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April 28th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A Melbourne man has been acquitted of the 1994 murder of Elisabeth Membrey.
Shane Andrew Bond, 45, denied murdering Ms Membrey, who disappeared from her Ringwood unit in 1994.
On Saturday a Victorian Supreme Court jury agreed and found Mr Bond not guilty of Ms Membrey’s murder.
As the verdict was delivered, Ms Membrey’s mother Joy, who has waited nearly two decades for answers to their daughter’s disappearance, appeared to wipe away tears.
Mr Bond broke down in the docks after jurors left the courtroom.
The verdict came after seven days of deliberation by the jury.
Mr Bond was one of several suspects in the cold case murder investigation.
A former workmate of Ms Membrey’s had been the prime suspect for a number of years until 2005.
In 2006 new information led police to look at Mr Bond.
Bloodstains in Ms Membrey’s flat and a missing doona were among the few pieces of evidence about her disappearance.
Defence barrister Michael O’Connell SC told jurors there was no physical evidence against Mr Bond and they would not be satisfied of his guilt.
Prosecutors had also failed to exclude the possibility that someone else had killed her, he said.
“The fact is, very little is known about what happened to Elisabeth Membrey in the unit on that night,” Mr O’Connell said.
“Virtually nothing is known about how she died or indeed why she died.
“In those circumstances it is simply not possible to be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt of the guilt of the accused.”
The case against Mr Bond was based on the testimony of several witnesses who he made alleged confessions to, and a former housemate who said Mr Bond came home covered in blood on the night Ms Membrey disappeared.
Other witnesses alleged they had seen Ms Membrey arguing with a man believed to be Mr Bond on the day she disappeared.
In his closing address in the Victorian Supreme Court trial, prosecutor Geoff Horgan SC urged jurors to accept the evidence of a witness who said that Mr Bond was interested in Ms Membrey but she was not interested in him, and he had been rejected by her.
Mr Horgan said previous police investigations into the case that looked at other suspects were flawed.
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