaide Review - One wrong righted, another done
12 November 2004 - The Adelaide Review - Premise trips over the law – and common sense. [Review of "A state of injustice" by Bob Moles]

Media Articles

See the Defamation Homepage for articles on Cannon [Deputy Chief Magistrate] v Atkinson [Attorney-General]

25 September 2008 - The Australian - Roger Rogerson favour humiliates ex-cop
17 August 2008 - Adelaide Now - Roger Radford attempts to have case re-opened
22 May 2008 - The Australian - Conflict claims in pedophile defamation
14 March 2008 - The Australian - Federal A-G plans to help break deadlock
15 February 2008 - The Australian - Hit-run pair fail in bid to stay charges
29 January 2008 - The Advertiser - Lawyer's poodle killed on beach
It seems quite remarkable to many people living in South Australia, that whilst the State's only daily newspaper can report on the death of a poodle, it did not regard the decision by the Medical Board of South Australia to prosecute the State's Director of Forensic Pathology for 30 years for negligence / incompetence as worthy of mention. However, as you can see from the item below, that same matter did get coverage in Australia's national paper, The Australian.
30 December 2007 - Daily Telegraph - David Hicks must renounce terrorism, says human rights lawyer
24 December 2007 - The Advertiser - Hicks may talk on release
14 December 2007 - The Advertiser - Dennis Hood apologises to Judge Marie Shaw
23 November 2007 - The Australian - Officers dismissed threat of gunman
6 November 2007 - Adelaide Now - Judge 'too lenient' on Overall Bandits
24 October 2007 - Sydney Morning Herald - Hicks 'gagging' a rights abuse: MP
30 August 2007 - NineMSN - Possible lead in Beaumont children case
23 August 2007 - Adelaide Now - Labor rejects corruption watchdog
22 August 2007 - The Advertiser - More delays for the McGee trial
16 August 2007 - Adelaide Now - Major Crime chief quits
7 August 2007 - Govt Media Release - Changes in double jeopardy law
7 August 2007 - The Advertiser - Judge Sydney Tilmouth charged in Domestic violence
22 June 2007 - SA Democrats Media Release - Call for Independent Commission Against Corruption
4 May 2007 - Independent Weekly - Kevin Naughton to take political role
5 December 2006 - The Australian - Criminal defamation: DPP takes dismissed case to highest court
12 November 2006 - Sunday Mail Nigel Hunt - possible progress on church abuse process
26 February 2006 - Sunday Mail - Kevin Naughton on church abuse process stalled
29 January 2005 - The Advertiser - Courts `lag behind' rest of the nation
17 June 2002 - ABC 7.30 Report - Kerry O'Brien interviews Chief Justice John Doyle - Judicial Standards
15 March 1995 – The Advertiser – Man's [Mixon] violent death - court told of struggle
30 January 1993 – Advertiser – Hospital criticised over hanging death
A missing Hillcrest Hospital patient may have been dead for up to 48 hours before his body was found hanging in a hospital wardrobe, the acting State Coroner said yesterday

Medical Board of South Australia

Complaints to the Medical Board commencing October 2002

South Australian Law Reports

2008 - Physiotherapy Board Of SA & anor v Heywood-Smith [2008] SASC 253
7 April 2008 - Coronial Inquiry - shooting death of Christopher Stuart Wilson
K-Generation Pty Ltd & Anor v Liquor Licensing Court & Anor [2007] SASC 319Judgment of Duggan J and Vanstone J
K-Generation Pty Ltd & Anor v Liquor Licensing Court & Anor [2007] SASC 319Judgment of Gray J - dissenting - part one - Introduction and Background
K-Generation Pty Ltd & Anor v Liquor Licensing Court & Anor [2007] SASC 319Judgment of Gray J - dissenting - part two - Is Judicial Review available for a Breach of Procedural Fairness?
K-Generation Pty Ltd & Anor v Liquor Licensing Court & Anor [2007] SASC 319Judgment of Gray J - dissenting - part three - State Legislation and State Courts
Webster v The State Of South Australia [2003] SASC 347 - dissenting judgments
Webster v The State Of South Australia [2003] SASC 347 - majority judgments
Medical Board v Marzola [1985] 39 SASR 429

National Crime Authority bombing

17 September 1999 - ABC 7:30 Report - SA coroner's findings on NCA bomber
1 July 1999 - The Advertiser - Dr Kobus: The NCA Bombing Inquest - Perre Evidence ‘Contaminated’

Bevan Spencer Von Einem - the "family murders"

4 May 2008 - Sunday Mail - Police seek Von Einem Associate
2 April 2008 - The Advertiser - Family Murders – DNA testing
30 March 2008 - Sunday Mail - DNA tests for Family murder suspects
1998 - Von Einem - Supreme Court South Australia - Decision of AG on petition not reviewable

3 March 1988 - The Advertiser – Andrew Male
This article refers to the deaths of Langley, Barnes, Muir, Stogneff – they had been drugged, sexually assaulted, they had died and they were all young. The article refers to Dr Manock, Dr Ross James and Bob Locan as forensic specialists involved with the investigation
Langley aged 18 was found at Mount Lofty on 9 March 1982
Barnes aged 17 was found at the South Para Reservoir on 24 June 1979
Muir aged 25 was found on the banks of the Port River in August 1979
Stogneff aged 14 was found at middle beach on 23 June 1982.
Dr Manock and Dr James had reported that Langley, Barnes and Muir had been sexually abused. A blunt instrument had been forced into their rectums which would have given rise to a huge blood loss and subsequent death. It was estimated that they would have been alive for up to an hour after injuries were made. It was said that Muir and Stogneff had been dismembered.
Dr Manock said the victims had been killed and then cleaned up. All 3 bodies had been washed while Langley and Barnes may have been re-dressed after death.
Dr Lokum said that Barnes, Muir and Langley's bodies had traces of sedative drugs – chloral hydrate – which would have been hypnotic and sedative. When mixed with alcohol it made what was called a "Mickey Finn". Langley had Mandrax

South Australian Miscarriage of Justice cases

Go here for pamphlets on a selected range of our cases

The Aboriginal deaths in custody Royal Commission cases

The Dr Allan Cala Homepage
reports indicate that the death of the Weightman's in NSW was murder and not accident as originally thought

The Dr Colin Manock Homepage

The Stacey Brown Homepage
A terrible story of a young girl being shot in the head. Even the Solicitor-General says that the story accepted by the DPP was inconsistent with the forensic evidence

The Aitken Family Homepage
Scott Aitken drove his four wheel drive car off a cliff, killing two of his children. Whilst he avoided a prison sentence, his family feel very agrieved

The Baby DeathsHomepage
A tragic tale of the deaths of three babies. The cause of their deaths had been misdiagnosed

The Henry Keogh Homepage
A story of justice delayed and justice denied. An important case which will prove to be one of the most important miscarriages of justice in Australian legal history

The Michael Penney Homepage
Mr Penney was convicted of the attempted murder of his wife by setting fire to the boot of the car which she was driving at the time

The Dawn Rowan Homepage
Defamed - won - and bankrupted over her work and her women's shelters

The Gerald Warren Homepage
The body of Gerald Warren was found on a dirt track outside Port Augusta. It was said that he had died from injuries which may have been accidental. He was subsequently found to have been beaten to death

The Peter Marshall Homepage
It was initially suggested that Peter Marshall had fallen out of bed and hit his head. The following day at autopsy it was discovered that he had been shot in the head through an open window

The Terry Akritidis Homepage
The body of Terry Akritidis was found at a remote location beside a police communications tower. It was said that he had committed suicide. Many questions remain unanswered about the quality of the autopsy and of the police investigation

The Kingsley Dixon Homepage John Highfold was an aboriginal man who died in custody. The subsequent Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody found that various aspects of the autopsy and investigation to be unsatisfactory
To review the other Aboriginal deaths in custody cases from the Royal Commisson - go here

The Derek Bromley Homepage
Derek Bromley was convicted of the murder of Stephen Docoza in 1984. Questions have been raised by Bromley concerning the adequacy of the pathology evidence at his trial in his Petition to the Governor of South Australia

The John Highfold Homepage John Highfold was an aboriginal man who died in custody. The subsequent Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody found that various aspects of the autopsy and investigation to be unsatisfactory
To review the other Aboriginal deaths in custody cases from the Royal Commisson - go here

The Mrs Emily Perry Homepage
Mrs Emily Perry was convicted of the attempted murder of her husband by poisoning him. She was sentenced to 15 years hard labour. The High Court in allowing her appeal said that the forensic evidence against her 'was not fit to be taken into consideration'.

The David Szach Homepage
David Szach was convicted of the murder of the lawyer Derrance Stephenson with whom he was in a relationship. It was said that Szach shot Stephenson and put his body in the freezer at his home in Adelaide

The Edward Splatt Homepage
Edward Splatt was convicted of the murder of 77 year old Mrs Emelia Simper at her home. The prosecution case rested on some 27 items of forensic and scientific evidence. At the end of the Royal Commission some years later, not one of them was found to be without error

The Frits Van Beelen Homepage
Frits Van Beelen was convicted of the murder of Deborah Leach on Taperoo Beach. It proved to be one of the longest criminal trials and appeals in South Australia's history. It seems likely that they got the wrong result

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