Article: NSW: Judge directs acquittal in love bomb case


AAP General News (Australia)
02-29-2008
NSW: Judge directs acquittal in love bomb case

SYDNEY, Feb 29 AAP - A jury has been directed to acquit a Sydney couple accused of
conspiring to detonate a bomb in a popular city nightspot.

Hussan Kalache, 28, and his 27-year-old girlfriend Jill Allison Courtney were standing
trial in the NSW Supreme Court over an alleged plot to set off a car bomb in Kings Cross
in 2005.

Courtney allegedly agreed to plant a bomb in exchange for a promise of marriage from Kalache.

The prosecution mounted its case on a series of phone conversations between the pair
intercepted from Lithgow prison, where Kalache was serving a term for murder.

The couple were ...

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