Prosecutors have pointed to Mr Eastman’s desperation to return to the public service as one path of his motive towards killing Colin Winchester.
The defence has raised the spectre of mafia involvement in the murder of Assistant Commissioner Colin Winchester,and claimed their client was harassed.
The timeline of events as set out by the Crown in the case against David Harold Eastman.
"He was the first man I ever killed,"prosecutors allege he whispered. It came after mention of alleged Mafia involvement briefly closed the murder trial.
The retrial of David Harold Eastman has opened in the ACT Supreme Court,and the prosecution is outlining its case.
The judge spoke to the jurors ahead of the retrial of David Eastman for the alleged murder of Colin Winchester in 1989.
David Eastman has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Assistant Federal Police Commissioner Colin Winchester.