FED:No verdict yet in Keli Lane murder trial

AAP General News (Australia)
12-08-2010
FED:No verdict yet in Keli Lane murder trial

SYDNEY, Dec 8 AAP - A Sydney jury will continue its deliberations on Thursday in the
trial of former water polo champion Keli Lane, who is accused of murdering her baby.

The NSW Supreme Court jury of six women and six men retired on Monday morning but have
not yet reached a verdict.

The 35-year-old has pleaded not guilty to murdering two-day old Tegan Lane on September
14, 1996, after they left Auburn hospital.

She also has denied three counts of making a false statement on oath in relation to
documents dealing with her adopting out two other babies.

Lane told police she handed Tegan over to a man she first named as Andrew Morris, then
Andrew Norris, who she said was the infant's father.

She said she'd had a brief and secret affair with him.

But the crown claims he is a fictitious person and that Lane murdered Tegan because
she did not want the responsibility of a child.

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