A Hobart woman's appeal against a conviction for murdering her husband of 18 years on board their yacht has begun in the Supreme Court in Hobart this morning.
Last year Susan Blyth Neill-Fraser, 57, was found guilty of murdering radiation physicist Bob Chappell and sentenced to at least 18 years jail.
Her defence lawyer argued a homeless teenage girl, whose DNA was found on the deck of the yacht should have been recalled to the witness stand in the original trial after a de
tective revealed she had lied about her whereabouts the night in question.
The defence has also argued the evidence from former friend Phillip Triffett who told the jury Neill-Fraser had discussed a plan to murder her brother and later Mr Chappell in the 1990s should have been ruled inadmissable.
Director of Public Prosecutions Tim Ellis will respond this afternoon.
