Richard Baker
speaker
1,706 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Richard Baker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This coroner would have the chance to consider how important it was.
But what she made of it would be a matter of wait and see.
Perhaps one of the most important witnesses at Simone's second inquest wasn't a person of interest in her murder.
But the person who'd been trying to solve it all along.
Dave Mackey was the detective who'd been on the case the entire time.
The one who charged Toby and arrested him at his home in Perth.
He took over as officer in charge of the investigation in two thousand and twelve.
He'd actually been the one who'd initiated this inquest by applying for it through the courts.
Now he was in the witness box.
And he would be there for hours.
Because that long held police theory.
That Toby killed Simone.
was about to have its strengths and weaknesses tested.
The council assisting Philip Strickland S.
C.
had already reminded those listening that by this point Toby had been arrested, charged, and released, and the charges were found to have been laid without reasonable grounds.
Now that the criminal case against Toby had collapsed,
Had Detective Mackie changed his views?
The answer was no.
Detective Mackie told the court he still believed it was probable that Toby killed Simone.
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