Forensicwx
Final Roll Call 4153. STLCO 10-42 10/13 @ 1519
https://www.theguardian.com/austral...f-lynette-daley-after-independent-case-reviewTwo men have been charged over the death of Lynette Daley after a sexual encounter on a northern New South Wales beach five years ago.
The fresh charges against Daley’s one-time boyfriend Adrian Attwater and his friend Paul Maris follow an independent review of the caseafter an original prosecution of the men was dropped in 2012.
Attwater, 42, has been charged with manslaughter and aggravated sexual assault, and Maris, 46, with an accessory after the fact to manslaughter and aggravated sexual assault.
Daley, 33, a mother of seven also known as “Norma”, bled to death from a ruptured artery in her vaginal tract after going camping overnight with the men on Ten Mile Beach near Iluka in January 2011.
A coronial inquest in 2014 heard allegations the men, who had been drinking with Daley over three days before her death, burned a blood-soaked mattress and the woman’s clothing before calling for help from paramedics.
The men both gave an account of consensual “wild sex” with the heavily intoxicated Daley, whose injuries were, according to a forensic pathologist, “more severe than those which occur in even precipitous childbirth”.
But it was a separate injury – a “jagged” 45mm laceration on the outside of her vagina – that would likely have left Norma in extreme pain in her final conscious moments, the pathologist told the inquest.
The NSW director of public prosecutions, Lloyd Babb, declined to lay fresh charges in the wake of the inquest but reopened the case after an appeal in February by the attorney general, Gabrielle Upton.
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-22/lynette-daley-two-men-charged-over-death-/7534782Daley was found naked, bruised, and bloodied and an autopsy later found she died from blunt force genital tract trauma.
Forensic pathologists found her blood alcohol concentration to be dangerously high, 0.352, in the potentially lethal range of intoxication.
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