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November 14th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda More than 20 years after the badly decomposing bodies of two women were found in a four wheel-drive in far north Queensland scrubland, an inquest has heard the police investigation was full of deficiencies.
The bodies of Julie-Anne Leahy, 26 and Vicki Arnold, 27, were found near Cherry Tree Creek on August 9, 1991, two weeks after Mrs Leahy’s husband Alan told police they had failed to return from an early morning fishing trip.
Two inquests, in 1991 and 1999, found Ms Arnold killed Mrs Leahy before shooting herself behind the right ear.
Their families rejected the findings and believe both women were murdered.
A third inquest began in Atherton on Monday after former attorney-general Cameron Dick last year ordered the case be reopened.
In his opening address, counsel assisting the inquest Ralph Devlin told Coroner Michael Barnes there were a number of deficiencies in the initial police investigation.
He said police failed to search the car for fingerprints and did not check Ms Arnold’s hands for gunpowder residue.
“The consequences of such a failure are hard to exaggerate,” he said.
Mr Devlin said police did not have the experience to investigate such a complicated case and were not given assistance from homicide specialists.
He also branded the second inquest a “disappointment” because it failed to address public concerns about the case.
Outside court, the lawyer representing the Arnold family, Philip Bovey, said he hoped the inquest would finally clear Vicki’s name.
“It has always been my opinion that the coroner erred in finding Vicki was responsible,” he told AAP.
However, with most of the physical evidence from the case destroyed, he said there was little chance the inquest would be able to determine who may have killed the women.
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