Back From The Dead In Australia

[Kalhoun]

This link, http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/04/16/australia.hideaway.reut/index.html, tells of a girl who ran away and let a man be imprisoned for her murder, only to rat herself out and admit she had been in self-imposed exile with her much-older boyfriend.

I'm interested in hearing from the Aussies. Is there any more information other than what was published on CNN.com? What a sad story. Her poor parents...

[Kalhoun]

Try this one? http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/04/16/australia.hideaway.reut/index.html

If that doesn't work, I'm sorry...I don't know how to link very well.

[TheLoadedDog]

This Aussie's opinion? She's a selfish little shit. Parents in mourning, a man on trial for her murder, and she still manages to make a buck out of it. The Nine Television network should be ashamed of itself for paying the money.

[Kalhoun]

Was there any more background on this girl? Was she in a bad situation at home that made her do something so bizarre at such a young age? What a screwed up kid. I wonder if she'll go to jail. Probably not since she was so young. The boyfriend is probably in big trouble, huh?

[BigNik]

Originally posted by Kalhoun
Was there any more background on this girl? Was she in a bad situation at home that made her do something so bizarre at such a young age? What a screwed up kid. I wonder if she'll go to jail. Probably not since she was so young. The boyfriend is probably in big trouble, huh?

Apparently she and her mother got along very poorly, so she ran away. Happens everywhere. In this case, though, the whole thing snowballed and she (and, one assumes, her boyfriend) decided that facing the music was just too tough.

The only thing that she's done that's actually illegal, AFAIK, is waste police time - creating a public nuisance, in the eyes of the courts - and there's a good chance that she'll receive a bill for a few million for doing so.

She's a selfish princess who felt it was better that her parents think her dead, and even that someone be convicted of her murder, than to face up to the fact that not everyone gets a happy homelife. Channel 9, however, having paid $200,000 for the story, will get 60 Minutes to make her out as a poor little flower who is being unfairly victimised. And then try to portray itself as a 'news' organisation.

[leechbabe]

Disgusting!

[entity119]

Haha, was reading about this jerkwad in today's paper. It really pisses me off that there is/was a bidding war going on for her story ATM, and odds are that the stupid bitch will end up keeping the money for herself rather than giving it back to the people and organisations that wasted their time looking for her.

[mhendo]

The day that this girl was discovered, a man was on trial for her murder. And that's not all. According to the Sydney Morning Herald (http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/11/1049567877250.html), her boyfriend Scott Blackwas scheduled to appear before the Queensland Supreme Court yesterday at the trial of Leonard John Fraser, 51, who has pleaded not guilty to murdering Ms Ryan and three other Rockhampton women. So, this guy, knowing that Natsha Ryan was alive and well and living in his house, was going to testify at the trial of a man charged with murdering her. At the very least, he should be charged with obstruction of justice. And the girl herself was apparently unconcerned that a man might be convicted for a crime that was never committed.

Now, Fraser had already be found guilty of another murder, for which he is serving a life sentence, so he's obviously not a nice guy. And he may well have killed the other women in this case. But the fact that, in the current trial, he was being charged with murdering someone who was not even dead suggests that the prosecution's evidence might be less than ironclad. Especially considering that part of the prosecution's case consists of a taped converation in which Fraser "supposedly admitted to murdering Miss Ryan." As the story says:Fraser's lawyers are preparing a submission seeking to have his trial aborted. A former Supreme Court judge, Bill Carter, said there had to be serious doubts about the police brief.

"We came very close to convicting someone of a murder he did not commit."

[Kalhoun]

This is a cluster-fuck of biblical proportions. I predict heads will roll.