SA: Snowtown suppression appeal continues

AAP General News (Australia)
12-21-2000
SA: Snowtown suppression appeal continues

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ADELAIDE, Dec 21 AAP - Appeals against suppressions in the bodies-in-barrels murder
case resume in the South Australian Supreme Court today but further evidence won't be
heard until next year.

The committal hearing in the Adelaide Magistrates Court of four men charged over 10
murders was yesterday adjourned until January 22 next year.

Today, lawyers representing 13 media outlets will continue an appeal in the Supreme
Court to have suppression orders imposed on details of the case lifted.

Justice Brian Martin has heard two days of appeal against the suppression of the Crown
prosecutor's opening address and the evidence of three pathologists in the committal hearing.

He will resume hearing the appeal this afternoon.

Four men have not entered pleas to murder charges relating to the discovery of eight
bodies in a disused bank vault in Snowtown, 150km north of Adelaide, and two bodies later
found buried in a north suburban Adelaide backyard.

Three men - Robert Joe Wagner, 28, of Elizabeth Grove, John Justin Bunting, 34, of
Craigmore, and Mark Ray Haydon, 42, of Smithfield Plains - face 10 murder charges.

A fourth man, James Spyridon Vlassakis, 20, of Craigmore, faces five murder charges.

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