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R V Gittany Report

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R v Gittany Report By Caelan Philbrook Details of the Case The case R v Gittany (No 4) [2013] NSWSC 1737 (27 November 2013) was heard in the New South Wales Supreme Court where the accused Simon Gittany was charged with and found guilty of the murder of his fiance Lisa Cecilia Harnum which occurred on the 30th of July 2011, with the victims of this case being Simon’s fiance Lisa, and the entirety of Lisa’s family and friends. Key facts of the Case The Backstory of Simon Gittany The accused/defendant Simon Gittany was raised in the Western Sydney suburb of Maryland’s, he was born into a large Lebanese Christian family. At 18 years old, Simon received a two-year good behaviour bond for punching a deli owner who asked him to not harass Simon’s ex-girlfriend who worked as an employee. Three years later, a detective named Keith Bristow and his partner were investigating a theft at the business Gittany worked at, they came to his family home and tried to serve a …show more content…

Due to Simon always controlling over who Lisa is able to hang out with It was said by the prosecution that, by the time of her death, she had no close friends and the only people that she had other than her family, was her new personal trainer and her new counsellor, whom she only knew for a few weeks. The Crown contended that Lisa Harnum was by then subject to an extreme measure of control by the accused in her daily life. Evidence that showcases the issue of Simon’s controlling behaviour was, when he installed covert software that allowed him to secretly monitor all of the messages on Lisa’s

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