GUILTY Australia - Eunji Ban, 23, murdered in Brisbane park, 24 Nov 2013

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Just a little update here. Justice gets closer and closer for this despicable, cowardly, little worm, Alex Reuben McEwan ("mental health problems" my arse!).

https://au.news.yahoo.com/qld/a/25445362/accused-korean-killers-trial-delayed/

So, if his "mental health" is all sorted out some time this year, we could probably expect a full criminal trial in 2016. (BTW, good to see that his parents are not forking out for some expensive legal help, and he has to rely on legal aid).

Fingers crossed he gets life without parole.
 
omg, Brisbane is so close to me. So many foreign women are being killed there it seems. i wonder if they are connected. Its not safe to walk alone at night anywhere these days.
 
http://www.qt.com.au/news/teen-deemed-unfit-to-stand-trial-for-slaying-of-st/2643950/

THE former Ipswich teen accused of the brutal and senseless murder of a South Korean student that sent shockwaves across the state has been deemed unfit to stand trial. But a court ruled Alex Reuben McEwan, 21, was of sound mind when the alleged murder took place, which means he will stand trial once he is medically fit to do so...

Justice Boddice said after considering the evidence he was satisfied McEwan was not entitled to a defence of diminished responsibility over the alleged murder. He placed McEwan on a mandatory forensic order because he represented a very real danger to himself and others in his current state.

McEwan remains locked up at The Park Centre for Mental Health, a high-security facility located near the Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre at Wacol, where he is receiving ongoing treatment.
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Two years after a South Korean woman was brutally murdered in Brisbane prosecutors are moving forward in their case against her accused killer.
KOREAN woman Eunji Ban’s alleged killer will finally face public scrutiny after the case languished for more than two years behind the closed doors of the Mental Health Court.

The high-profile case can now move ahead after Alex Reuben McEwan was declared fit to stand trial.

Read more here:
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...h/news-story/9694db91453aea9d24533b953970bbcd
 
This is great news IBR, thanks for sharing.

IBR said:
Two years after a South Korean woman was brutally murdered in Brisbane prosecutors are moving forward in their case against her accused killer.
KOREAN woman Eunji Ban’s alleged killer will finally face public scrutiny after the case languished for more than two years behind the closed doors of the Mental Health Court.

The high-profile case can now move ahead after Alex Reuben McEwan was declared fit to stand trial.

Read more here:
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...h/news-story/9694db91453aea9d24533b953970bbcd
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Eunji Ban's death: Court hears audio from man accused of student's murder
ABC News
BY ELLIE SIBSON
UPDATED TUE 26 SEP 2017, 6:29 PM AEST

‘The Brisbane man accused of bashing to death Korean student Eunji Ban admitted to police he "bashed the s*** out of her face" while she screamed for help, a Brisbane court hears.

Alex Reuben McEwan admitted to causing Ms Ban's death in 2013 but denies it was murder, saying he felt like he was possessed at the time.

The court heard on Tuesday that Ms Ban had such severe injuries to her face a paramedic was initially unable to determine her gender.

McEwan went into detail about the attack with police during his arrest, with the audio played in the Supreme Court on Tuesday.’

Read more at:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-...-gender-indistinguishable/8989462?pfmredir=sm
 
Hi Sleuths, does anyone remember the profession of Geoffrey McEwan, Alex McEwan's father? I distinctly remember an article in the MSM the day after his arrest that disclosed his profession. I think it was QC or something in the legal profession. That article appears to have been removed. It quoted his parents' and sister's initial reaction to his arrest and stated the parents' professions. The reason I am interested is that since he has been successful at having his trial deferred on mental health grounds he has been presented in the press as a boy from Ipswich with no real connection to anyone in Brisbane. His family lived with him in Spring Hill and he grew up in Cooparoo - so the reference to him as being a spray painter from Ipswich (and the removal of articles earlier which didn't say that) seems like an orchestrated cover up to avoid anyone realising what is happening here.
 
From http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/.../news-story/0726d7d9857024039a75168cf53fddc9:

His parents bought the third floor, three-bedroom Spring Hill apartment in September 2011 for almost half a million dollars and were well known and liked residents there.
One neighbour yesterday recalled how McEwan's father would warmly greet him with a smile or a wave in the corridors several times a week.
McEwan was seen in the apartment complex only occasionally and was more reserved, but nothing stood out about his behaviour, the neighbour said.
The complex is filled with Asian students who were stunned yesterday to be told the accused killer lived among them.
Forensic teams swarmed the apartment yesterday, looking for evidence to connect McEwan to the crime.
In the afternoon police are believed to have escorted the parents back to their home briefly.

The family bought the Coorparoo property as a vacant block of land in February 2009, built a house and sold it in late 2011 for $845,000.
Previously the McEwans had owned properties at Narangba, north of Brisbane, and before that at Tivoli, Ipswich.
 
Eunji Ban 'dragged by feet up stairs'
By STUART LAYT
AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS
4:44PM AUGUST 8, 2018

‘Alex Reuben McEwan told police a "demon inside his head" made him brutally bash a Korean woman, drag her up a set of concrete stairs and dump her in a Brisbane park to die, a court has heard.

He has pleaded not guilty to murdering Eunji Ban in the city's centre in the early hours of November 24, 2013, but admits to her manslaughter.’

‘His lawyer argues his schizophrenia left him unable to control himself when he killed Ms Ban.’

‘The trial is on Thursday expected to hear the police interview of McEwan following his arrest, along with more scientific and forensic evidence.’

Nocookies
 
Schizophrenia had 'no role' in Qld killing
By WARREN BARNSLEY
AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS
AN HOUR AGO (as at 16:13) AUGUST 17, 2018
Nocookies

‘Treating psychiatrist Angela Voita has testified McEwan's schizophrenia did not play a role "at all" in affecting his behaviour during the alleged offence.

She believes McEwan was "very intoxicated", with the alcohol helping to bring out his violent tendencies.

"Because it was violent, it doesn't mean it was due to a mental illness," Dr Voita, clinical director of The Park Centre for Mental Health, told Brisbane Supreme Court on Friday.

"There doesn't appear any significant change in his behaviour or how he interacted with others to suggest he was experiencing a psychotic episode."’
 
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