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Cargando... The killing of Caroline Byrne : a journey to justicepor Robert Wainwright
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On a bleak, moonless winter night in the winter of 1995 beautiful Sydney model Caroline Byrne died, her body embedded head-first into a crevice at the bottom of The Gap at the historic entrance to Sydney Harbour. How did she get out so far, almost 12 metres from the base of the sheer sandstone precipice? Did she jump, as so many had done before at the notorious suicide spot, or had she been thrown in a fit of rage? What begins with the retrieval of a shattered body from the harbour city's most notorious suicide spots turns into one of the nation's most extraordinary murder investigations, leading to the dark heart of a city gripped by greed, pandering to its powerful, and exposing a police force whose lack of imagination and resources was surpassed only by the doggedness of its finest officers to right an unforgivable wrong. This is a journey to justice, the extraordinary inside story of Caroline's father Tony Byrne's determination to find the truth of his daughter's death and, in doing so, test the justice system to its limits. Robert Wainwright has followed this case in detail ever since Caroline Byrne's death. He helped track down Gordon Wood in London and was on Qantas flight 32 when the killer was flown back to Sydney to face justice. A journalist of 25 years experience, he is the author of Rose: the unauthorised biography of Rose Hancock Porteous (2002) and the prize winning The Lost Boy (2004). No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Either way this is a very interesting book about a very sad case. It took many many years for justice to be done for Caroline Byrne and her family. From the discovery of her body it seemed that there was something very wrong with the obvious conclusion of suicide. Just because her body was found at The Gap, a common location for suicides, her body was embedded head-first in a crevice, an inexplicably long way out from where you would think somebody could have jumped.
The book looks compassionately but truthfully at Caroline's family background, her mother's suicide and her father's quiet desperation for understanding of what happened to his beautiful daughter. It looks a Caroline's own life, her work and her relationship with Gordon Brown. It also looks at Gordon's own background, and his relationship with notorious Sydney identity Rene Rivkin. It follows the long, drawn out police investigation into the circumstances surrounding Caroline's death, and ultimately to the conviction of Gordon Brown for her murder.
Well written, this book avoids sensationalism and simply prevents the facts. There is an undoubted level of sympathy for Caroline's father, in particular, but it's careful, almost cautious and extremely respectful of a family, and a father, who has endured a lot. (