SA: Snowtown suppressions appeal continues in Supreme Court

AAP General News (Australia)
12-19-2000
SA: Snowtown suppressions appeal continues in Supreme Court

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ADELAIDE, Dec 19 AAP - The South Australian Supreme Court has applied interim suppression
orders regarding arguments appealing against the existing suppressions in the bodies-in-barrels
murder case.

Lawyers representing 13 media outlets this morning started their appeal against suppressions
imposed in the Adelaide Magistrates Court committal hearing of four men facing charges
of murdering 10 people.

The charges relate to the discovery of eight bodies in a disused bank vault in Snowtown,
150km north of Adelaide, and two others found later in north suburban Adelaide.

In the Supreme Court today, Justice Brian Martin imposed interim suppression orders
on all arguments in his court this morning.

The magistrate presiding over the committal hearing, Mr David Gurry, suppressed the
crown prosecutor's opening address and evidence of three pathologists last week.

The media appealed against the suppressions.

The Supreme Court appeal will continue this afternoon while the committal hearing is
scheduled to resume tomorrow in the magistrates court.

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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