Victorian State Coroner releases finding into the death of Jaidyn Leskie

Victorian State Coroner releases finding into the death of Jaidyn Leskie.

More than nine years after the death of Moe toddler Jaidyn Leskie, following a Supreme Court trial for murder and three attempts at an inquest, on 4th October 2006, the Victorian State Coroner delivered his finding on what he considers happened on the night of 14 July 1997, when 15 month old Jaidyn’s mother, then Bylinda Murphy, left her little son with her friend and occasional baby-sitter Greg Domascewicz.

Victorian Bar Council President Stephen Sheriffs  QC on the ABC’s 7.30 Report commented as follows: ‘One anticipated that there was probably some smoking gun somewhere that would help solve what has been a riddle, although really we as a community should have accepted the jury verdict in relation to Greg Domaszewicz, that he was not guilty of the murder of Jaidyn Leskie. But there's been no evidence that's emerged, nothing new that has emerged, so at the end of this long saga, nothing more has been achieved… [The Coroner] cannot make a finding that will call into question or seek to undermine the jury's verdict of acquittal. Secondly, he's bound by the provisions of the Coroner's Act, which forbids him making a finding any particular person did or may have committed a crime. To the extent that his findings have crossed that threshold, then he's gone beyond the charter of his Act. CMS