Killer to get some farm funds for appeal

June 8th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

AAP

A woman in jail for murdering her estranged husband has won the right to a share of money from the sale of their farm to fund an appeal against her conviction.

Helen Ryan, 52, was jailed for at least 27 years in October last year for murdering Jeffrey Ryan, 48, who was gunned down at the couple’s $1 million property at Duri, near Tamworth in the state’s north, in October 2009

Ryan was found to have recruited her mother and sister to help arrange the $30,000 contract killing, a plot described by the sentencing judge as “wicked and gravely reprehensible”.

Her lawyers applied to the NSW Supreme Court for the release of $311,000 out of the $1.032 million held by the court, money which is the proceeds of the sale of the farm.

Ryan wants the $311,000 to prosecute her appeal, as well as to defend civil proceedings brought against her by Ben Ryan, the son of the victim from another marriage and executor of his estate.

On Friday, Justice Julie Ward said Ryan should at first receive funds to meet the costs of obtaining advice as the prospects of her appeal and then, if appropriate, for counsel’s representation at the appeal.

She said applications for such costs should be made in stages and she would need to approve detailed estimates of them.

No more than $242,004 should be paid out, the judge said.

The civil action against Ryan is brought on two grounds, one being a claim that she is not entitled to any of the farm proceeds under NSW forfeiture laws where killers cannot benefit from their crime.

The judge said it seemed likely that the estate will be found entitled to at least a 50 per cent share of the sale proceeds and potentially at least 76.55 per cent.

There was a “recognised public interest” in a person in Ryan’s position being able to obtain legal advice about an appeal and to prosecute it if advised, she said.