Australian court acquits engineer of parents’ murders

An Australian civil engineer was acquitted of the frenzied stabbing murders of his parents in 1993, describing his lengthy legal fight as “a horrendous experience”.

Australian court acquits engineer of parents’ murders

Jeffrey Gilham, 42, was jailed for life in 2009 for killing his mother, Helen, 55, and father, Steven, 58, at the family’s riverfront home in Sydney’s south, but always maintained his brother committed the murders.

His conviction was overturned in December after the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal found there were serious flaws in the forensic evidence used by the prosecution.

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