Can circumstantial evidence be used to convict Vybz Kartel even though no body has been found in the murder case that he is facing?
One876 looks at other cases around the world to weigh Kartel’s chances.
Circumstantial evidence was originally deemed sufficient to obtain a murder conviction in the Australian “Dingo baby case”, and in others such as Bradley John Murdoch and the murder of Thomas and Jackie Hawks. In the 2001 murder of Danielle Jones, the required circumstantial evidence was provided by forensic analysis of text messages sent by the accused, her uncle Stuart Campbell, who was convicted of her murder in December 2002. Police determined that Campbell had sent text messages from Danielle’s mobile phone to his own after she disappeared, to make it appear that she was still alive.
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