Several scientific experts are questioning the credibility of evidence used to convict Robert Farquharson of murdering his three sons.
Farquharson claimed he passed out from a coughing fit before crashing into a dam near Winchelsea on Father’s Day, 2005.
He was found guilty of deliberately driving into the dam and drowning his sons and is currently serving 33 years in Barwon Prison.
Anna-Maria Arabia from the Australian Academy of Science is fighting for a criminal justice system that allows for further review when the science demands it.
She has cast doubt on the evidence two Supreme Court Juries used to convict Farquharson.
She told Sixty Minutes there were significant shortfalls in the case.
“The science that was used to convict Robert Farquharson has not passed a reliability test,” she said.
“Until such time I would consider it unreliabile.
“We live in a country that has the potential to introduce junk science into our courtrooms and determine the freedoms of our people.”
Farquharson’s lawyers are planning an appeal later this year, following a Victorian law that was introduced in 2019, allowing inmates to present fresh and compelling evidence.
