HER HONOUR: "Simon Gittany is charged with the murder of Lisa Cecilia Harnum on the 30th of July 2011. He has pleaded not guilty to that charge. On his application, I ordered that he be tried by a judge alone. The trial proceeded before me over four weeks from 21 October 2013. This judgment records my verdict and my reasons for reaching that verdict." (Australasian Legal Information Institute, 2013) At the time of Lisa Harnum's death, she and the accused were engaged and living together in an apartment on the 15th floor. Miss Harnum fell off the balcony of her apartment to her death. The main issue in the trial was whether her death was the doing of the accused. The Crown claims that the accused purposefully lifted Miss Harnum and threw her over the balcony however the accused says that she either slipped or allowed herself to fall off the balcony of her own consensus. …show more content…
There were cameras in their apartment unit at the time of her death, the accused told the police how to operate the security system but did not tell them about the hard drive. By the time they knew about it, it was gone. The hard drive was brought to Court by Mr Craig McCoy. An IT consultant had been asked to examine it. There were no deleted files and the crown examined it to see if the hard drive had been reset at any time but couldn't find anything to support that idea. The accused stated that he thought the cameras were on at the time of Lisa Harnim's death. The Accused was found guilty of the murder of Lisa Cecilia Harnum on the 27th of November 2013 before only a