Colin Winchester’s murder and how the case against David Eastman collapsed

Eastman was convicted of the murder in 1995, had the conviction quashed in 2014, faced a retrial – and has now been found not guilty

The courtroom was eerily quiet on the day David Eastman’s murder conviction began to unravel.

It was late summer 2014 and, outside the walls of the ACT supreme court, the city was flooding. Torrential rain and wild storms were bringing trees crashing down on to houses, flooding schools, swelling stormwater drains and grounding flights.

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