The Australian has a story on Italian authorities pointing the finger in the Colin Winchester assassination at the Calabrian mafia.
Vincenzo Macri, former deputy chief of the National AntiMafia Directorate in Italy, said he believed Winchester was ‘‘certainly’’ murdered by the Calabrian organised crime group known as the ’Ndrangheta, adding that he based his belief mainly on Australian police sources.
Mr Macri’s statement appears to support claims of innocence made by the man convicted of the Winchester murder, David Eastman, a mentally troubled former Treasury Department official who is serving a life sentence.
Eastman was jailed in 1995 but has consistently proclaimed his innocence and last year successfully applied to the ACT Supreme Court for an inquiry into his conviction, which is scheduled to begin hearings next week.