ABC: Susan Neill-Fraser loses appeal against murder conviction over 2009 Bob Chappell disappearance
by Loretta Lohberger, ABC
Hobart woman Susan Neill-Fraser’s appeal against her murder conviction has been dismissed by the Court of Criminal Appeal.
The appeal is 67-year-old Neill-Fraser’s second, and was made possible after a law change in 2015.
Neill-Fraser’s daughters and a group of supporters, including former premier Lara Giddings attended the Supreme Court in Hobart for the judgment.
The appeal centred on questions about how the DNA of a then homeless teenager, Meaghan Vass, came to be found on the deck of the Four Winds.
At the 2010 trial, Ms Vass told the jury she did not remember ever being on or near the yacht at the time of Mr Chappell’s disappearance, and could not remember where she was on the night of January 26, 2009.
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