Hearing Hearing for Borce, Sarah Witness

Anthony Rickard, 34, was arrested on a Diggers Rest property at around 12:20 pm on Sunday on overdue warrants, including failing to answer a bail charge.

He appeared before the Magistrates Court of Melbourne. the word "thug" and was denied bail

It was said in court that the police had repeatedly tried to contact Rickard but he refused to cooperate.

Rickard is due to testify at his father's remand hearing Borce Ristevski, who has been in prison since he was charged with the murder of his wife in December.

This week, her daughter Sarah, 22, is also named as a prosecution witness.

Sarah had been the most loyal 54-year-old supporter despite the devastating accusation of having murdered her 25-year-old mother.

It is the rule for the Crown to summon witnesses who have made statements to be polite. this, as Sarah and her father did in the early days when Karen was still a missing person.

In the days after 47-year-old fashion identity disappeared from her home in Avondale Heights in northwestern Melbourne on June 29, 2016 Sarah and her father showed a united front in their public call for help to find it.

The research was completed eight months later with the discovery of Karen's decomposed remains between two trunks in the bush at Loch Road at Mount Macedon on February 20th.

In the months leading up to Ristevski's arrest, when it appeared that the police treated him as a suspect, Sarah stopped cooperating with the detectives in solidarity with his father.

She had already lost her mother, he was not like she was going to lose her father as well.

So the idea that this stoic young woman may have changed her mind about her father is compelling, but not necessarily accurate. The truth about his situation is much more interesting.

Gideon Boas, a lawyer and badociate professor at The Law School of Trobe University, stated that Sarah's presence among the 29 witnesses listed by the prosecution did not mean that she had taken sides. 19659003] His potential role as a prosecution witness was made public after the information was included in a request for deletion of the incarceration hearing by Stary Norton Halphen, the firm representing M Ristevski.

Attorney Sam Norton argued that it was necessary the impeachment hearing to ensure a "fair trial" to his client, citing "deliberately toxic" reports after charges were brought against him.

He eventually withdrew the application before he could be tried.

denied any involvement in the death of his wife, and his lawyer said he would plead not guilty.

The 22,000-page file includes more than 100 testimonies Mr. Ristevski has been remanded in custody until this week's hearing, which is expected to last two weeks.

At a hearing in May, magistrate Suzanne Cameron told the court that Sarah would need

M. Boas stated that Ms. Cameron was referring to a provision that allowed the children of accused persons to refuse to testify against their parents, in the same way that a husband or wife can not be "

" The question of to know if a family member is compellable is a balancing act for the court, "then told Mr. Boas at news.com.au

" The court balances the impact of compelling the witness to testify to the impact on the relationship and to weigh that against the nature and gravity of the offense and the interests of justice being served.

"So she must be advised that she has the right before she is called to testify.If the judge decides that his testimony is necessary, the compels him to testify and that he" s to testify. she refuses, she may be charged with contempt of court.

"It then becomes very serious that a person may be imprisoned for any where.

" It really depends on the The importance of Sarah's evidence for the prosecution record and we do not know it yet. "

If the case goes to trial, Sarah and her brother-in-law Rickard Ms. Cameron has also stated that Rickard needed counseling to incriminate himself in relation to his drug use before being cross-examined.

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" All witnesses will be asked to stay out of the court until they have finished testifying. "their blood ties to the accused, the" As a rule, your We do not have contact between the accused and the prosecution witnesses and the terms of the surety state that you must not contact the witnesses or engage in any activity that may be considered unreasonable interference. "But in this case, nothing prevents Sarah from contacting her father or visiting him in jail and nothing to stop him from discussing the case with him."

A remand hearing is a process in which a magistrate decides that there is sufficient evidence to proceed to a trial. A magistrate may also decide that the case should be dropped if the evidence is deemed too weak.

Unlike NSW, defendants in Victoria can not request a trial of judges only; all criminal trials in this state must have a jury.

– Supplementary Record PAA