AAP General News (Australia)
04-29-2011
SA:Man loses appeal over Ryan murder
ADELAIDE, April 29 AAP - A Victorian man has lost an appeal against his conviction
for killing Adelaide teenager Carly Ryan.
The South Australian Court of Criminal Appeal on Friday rejected Garry Francis Newman's
appeal over his murder conviction for the death of 15-year-old Carly at a secluded beach,
south of Adelaide, in July 2007.
His counsel Nick Vadasz had argued that her mother, Sonya, should not have been allowed
to give evidence at trial of a conversation she had with her daughter before her death.
Justices Tom Gray, Richard White and Chris Kourakis rejected those grounds saying it
was important that the jury had context about events leading to her murder.
Newman is serving a minimum of 29 years after being found guilty of murder.
He used an cyberspace alter-ego, "Brandon Kane", to communicate with Carly after meeting
her through a gothic vampire website.
The teenager fell in love with the fictitious guitarist who portrayed himself as a
member of the "emo" subculture.
But when Newman travelled to Adelaide in February 2007 in a bid to fulfill his sexual
fantasies, Carly rejected his advances.
Evidence at the trial revealed she had been bashed, suffocated and placed in the water
at Port Elliott, south of Adelaide, where she drowned.
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