Bail denied for baby killer

FORMER elite water polo player Keli Lane, who was convicted of murdering her newborn baby Tegan, has had an application for bail refused in a Sydney court.Lane made the application in the NSW Supreme Court today pending an appeal against her conviction, which saw her sentenced in April 2011 to at least 13 years and five months in jail for the murder of her two-day-old daughter in September 1996.
Appearing via audio-visual link in prison greens, Lane bowed her head as Justice Clifton Hoeben announced he was refusing bail.
Lane, whose now dark hair was severely pulled back in a low bun, was supported in court by her parents Sandra and Robert Lane and her boyfriend Patrick Cogan.The 37-year-old former water polo champion has continued to maintain she handed Tegan over to the infant’s father, a man with whom she said she had a brief affair.Lane had two terminations as a teenager and had kept three pregnancies and births secret from family and friends.She had adopted out her first and third babies but no trace of Tegan has been found since she left a Sydney hospital with Lane.The crown contended Lane murdered Tegan because a child would have interfered with her sporting, sex and social life.

In making the brief bail application, Lane’s barrister, Winston Terracini QC, said he was relying on two of their grounds of appeal.

The first was that the trial judge failed to leave an alternative count of manslaughter open to the jury, while the other was the “conduct of the prosecution”.

Mr Terracini said there was no evidence in the Lane case “of infliction of any harm with any intent”.

He said there was also a problem with crown prosecutor Mark Tedeschi’s method of questioning during the trial, which he submitted reversed the onus of proof.

He likened this method to that used by Mr Tedeschi during the trial of Gordon Wood, whose conviction for the murder of 24-year-old model Caroline Byrne was overturned last year by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

“It’s not as bad as Wood but it’s pretty bad,” Mr Terracini said.

Justice Hoeben said while he understood the points raised by Lane’s defence, they were an issue for the appeal court, not for a bail application.

Following an appearance at the appeal court last month, Lane’s solicitor Ben Archbold told reporters that her bail application would be a “good test” of the strength of her appeal and whether or not it would be successful.He said while Lane was “obviously disappointed” they were “still positive in respect to her appeal”.Lane was sentenced to a maximum of 18 years, with her earliest date for release set for May 2023.
In a directions hearing less than an hour before Lane’s bail application at the Supreme Court, her defence was ordered to serve further submissions on her appeal by March 13.

Thai PM charged with murder

Abhisit Vejjajiva, the former PM of Thailand, has been charged with murder over the death of a civilian during a crackdown on anti-government rallies two years ago, his party says.

Abhisit, along with then-deputy Suthep Thaugsuban, was formally charged at Bangkok’s Department of Special Investigation (DSI) on Thursday.

They are the first officials to face a court over Thailand’s worst political violence in decades.

“The DSI has charged Abhisit and Suthep on section 288, which is murder. They both denied the charge,” Thavorn Senniem, a senior Democrat Party lawmaker, told AFP.

Hundreds of riot police were deployed to guard the building, as about 20 supporters carrying roses and dozens of protesters holding pictures of those killed during the crisis watched the former leader arrive.

At least 90 people were killed and nearly 1,900 wounded in a series of street clashes between “Red Shirt” protesters and security forces. The crisis culminated in a deadly army operation in 2010 to break up the demonstrations.

The charge against Abhisit, who was prime minister at the time, relates to the fatal shooting of taxi driver Phan Kamkong.

Tarit Pengdith, the chief of the DSI, announced the move last Thursday, saying that it was prompted by a court ruling in September that Phan was shot by troops. That ruling was the first completed inquest into the 2010 bloodshed.

Abhisit dismissed the case against him as “political” and said his government had no choice but to take tough action. The rallies drew around 100,000 people at their height.

‘Red Shirt’ trial
Meanwhile, a separate terrorism case against 24 leaders of the Red Shirts, including five current legislators, for their part in the rallies was postponed after two witnesses failed to attend.

“The court has postponed the hearing until [Friday],” a judge said, adding the court will issue an arrest warrant for one of the accused, deputy commerce minister Nattawut Saikur, if he is not present then.

Nattawut had said he would miss Thursday’s court date because he had to accompany Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on an official visit.

The trial against the Red Shirt leaders, who pleaded not guilty in August 2010, has been repeatedly postponed.

The Red Shirts – mostly supporters of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra – were demanding immediate elections in their 2010 protest.

They accused Abhisit’s government of being undemocratic because it took office in 2008 through a parliamentary vote after a court stripped Thaksin’s allies of power.

Elections in 2011 saw Thaksin’s Puea Thai party come back to power, with his sister Yingluck taking the prime minister’s post.

FIFA doctors ask for design changes to Muslim Girls head scarf

Medical advisers FIFA  are opposing the current design of a headscarf for Muslim Girls players.

Chairman of FIFA medical Michel D’Hooghe says samples received from two designers “represented a danger” to girls players’ health and a group of doctors tested the scarves and believes that wearing them while playing football could lead to head and neck injuries.

However, the panel on Thursday asked for further medical advice before it meets July 2.

World smallest Quran in Dubai UAE

An Dubai resident owns the world  smallest Quran measuring just 5.1cm in length and 8cm in width. It comprises 550 pages and is estimated to be about 400 years old.

Yemen Army and Al Qaeda fighting 124 dead in Loder in Abyan Yemen

124 killed in 48 hours of fighting between Yemeni troops and Al Qaeda militants in the country’s restive south, military and tribal sources said on Tuesday.

“One hundred and twenty-four people were killed in two days” of clashes around the city of  Loder in Abyan province which is besieged by Al-Qaeda, said a military official.

The toll, which was confirmed by tribal sources, includes 102 Al-Qaeda militants — 28 of them killed Tuesday –, 14 soldiers, and eight of the tribesmen fighting alongside the army. The fighting surged after Al-Qaeda militants attacked army barracks.
The clashes in Loder followed a series of air strikes that killed 24 suspected Al-Qaeda militants in their southern and eastern strongholds.
The city of Loder is located some 150 km northeast of Zinjibar, the Abyan provincial capital which the Al-Qaeda linked Partisans of Sharia militants overran in May last year.

Tunisian Muslim demand for Islamic state

Tunisian Islamists took to the streets on Sunday to step up their demands for the creation of an Islamic state in one of the most secular Arab nations.“This is not a show of force, but they should know that we can mobilize hundreds of thousands on the streets if they refuse the application of sharia,” said a young man who gave his name as Abu Jihad.

“We are in a Muslim country, so the talk about Islam in the constitution should not be feared.”

While Islamists did not play a prominent role in the 2011 uprising, a struggle over the role of religion in government has since polarized politics in Tunisia.

A constituent assembly elected in October, in the first vote after the revolution ousted secular President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, has about a year to hash out a new constitution.


Before the end of Sunday’s rally, demonstrators marched to Tunisia’s main theatre on Bourguiba Avenue, demanding that it be closed down and threatening to assault actors and artists.

Further alarming secularists, many demonstrators chanted “the people want a Caliphate”, referring to a defunct form of government under which Islamic empires ruled for centuries.

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