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Sunday Age (Melbourne, Australia)
February 10, 2008 Sunday
First Edition
The Heckler
[parts omitted]
Less than appealing
One inventive Victorian prisoner may finally have run out of ideas.
Early in 2006 his appeal against a 14-year term for setting fire to a
woman who had refused his marriage proposal failed so he tried the
Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission. He argued that the
interpreters who worked with him during his trial and appeal had
given him incorrect information because they were Armenian. The man
is Turkish and claimed they were influenced by traditional hostility
between Turks and Armenians. The commission knocked him back -
something to do with a complete lack of evidence. So he turned to
VCAT, which recently rejected the complaint as "manifestly hopeless".
February 10, 2008 Sunday
First Edition
The Heckler
[parts omitted]
Less than appealing
One inventive Victorian prisoner may finally have run out of ideas.
Early in 2006 his appeal against a 14-year term for setting fire to a
woman who had refused his marriage proposal failed so he tried the
Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission. He argued that the
interpreters who worked with him during his trial and appeal had
given him incorrect information because they were Armenian. The man
is Turkish and claimed they were influenced by traditional hostility
between Turks and Armenians. The commission knocked him back -
something to do with a complete lack of evidence. So he turned to
VCAT, which recently rejected the complaint as "manifestly hopeless".