2 men found guilty in brutal slaying of Aboriginal woman

Source: Associated Press

Kristen Gelineau, Associated Press
 Updated 4:18 am, Wednesday, September 6, 2017

SYDNEY (AP) — More than six years after an Aboriginal woman bled to death from a violent sexual assault on a remote beach, a jury convicted two men on Wednesday in connection with her death in a case that horrified Australians and exposed the nation's deep racial divide.

After a five-week trial at Coffs Harbour Supreme Court, a jury took less than one hour to convict Adrian Attwater of manslaughter and aggravated sexual assault in the death of Lynette Daley. His co-defendant, Paul Maris, was found guilty of aggravated sexual assault and hindering the discovery of evidence.
 
Daley, a 33-year-old mother of seven, died in 2011 after Attwater and Maris drove her to an isolated beach in New South Wales, where she was subjected to a sexual assault so vicious, a forensic pathologist dubbed her injuries worse than those which occur in even precipitous childbirth.
 
Despite calls from a state coroner and police to prosecute Attwater and Maris, it took prosecutors more than five years to agree to try the men for the killing. Prosecutors only decided to move forward with the case last year, after media reports of her death prompted widespread public outrage and accusations that officials didn't care about Daley because she was Aboriginal and her assailants were white.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/2-men-found-guilty-in-brutal-slaying-of-12175949.php

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Adrian Attwater (L) and Paul Maris (R)



Adrian Attwater (L) and Paul Maris (R)



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Adrian Attwater is confronted by family and friends of Lynette Daley as he leaves Grafton court.