en years. Ten bloody years. + Crime Jeez. Geoff Levick leans back and thinks how long he’s been Tworking on Mark Lundy’s case and smiles a bit. It was never meant to take this long – hell, it was never meant to take half this long – to appeal Lundy’s conviction for murdering his wife Christine and seven-year-old daughter Amber. A High Court jury and then the Appeal Court both said Lundy axed his family to death with a tomahawk, an attack so furied and fed by hatred that the scene was a bloodbath. But that notion never stacked up for Levick and a very small group who con­ tinued to support Lundy. So they set to work, got all the documents, picked away at the case’s improbabilities, contradictions and fallacies, all the while becoming more convinced that this was one of the country’s greatest miscarriages of justice. There was help along the way, from lawyers working for free and experts here and overseas who were aghast at the science on which Lundy had been convicted. As far back as 2007, Levick had documented the case’s pitfalls in a compelling draft and felt they were almost ready to file an appeal. But nothing happens as expected in cases such as these, nothing moves as quickly as wanted. So here we are now, 10 years after Lundy’s conviction and the Court of Appeal’s decision to uphold it and, at last, a new appeal has been filed. In the coming weeks, all Levick’s work will be considered by the judges of the Privy Police allege Lundy made a 300km round trip between his Petone motel (top) and his Council, 20,000km from his home Palmerston North home (above), much of it during rush hour, as well as committing and a world away from the blood-stained the murders and disposing of the evidence – all in less than three hours. Despite bedroom in Karamea Cres, Palmerston North, numerous attempts, nobody has been able to complete the drive in this time. where Christine and Amber were discovered on the morning of August 30, 2000.

he day before, on Tuesday, August The police scenario was that Lundy had and pathologists pinpointed the time of death The case of Mark Lundy, 29, 2000, Mark Lundy, then 41 got into financial trouble with a land pur- at between 7pm and 7.15pm. convicted of murdering his and the owner of a business sup- chase and murdered Christine to claim her Having somehow convinced Christine to Tplying kitchen sinks and benches, life insurance. Amber witnessed the attack do this – despite having already booked into wife and daughter in 2000, is drove from his house to Wellington on so also had to be killed, they hypothesised. his motel; despite Christine and Amber’s Lundy’s business. He checked into a Petone motel, It took six months for police to arrest favourite television programme, Shortland set to be reviewed by the Privy having clients to see the next day before Lundy, and in that time they’d settled on an Street, being on at 7pm; despite Amber not Council. Mike White reveals the returning home. explanation of how he’d committed the crime. usually being in bed at this time; despite remarkable Kiwi team behind But police claimed that shortly after 5.30pm At 5.30pm on that Tuesday, Christine and Christine having to do her brother’s GST Lundy made a wild drive 150km back home Amber had phoned Lundy in Petone saying return that evening; despite it being much Last his appeal and the mounting to murder Christine and Amber, then sped that Amber’s Pippins (Guides) group had more logical to make the trip home later if evidence that suggests Lundy back to Petone by 8.29pm, where later that been cancelled and they were going to have a romantic tryst was desired; despite hav- night, he hired a prostitute for sex. The McDonald’s for dinner. Supposedly, Lundy ing to be back in Wellington the next day was wrongly convicted. next day Lundy carried on with his normal told Christine he was coming home for sex – police argued Lundy set off in rush-hour Chance? business calls until alerted that police were and convinced her to be in bed by 7pm. This traffic to race home. swarming over his house, whereupon he bizarre interpretation was necessary because Cellphone records confirm Lundy had a MIKE WHITE is a north & south senior writer. raced home and feigned grief. Christine’s body was found naked in bed window of just under three hours to drive

56 | NORTH & SOUTH | JANUARY 2013 NORTH & SOUTH | JANUARY 2013 | 57 the blood off him – in such a secret place they sentenced to including 17 have never been found; and run back 500m years without . The Court of Appeal to his car. Then he had to drive at speeds increased this to 20 years. averaging 120km/h to get back to Petone. Public opinion was sated. Virtually nobody Police tried to recreate the journey and believed Lundy was innocent – his over-the- never managed the drive in under three hours top theatrics at Christine and Amber’s funeral – let alone everything else he had to do. And and his hiring of a hooker were enough to their attempts were never in rush hour. Other convict him in most people’s minds. Stories attempts to achieve the 300km drive in the of his heavy drinking and big-mouth bragging time required have never got remotely close. only added to popular distaste. The Crown, however, insisted it must have Without the choirboy image of David Bain been possible, despite no other travellers or and a high-profile champion like Joe Karam, police having seen Lundy’s car travelling at Lundy’s case quickly disappeared from head- the incredible speeds that were necessary. lines, clutched onto by only a few individu- Somehow the jury also believed it was als convinced the evidence didn’t exist, had possible. And at the heart of that “somehow” been twisted or was just plain wrong. were two tiny specks of tissue found on a polo-shirt in Lundy’s car. The murder was hen Geoff Levick first learnt so violent that blood sprayed over the of the journey Lundy had to bedroom walls and ceiling, creating a shadow make within three hours, he David Hislop, an expat New Zealander where the killer stood. Despite Lundy’s couldn’t believe police would and Queen’s Counsel in the UK, has W been another key figure in bringing glasses, wedding ring, shoes and car being be able to convince a jury Lundy was the Lundy’s case to the Privy Council. tested for blood and nothing having been murderer. “I remember saying to my wife, initially by Auckland barristers Barry Hart found, police seized on the two faint stains ‘They’re going to have to stitch this guy up and Richard Earwaker. on the shirt’s left sleeve and chest pocket. because you just can’t do the trip in that time Levick had drafted a comprehensive appeal Testing suggested there was a high proba- – it’s just absolutely impossible.’” to the Privy Council by 2007 but felt their bility they contained Christine Lundy’s DNA. Levick’s certainty came from years of lawyers were making little progress and by Levick knew it was a long shot but figured After initially being told by world experts having made a virtually identical journey to late 2008 was reaching the end of his tether. McLinden’s awareness of the case might be there was no way of identifying exactly what that Lundy was said to have made to kill his In February 2009, North & South published enough to make him read an email. McLin- type of tissue the stains were, police were wife and daughter. Levick is now an Auckland an 18-page article (by this writer) on the case, den did just that, and asked for more pointed to a pathologist in Dallas, Texas, horse breeder, but between 1975 and 1996 he questioning the evidence that led to Lundy’s details. who claimed he was capable of conducting owned a company importing chemicals and conviction. It raised strong doubts about the In early 2011, McLinden advised Levick such testing. Rodney Miller tested the shirt plastic raw materials. Visiting clients, he time of death being 7pm as the pathologists that, due to his wife’s illness, he couldn’t take stains using a technique called immuno­ would drive between Unilever’s factory in and police insisted, and called into question on Lundy’s case. “But rather than just wash histochemistry and confidently asserted Petone near the motel Lundy stayed at, and whether the specks found on Lundy’s shirt his hands and say, ‘I can’t help you anymore,’ they were brain tissue. James Hardie’s premises in Palmer­ston North, were actually brain tissue. he said, ‘I’ll find someone else.’ That was a Immunohistochemistry (IHC) is a test which was 400m from the Lundys’ house. Following this, lawyers Christopher very strong gesture,” recalls Levick. used in cancer diagnosis and research labo- He made the trip dozens of times, nearly Stevenson and Keith Becker offered their McLinden approached David Hislop, an- ratories to help establish what cells are pre- always around lunchtime when traffic was services pro-bono to take the case to appeal. other expat New Zealander and QC working sent. However, it had never been done on much lighter than the rush hour Lundy was Given how slow progress had been until then, in the UK, who he’d known for 15 years. The fabric before, nor on a sample five months said to have taken off in. It always took him Levick gladly accepted their offer. first thing McLinden did was show him old; usually all samples are tissues prepared between 1 hour 50 minutes and 1 hour 55 Stevenson was optimistic an appeal could North & South’s story and Hislop found him- specifically and swiftly for IHC testing – minutes. be filed by the end of 2009, but again Levick self particularly fascinated with the brain Geoff Levick has devoted 10 years of his life to proving Mark Lundy’s which is why other experts declined to help, After Lundy’s conviction, he saw an item sat waiting while the lawyers fitted Lundy’s tissue and computer-tampering evidence. innocence and swears he won’t stop until he’s acquitted. not believing it was possible. in about a small case around other work. Despite having been in the UK for more At trial however, Miller’s apparently group in Palmerston North who maintained “And 2009 came and went and we started than 20 years, Hislop still considers himself ground-breaking test proved the most con- Lundy was innocent. Wanting to know more, getting into 2010 – January, February, a New Zealander “in every way. I’m fero- to Palmerston North, complete the murders vincing element of the Crown case. How else Levick travelled to Palmerston North in early March, April... still nothing was done, still ciously patriotic… when the All Blacks are and get back to Petone. could Christine Lundy’s brain tissue have got 2003 and met with the handful of support- nothing was finalised. So I started getting playing, our house stands still.” As well as the 300km round trip, Lundy had onto her husband’s shirt unless he was the ers, who included Lundy’s father. seriously frustrated and in October 2010 I As well as Hislop, McLinden put Levick in to park 500m away from his house; run to his killer? The defence claimed contamination Over the following months and years they decided to contact a barrister in London touch with Malcolm Birdling, another New home through a busy suburban area; or even police planting, and the only witness examined the trial transcripts, got police who I thought would at least know some- Zealand lawyer, who was completing a PhD manipulate the family’s computer to make it it called on the issue had limited knowledge documents and notebooks that hadn’t been thing about the case.” at Oxford University looking at wrongful look like it was shut down later that night; of IHC and, crucially, hadn’t even examined disclosed to the defence and consulted with That barrister was John McLinden, a New convictions in New Zealand and the UK. murder Christine and Amber; steal a jewellery the slides that Miller claimed showed brain experts over crucial evidence. Zealand lawyer and Queen’s Counsel based McLinden and Birdling met at a Victoria Uni- box so it looked like a burglary; jemmy a back tissue. But with the death of several of the group’s in the United Kingdom. McLinden had been versity alumni meeting in 2006 and had window to make it appear like a break-in; In the end, Miller’s evidence proved members, the burden increasingly fell on approached by Lundy’s original defence worked together on a number of cases in- dispose of the jewellery box, jemmy bar and powerful and persuasive. After six weeks of Levick to continue the work. This not only team, Mike Behrens and Steve Winter, to cluding a murder appeal to the Privy Council murder weapon – as well as the cover-all evidence and seven hours of deliberation, included amassing and analysing the provide an opinion on how to proceed after from Jamaica. Birdling had also helped de- clothing and gloves he must have worn to keep the jury found Lundy guilty. He was evidence, but organising legal help, assisted losing at the Court of Appeal in 2002. fence lawyers Greg King and Christopher

58 | NORTH & SOUTH | JANUARY 2013 NORTH & SOUTH | JANUARY 2013 | 59 this English woman’s voice said, ‘Hello, I’m photographic evidence has been collated Professor Helen Whitwell and I’m here on to support a specific interpretation rather holiday in New Zealand and I saw the North than to permit objective evaluation.” & South magazine in the bookshop and it “It is not possible to use this experiment caught my eye so I bought it.’” to reach a reliable conclusion as to the iden- She noticed the story quoted an interna- tity of the material on the Lundy shirt.” tional expert on time of death, Bernard Sheard also noted the remarkable lack of Knight, who rubbished the pathologists’ blood cells or anything resembling them on claims the Lundys were killed at 7pm. what was supposedly brain tissue and high- Whitwell, a Home Office accredited foren- lighted the lack of adequate scientific con- sic pathologist for more than 20 years, knew trols employed by Miller. Knight well so phoned him in the UK. Knight Miller has always bullishly stood by his was well aware of the case and had Levick’s findings and has even publicly used this case phone number, which Whitwell rang, as an example of his skill. In 2008, he told eventually offering her help with the case North & South: “I can say with 100 per cent by saying, “So here I am.” certainty that the tissue on Mr Lundy’s shirt As Levick described it, “It was like manna was central nervous system tissue. Not from heaven.” 99.999 per cent certainty – 100 per cent… Over the past four years, Whitwell has re- Any appropriately trained pathologist or turned to New Zealand several times and has other scientist who examined the evidence re-examined the crucial laboratory slides from that I did and reviewed the immunostains Rodney Miller’s controversial IHC tests which that I performed would come to the same supposedly contained Christine Lundy’s brain conclusion that I did. If they did not, they tissue. After analysing the tissue – under are either incompetent, hopelessly naive or police supervision – Whitwell said she was unwilling to believe the truth.” unable to identify any brain cells at all. Such self-confidence looks set to be In a sworn affidavit she states: “This is a tested. minute fragment of tissue which probably Kevin Gatter, professor of pathology at represents cellular material [human or Oxford University, reviewed Miller’s work animal], however the nature of this cannot and the reports of Whitwell and Sheard. A be determined further… it is not possible to pathologist since 1980, a specialist in IHC for diagnose this as brain tissue.” more than 30 years and author of more than Regarding Miller’s tests, Whitwell was 450 refereed papers and three books on this GRAEME BROWN / MANAWATU STANDARD GRAEME BROWN / MANAWATU even harsher. “In my opinion, it is impossible and associated topics, Gatter reinforced that Lundy’s behaviour at Christine and Amber’s funeral was seen Geoff Levick’s ping-pong table has long been taken over as faux-grief and bad acting by many onlookers. to make any rational sense of the immuno­ IHC “is known to be potentially inconsistent by files and evidence relating to Lundy’s case. cytochemistry stains. I have very serious and unreliable, so must be performed and concerns about a sample which is so minute, interpreted with skill and rigour” – something first examined some 59 days following the others have highlighted given Miller’s novel deaths of the deceaseds.” approach. In North & South’s 2009 story, other ex- “The experimental protocols and control Stevenson with the Privy Council appeal of to grips with the often complex evidence in- perts also strongly questioned Miller’s tech- material used to evaluate the unknown speci- tablishment in 2004. Obtaining a hearing is the most compelling points, such as challeng- John Barlow, convicted of murdering Gene credibly quickly. nique, analysis and conclusions. One of those men in the instant case do not provide the difficult, winning an appeal is extremely rare, ing the supposed brain tissue evidence, can and Eugene Thomas in 1994, and had already “They’re just good, honest, decent people, was Otago University Associate Professor necessary data to permit meaningful inter- relying on proving there’s been a substantial be made. examined Lundy’s case for Stevenson. very intelligent, very experienced.” Philip Sheard, who has used IHC as a research pretation of the experimental results,” wrote . Another crucial area of the appeal is the In June 2011, Levick travelled to London to Hislop and Birdling agreed to take the case technique for more than 20 years. Gatter in an affidavit. “In these circumstances Only a handful of New Zealand criminal claim by police and the Crown that Christine meet Hislop, Birdling and McLinden, along pro bono, distilling all Levick’s material into Levick had contacted Sheard early in his it is not possible to use the experiment to cases have ever been successful there – in- and Amber were killed at 7pm. with a fourth expat New Zealand lawyer, Alan an appeal document and collating affida- investigations and over the following years reach a reliable conclusion as to the identity cluding the quashing of David Bain’s convic- James Pang, who conducted the post mor- Taylor, a solicitor who would act as agent for vits obtained from a host of experts over the relied on him to help understand complicated of the material on the Lundy shirt.” tion in 2007. Lundy’s appeal may well be the tem, claimed Christine and Amber’s stomachs any appeal to the Privy Council. Hislop had previous 18 months. scientific detail. “I must have driven him to As Lundy’s lawyers put it in the appeal, last New Zealand case heard there. were both “full” and there was no “gastric known Taylor, an Auckland Grammar old boy Levick returned to London in September total distraction with incessant questions,” the evidence of three Crown witnesses, in- The initial approach is now done by filing smell” caused when digestion starts. They like Levick, for 20 years and trusted his ex- 2012 to meet with Hislop and Taylor. And it says Levick. “And he never ever said, ‘Geoff, cluding Miller, “was fundamentally flawed a brief submission – generally no more than were known to have bought a large McDon- perience with the Privy Council. was during this meeting that Levick intro- I’m getting fed up with this, please nick off.’ such as to render his trial unfair. The jury 10 pages – outlining the case and the appeal ald’s meal at 5.43pm and the drive from there Levick remembers his nerves as he walked duced Hislop to one of the appellant’s most It’s truly remarkable.” were undoubtedly seriously misled by their grounds. If the judges agree to consider the to their home was approximately 10 minutes. into Hislop’s chambers, realising that all his crucial allies – a world authority on forensic Sheard also examined the slides from the evidence.” case further, a hearing is scheduled. A de- Christine Lundy took a short phone call at work in the past eight years was on the line. neuropathology, Helen Whitwell. polo-shirt which Miller claimed definitively cision often takes many months. The whole 6.56pm so she was clearly alive at this time. But he immediately felt at ease among the showed brain tissue, and is damning of ppeals to the Privy Council are process can easily take two years. At trial, Pang said the time of death was New Zealanders and never felt like a colonial hortly after North & South’s story on Miller’s work. In an affidavit, Sheard states: strictly regulated. The only New The enforced brevity of that initial approach within an hour of eating, approximately 7pm hick proffering a case of injustice to top Lon- the Lundy case appeared in January “It is my view that the results of the immuno­ Zealand cases that can be taken – 10 years’ work condensed into 10 pages – or 7.15pm at the latest. While Pang has sub- don lawyers. He also realised Hislop, sur- 2009, Geoff Levick was sitting at histochemical procedure permit no reliable Athere are those heard in the Court has been one of the most difficult things faced sequently sought to suggest this was just an rounded by files from Lundy’s case, had got S home when the phone rang. “And conclusion, and that the previously presented of Appeal prior to the Supreme Court’s es- by Levick and the lawyers. It has meant only educated estimate, in court he was quite

60 | NORTH & SOUTH | JANUARY 2013 NORTH & SOUTH | JANUARY 2013 | 61 However, after examining the family’s hile much of the appeal computer, police claimed it had been to the Privy Council is manipulated by Mark Lundy at about 7pm critical of the police and to make it appear it had been shut down at experts, it also questions 10.52pm so as to give himself an alibi. They Wthe decisions and ac- postulated this because the “registry files” tions taken by Lundy’s defence team at trial. were out of order, which they claimed had Levick is hesitant to criticise Mike Behrens been done when the time was changed. and Steve Winter but says their acceptance But three other computer experts who of the polo-shirt specks as brain tissue was have examined the hard drive all noted the “a monumental error”, especially now that files would be disordered only if the date several experts have said there’s no discern- was changed, not the time. They also found ible brain tissue on the samples and strongly the drive was infected with the common questioned the science presented to the jury. KAK virus which is known to affect registry He also wonders why the time of death files. The police expert, Martin Kleintjes, evidence from the pathologists wasn’t chal- didn’t detect any virus on the computer and lenged, given it was obviously so out of step said he hadn’t even heard of the KAK virus. with accepted international science. He claimed the computer had a virus- But he’s well aware that the defence were checking program on it. given very limited resources to find and brief However, computer expert Michael Chap- experts, and what could be seen as mistakes pell has stated in an affidavit that the com- at trial may have been tactical gambits. Nor puter’s virus protection had expired more does Levick blame the jury for the decision than a year before the murders and that it it made. “The jury heard what they heard and was infected by the KAK virus, which could didn’t realise a lot of what they were hearing Mark Lundy and Amber, the Lundys’ only child, be traced back to an infected email six weeks was untrue. And the jury didn’t actually hear The Petone foreshore where Lundy was parked when Christine and Amber rang him who was seven when she was murdered. at 5.30pm. Despite having booked into his motel for the night, Lundy supposedly prior to the killings. a lot of other . So based just on what they told Christine he was coming home for sex and she should be in bed by 7pm. Chappell says the virus had clearly affected heard, then the jury’s decision was correct. the files, causing them to be out of sequence, And if I’d been sitting in the same jury room and says Kleintjes’ complicated theory of I think I would have argued that it was im- Lundy manipulating the computer prior to possible to do the drive in the time available the murders is, “incorrect and unfounded. – and other members of the jury would have lying then we’ll have another think about None of which deters Levick. If being in a definite about the time frame. And when to the prosecution case.” I would almost go as far as saying that his said, ‘Geoff, how do you explain his wife’s this.’ And he never has. Nothing.” small minority bothered him, he’d have given asked in 2008 by North & South whether, on Knight recognised this and said time of examination of the computer is almost bor- fresh brain tissue on his shirt?’ And with ab- David Hislop and Malcolm Birdling both up long ago. “If anyone had said to me at the reflection, the time of death could be pushed death “is absolutely crucial in this Lundy dering on incompetent.” solutely no answers to that I would’ve capitu- pay tribute to Levick’s persistence. “There’s start that this will take more than 10 years out to even 8pm, Pang replied, “Probably not.” case and it is, therefore, correspondingly es- When North & South interviewed Kleintjes lated and said, ‘I can’t explain that’ and I nothing in it for him if Mark Lundy walks to resolve, all it probably would have done But his findings, which were supported sential that it must be accurate and reliable, in 2008, he insisted the computer had been would have voted guilty, just like they did.” free – except an ‘I told you so,’” says Hislop. is give me grounds for pause, not to stop. Be- by Professor Gilbert Barbezat from Otago indeed well beyond reasonable doubt. In my thoroughly investigated and there were no In 2008, Ross Grantham told North & South “He’s a special human being, without whom cause once I started reading the case and the University, have been subsequently widely professional opinion the reverse is true. viruses on it. But Lundy’s lawyers have sub- he admired the likes of Levick who’d stuck this appeal wouldn’t have been.” trial transcripts it was just so apparent this ridiculed by international experts. Pang’s findings are unsupported by any valid mitted to the Privy Council that Kleintjes’ by Lundy but said it was futile because “the The hundreds of hours they’ve done on was wrong. I have to see something through In Lundy’s appeal, Professor Bernard science.” testimony is an example of “wrong evidence evidence produced is irrefutable”. He said the case pro bono are testament to Levick’s till it’s finished.” Knight, who authored the seminal The Esti- Professor Helen Whitwell also states in her by a poor scientist with poor examination it was unfortunate Lundy was so dishonest groundwork as well as their belief lawyers But that finish line is still a long way off. mation of Time Since Death in the Early Post affidavit that with regard to “the use of stom- skills – in short, bad science”. that he prevailed upon his small group of have an obligation to ensure a lack of money Ultimately all Levick wants is to be able to get Mortem Period – and who ironically Pang used ach contents as an estimation of time of death, They also point to the police supposedly supporters. doesn’t prevent access to justice. a new trial for Lundy where all the evidence, as a reference during the trial – is damning of this is completely unreliable and well recog- not examining a laptop computer Christine This kind of comment incenses Levick. The Privy Council may refuse to hear including what was withheld from the Pang’s findings. He says the suggestion that nised to be so”. was likely to have used that evening to do her “It’s absolute bullshit. What Grantham refers Lundy’s appeal – it could rule it’s been too defence and what they’ve discovered since, absence of gastric smell could be used to tell For reasons that are unclear, Lundy’s de- brother’s GST return. Inquiry head Ross Gran- to as irrefutable I would describe as utter long since his Court of Appeal hearing or it can be presented. time of death was “utterly without founda- fence didn’t question the time of death at trial, tham insists he asked for the laptop to be nonsense. I’m a facts man. And [Hislop and could prefer the arguments put forward by “That’s the end game. That’s where we tion and little short of ludicrous”. despite being advised by one expert that us- cloned and examined. Kleintjes is adamant Birdling] are the same – they just look at the the Crown Law Office in New Zealand, which finish – when we have a jury listen to the Knight also criticises Pang’s examination ing stomach contents to estimate time of death Grantham didn’t ask him to do this. Both deny facts. And the facts don’t stack up. In fact, will no doubt seek to uphold the conviction. truth. And if we have someone stretching the of the bodies at the crime scene and during was “in short… bullshit”. No experts were the laptop was examined, despite it poten- the so-called facts that convicted Mark It may, as in the case of John Barlow, grant truth, they are going to have themselves torn the autopsy, as well as his failure to conduct called to challenge Pang and Barbezat’s tially holding crucial information. Lundy aren’t facts at all. That’s it. There’s no a hearing, accept the arguments but decline to pieces. Not like last time.” elementary tests. And he says Pang’s precise evidence. However, police documents that were emotion in this. It’s just saying, this hasn’t to quash the conviction. Everyone on Lundy’s But first there’s the Privy Council hurdle claims of 7pm to 7.15pm as the time of death The Crown’s claim that Christine and obtained after the trial suggest it was in fact been done right. team accepts the difficulty of what they face. and the possibility they’ll be knocked back cannot be made accurately from stomach Amber were killed at 7pm was complicated cloned while in police custody, but no re- “I’ve been at this 10 years now and if any- But it’s always been like this. Virtually again. contents, concluding, “Very grave doubts by evidence the family’s computer was last sults have ever been disclosed. In the ap- thing you just keep finding more information everyone Lundy knew dumped him after the “That’s not going to happen,” says Levick, surround much or even all of Pang’s findings used at 10.52pm. This corresponded with peal, Lundy’s lawyers say the “failings of that shows the evidence that convicted Mark trial. Only two people in Palmerston North with a face like steel. “The Privy Council will and evidence.” evidence that lights were seen on in the the police are lamentable” and this may have Lundy gets weaker and weaker and weaker. have continued to visit him in jail. Even his agree to hear the case and they will order a The time of death in Lundy’s trial was Lundy house around 11pm. The lights were deprived Lundy of a defence if it was shown And on the other side I’ve never found any- own brother, Craig, has publicly stated he’s retrial. That’s it. Full stop. If they don’t, is a critical. In fact, the judge instructed the jury off the following morning when the bodies the laptop was used by Christine after 7pm, thing or heard anything that made me doubt guilty. (Lundy’s sister, Caryl, and brother-in- question I don’t think about. Because it’s not that if they doubted it was 7pm, “it is fatal were discovered. as is suspected. him. I’ve said to Mark, ‘If I ever catch you law Dave continue to support and visit him.) going to happen.” +

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