David Eastman sued the government in the ACT Supreme Court over the 19 years he spent in prison convicted of the killing of police chief Colin Winchester.
We trawled the archives to explore the most common Winchester conspiracy theory,the professional Mafia"hit".
David Eastman served 6860 days of a life sentence for murdering Colin Winchester,but now he has been acquitted,his case against the government will resume.
One of the weaknesses of the Australian criminal justice system is that it did not recognise a fundamental mistake and a serious injustice.
Investigators did not “exhaust to the point of negation” the theory that Colin Winchester’s assassination had been the work of the Calabrian Mafia,a former Canberra top cop said Friday.
It's time for the police,and prosecutors,to examine and admit to the flaws in their handling of this case.
The assassination of Colin Winchester on January 10,1989,was and is the most sensational crime ever to occur in the ACT.
The behind-the-scenes story of the retrial that led to David Eastman's acquittal - and the big changes compared with the first time he faced a jury.
The family of Colin Winchester has reacted to David Eastman's acquittal after his second trial.
The retrial of David Harold Eastman for the assassination of ACT police chief Colin Stanley Winchester has cost about $6.5 million,new figures show.
Now the trial is over,David Harold Eastman's bid to sue the ACT government for wrongful imprisonment is back on.