NSW:Keli Lane killed baby = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
12-13-2010
NSW:Keli Lane killed baby = 2

The 35-year-old had pleaded not guilty to murdering two-day old TEGAN LANE after they
left Sydney's Auburn hospital on September 14 .. 1996.

The NSW Supreme Court jury of six women and six men retired a week ago and delivered
its verdict this afternoon.

Immediately after the murder verdict .. LANE screamed out and fell to the floor of
the dock .. her mother .. who was in the public gallery .. also sobbed.

Earlier .. the jury found LANE guilty of three counts of making a false statement on
oath in relation to documents dealing with her adopting out two other babies.

During the trial the jury had heard LANE was motivated by her Olympic ambitions and
also wanted to continue her active social and sex life.

It also heard LANE had told police she handed over TEGAN to the baby's father .. a
man with whom she'd had a brief and secret affair.

But the crown contended the named father was a fictitious person and she murdered the
infant as she didn't want the responsibility of a child.

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KEYWORD: LANE 2 SYDNEY (RE-OPENS)

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