Overview
- A three-judge Court of Criminal Appeal unanimously dismissed Cedric and Noelene Jordan’s challenge to their 2023 murder verdicts.
- Justice Stephen Estcourt said there was “not a scintilla of reasonable doubt” about the couple’s guilt and that no miscarriage of justice was shown.
- The court rejected a defence theory that a third party used an unregistered .22 rifle, as well as objections to a police video reconstruction.
- Judges found no merit in complaints about two jurors who were in a relationship, noting the trial judge acted appropriately.
- The couple, both in their 70s, continue to serve 22-year sentences with a 12-year non-parole period for the 2009 shooting of Shane Barker.