Another Christmas inside the walls of Casuarina Maximum Security prison

At the status hearing on December 12 the court ruled there would be a retrial on August 3 with a directions hearing sometime in February.

However this was subsequently altered on 15 December to now be July 18 for the re-trial with the directions hearing on 1 March.

At the directions hearing there will be argument presented as to whether the unrecorded police statements will be allowed in as evidence. Remember these statements are what the police say Andrew said to them - the so-called "confessions".

They are unsubstantiated - and have always been refuted by Andrew and ourselves as being a true record of what was said. Andrew was always interviewed at the police headquarters - where there is recording equipment available - so - we have always asked -"why didn't they use the equipment?".

Without the police statements there is no evidence against Andrew - no DNA, no eye-witness no forensic evidence at all.

In the mean time - we have yet to hear officially from the DPP as to his thoughts on proceeding to the re-trial. the police involved in taking these statements are under investigatio.

Andrew is spending another Christmas behind bars - let us all hope that this will be the last and next years Christmas festivities will see Andrew a free man.

Many thanks to all of you who have sent to Andrew cards and written him letters. You have helped to keep his morale strong - we are proud of Andrew's strength to yet again have to wait while the wheels of justice slowly grind on toward a conclusion for this nightmare we all have been living through.