I guess the question many people will be wondering is how can someone be charged with murder, only to have the charge dropped six years later? From Breeana’s family’s point of view, they might be feeling let down. After all, they were misled from the start and allowed to get their hopes up, only to be left waiting for so long, and eventually left disappointed at the eventual outcome. The real problem here is that they should have never been given that sort of misleading hope in the first place.
As much as this entire process has been horrendous for me to go through, I do feel sorry for the family in the way they were not able to properly grieve until more than decade after Breeana’s death. I was able to process the entire event of her suicide because I was present when it happened. There was no speculation. No mystery and no unanswered questions about what happened to her. Sure. There were the inevitable questions about why it happened, but as much as it was horrendous for me, I was thankful for knowing what happened so that I could process my grief properly with all the facts.
What I didn’t expect was despite the overwhelming evidence supporting my story that Breeana ended up over the balcony railing, before falling to her death by her own doing, the Police and the coroner failed to complete their straight forward jobs and made an absolute mess of the entire case.
As soon as Breeana died, I assisted the Police in every way I could so that they and Breeana’s family had all the answers. I went to the station and gave DNA samples, fingerprints, and was forensically examined so that they could match all details from our apartment to me and Breeana and piece it all together. I gave a detailed statement to Police outlining exactly what happened and the police had possession of our unit for over 18 hours so they could thoroughly examine the scene and recreate what happened.
All of this was provided to the coroner, yet somehow the coroner was unable to put two and two together. This is extremely worrying for our country if this is the level of incompetence demonstrated by our coronial system and its staff.
The fact the media then got involved and waged a misguided smear campaign against me was where the case against me began to fall apart for the crown. Because of the misleading coverage of the case, the pressure mounted on the Police who then let their emotions guide them rather than the facts. Why else would anyone trained to see logic rather than let emotions rule their decisions make such a mess of the most straight forward of cases.
Here’s some of the atrocities of the police case:
MANIPULATION OF EVIDENCE & POSSIBLE PERJURY.
The police submitted not one, but three separate biomechanics reports to the brief of evidence. The second and the third reports were sort because the first expert developed dementia shortly after giving the report and the police’s second report didn’t support their theory that Breeana was thrown from the balcony. The issue was that all of the experts of who the taxpayers’ paid tens of thousands of dollars each for were given the wrong information by Police. In each case, the police stated that Breeana landed parallel to the building. (Her feet and head running parallel). As it was revealed in the committal hearing, Breeana actually landed perpendicular to the building. With her feet closest to the building and her head further at away. The difference being that in the first instance it may have been presumed that she was thrown, where as in the latter case, it was obvious that she stepped off or jumped. Now whether or not the police mislead the biomechanics experts on purpose is something we may never know. I would like to think that they were simply incompetent, but given the way that the detectives misled the courts and ignored crucial evidence, it’s more than likely the that someone in the police force has committed perjury.
OMMISION OF CRUCIAL EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THEIR CASE
During the forensic examination of our unit the police discovered that one of our balcony chairs was placed against the railing of our balcony. On the arms of that chair were Breeana’s fingerprints. On the same point of the railing, adjacent to where the chair was placed were also Breeana’s fingerprints. On the railing her fingerprints were both facing outward (like she was at some point on the inside of the railing) and also on the outside (only possible if she was at some point holding on from the outside of the railing). This was the place on the balcony that Breeana climbed over and jumped. The interesting point the forensic team brought up during the committal hearing was that on Breeana’s left-hand finger prints from the inside of the railing, were on a 45-degree angle (or there abouts) which clearly demonstrated that at some point Breeana was holding onto the railing while in the process of climbing from the inside to the outside. It was also advised that my fingerprints were not on either the chair or the railing.
BLATENT DISREGARD OF FORENSIC EVIDENCE
As part of Breeana’s body being forensically examined, the forensic officer concluded that there was none of my DNA on Breeana and she bore no marks or scratches that would have suggested any sign of a struggle. This was also the case when they examined me. I had no marks or scratches on me straight after the event when they examined me only an hour or so after her death. The forensic officer concluded that “none of the defendants DNA was on the deceased or visa versa.” She also concluded that “there was no sign of a struggle.”
So why did they still proceed?
Despite these three major points, the police still went ahead and charged me with murder. This shows either a serious incompetence in our police force, or corruption beyond anything we have seen since the Fitzgerald Enquiry in the late 80’s. For the police to act with such disregard for the facts is disturbing but even more so concerning on a greater level because it is becoming more common in criminal cases of recent times.
I believe that in this case the police knew that they would never have to answer to their blatant disregard for justice, given that no one has any recourse for compensation in Queensland and decided to throw as much shit at the wall in the hope that some might stick.
Thankfully I had a great legal team who were able to see the incompetence and misleading evidence and expose it which eventually led to the murder charge being dropped. This however did not happen in the usual mandatory 6 month period after the committal where the Department of Public Prosecutions must decide whether or not to go to trial. Due to the incredible incompetence in the crown’s case the D.P.P asked for several extensions which stretched the before mentioned 6 months to almost 4 years. That said, the public should feel extremely confident in the fact that the D.P.P gave this case the most thorough examination any murder case in Queensland has ever been given and by coming to the conclusion that they had no case should be of great comfort to the public.
Unfortunately for me, the police incompetence not only cost me my reputation and six years of hell, but it also cost me $250,000 to expose their lies and deception. It is my opinion that this type of behaviour needs to stop, but regardless I am thankful that we have a fair and just judicial system in Australia where justice is almost always served correctly.
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