Talissa Siganto

The first thing I noticed is Marie herself wasn't there and that's not completely unusual.

They don't usually need to appear at reviews.

So she was represented by her lawyer and

And the matter gets called after a little while of waiting and the DPP gets up and simply asks the judge for all of her remaining charges in the Supreme Court.

That was the alleged murder of Erin and some associated fraud charges to be completely discontinued.

Well, effectively straight after Marie was acquitted of her son's murder, her lawyer indicated that they were going to be making submissions to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and that they were pretty confident that the second murder charge would be finalised.

Now, in legal terms, the word finalised doesn't always mean the charge will be dropped, so...

That can sort of translate to potentially there being a plea deal.

There could have been a situation where she may have pleaded guilty to some downgraded charges in other murder cases.

This often translates to a manslaughter guilty plea.

It could also mean that things may still be progressing in the sense that they're trying to have the charges thrown out, but the DPP may not accept that.

So we weren't too sure if everything was going to come to a head on that review.

We definitely knew we were going to hear something about the case.

The whole point of a review is to get an update on where things are at pre-trial.

It was sort of one of those things that, you know, people weren't directly saying it, but everyone knew that is what the defence were pointing to, that this charge was going to be dropped.

So ultimately, that is what happened.

So the official lines from the DPP were that after the acquittal at trial last month of Jonathan's murder, they carried out a review of all the outstanding evidence in this second murder charge.

They ultimately decided there were no longer any reasonable prospects of conviction if they were to take this second murder charge to trial.

Well, we don't know the exact evidence that was going to be presented at this second murder trial, but based on what was brought up at an earlier committal hearing, we do know that a lot of the witnesses were the same in terms of friends and family members who would be acting as scene setters and talking about murder.

what Marie may have said to her daughter before and after her death or how she may have acted around her.