BERMUDA - Former Bermuda prosecutor charged with killing wife in Australia
Published:Friday | December 10, 2010 | 12:00 AM
HAMILTON, Bermuda (CMC):
A former Bermuda prosecutor has been charged with murdering his estranged wife in his native Australia, three years after she vanished, media here reported.
Lloyd Rayney lived in Bermuda with his wife Corryn, a mother of two, when he worked for the Department of Public Prosecutions in 2003 and 2004.
They then moved to Perth in Western Australia, where Rayney carried on practising as a high-profile lawyer.
His 44-year-old wife, a former Western Australia Supreme Court registrar, went missing in August 2007.
Her body was found in a bush grave nine days later.
Police named Rayney shortly afterwards as their prime and only suspect in the killing.
The announcement prompted him to launch defamation proceedings against Western Australia police, which are ongoing.
According to news reports from Australia, detectives charged Rayney with willful murder on Wednesday, after arresting him in the city and questioning him for several hours.