AAP General News (Australia)
12-21-2009
Vic: Farquharson granted bail ahead of retrial
MELBOURNE, Dec 21 AAP - A man jailed for allegedly killing his three children by driving
them into a dam has been granted bail ahead of a new trial.
Victoria's Court of Appeal last week quashed Robert Farquharson's conviction, ordering
he undergo a fresh trial in the first half of 2010.
The bail decision came after the court ruled there was a miscarriage of justice during
his Supreme Court trial.
Farquharson, 40, had appealed his sentence of life in jail with no parole for the murders
of Jai, 10, Tyler, seven, and Bailey, two.
He was accused of drowning the boys by driving them into a dam near Winchelsea in Victoria's
southwest on Fathers Day 2005.
He maintained his innocence, saying he had blacked out from a coughing fit before veering
off the road into the dam.
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