A retired US doctor has failed in his High Court appeal to overturn his conviction for murdering Brisbane socialite Maureen Boyce.
The High Court on Wednesday dismissed his latest appeal on two grounds: that the jury verdict was unreasonable and the evidence of forensic pathologist Beng Beng Ong was outside his expert knowledge.Only she and Lang were in the apartment when she died.
The High Court judges said Ong's evidence supported the prosecution's murder case and, taken as a whole, the evidence admitted at trial was sufficient for the jury to exclude as a reasonable hypothesis that Boyce died by suicide.More 'human remains' recovered from Titanic submersible
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