Senior Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi QC began his closing address to the jury yesterday in the Keli Lane case. He said she had told 95 lies to cover the fact that she had had three secret and unwanted pregnancies so she could maintain her "golden girl" image. He argued that she wanted to be permanently relieved of the responsibilities of looking after three babies she gave birth to between 1995 and 1999. Two of those babies were legally adopted but Lane is standing trial for the murder of her second born child Tegan. Lane has pleaded not guilty and insists she gave Tegan to her father when she came out of hospital shortly after her birth in 1996.
It's an amazing story. Three times in five years the elite water polo athlete got pregnant and had the babies without anyone knowing, not even her parents. Incredible when you think of it - how did she hide it? A fellow water polo associate said that she would wrap a towel around herself and slowly slide into the pool but the pregnancy wasn't really obvious to anyone.
In Mr Tedeschi's summing up, he alleges that Lane found a "permanent solution" to relieving the responsibility of Tegan, and that was to murder her. The jury was warned by Justice Anthony Wheatly that only three of the alleged 95 lies Lane had told "may be used relevant to the issue of guilt" while the others could only be used by the jury to assess character.
Police have searched all over the country, trying to find the man who Lane says she gave Tegan to but all leads have been exhausted and he can't be found. Tegan's body has never been found. The day Lane left hospital, she attended a wedding with family and friends and no one would have been any the wiser except for an alert member of DOCS who blew the whistle. Lane has looked relaxed and confident throughout the trial and if she's worried about the verdict about to be brought down, she sure isn't showing it.
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