David Eastman cleared of Canberra police chief's murder in dramatic retrial

Economist spent 19 years in jail for the 1989 assassination of Colin Winchester

David Eastman, a man who spent 19 years behind bars for the assassination of the Australian Capital Territory’s police chief, has been cleared of the crime in a dramatic retrial.

The verdict marks the end of another chapter in a case that has consumed Canberra since the night of 10 January 1989, when Colin Winchester was shot to death as he got out of his car outside his Deakin home.

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