Lloyd Rayney Source: PerthNow
BARRISTER Lloyd Rayney will learn his fate tomorrow when the Supreme Court judge in his long running murder trial delivers his verdict.
Justice Brian Martin, QC, will announce his decision at 11.30am, bringing to a close one of WA's most intriguing criminal trials.
Mr Rayney has been on trial for three and a half months, charged with the wilful murder of his estranged wife Corryn Rayney, 44, on August 7, 2007.
If convicted, it is a charge that carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, with minimum terms ranging from 15 to 30 years jail.
Mr Rayney, 50, also faces an alternative count of manslaughter, which has a maximum penalty of 20 years jail.
The case has been heard before a judge who has been sitting without a jury.
During the trial, which began on July 16, Justice Martin heard from more than 100 witnesses, as well as received written statements from more than 200 others, and viewed more than 700 exhibits.
The State has contended that Mr Rayney is a calculated killer who murdered his wife, a Supreme Court registrar, because she was a threat to his private and professional life.
But Mr Rayney's lawyers have claimed he is an innocent man who had been wrongly targeted by police.
A big public turnout is expected for the verdict.
Perth barrister Tom Percy, QC, said he expected many members of Perth's legal fraternity to be in court - if they could get a seat.
Mr Percy said he hoped the courts would make arrangements for what was expected to be an "unprecedented'' public turn out.
He said the courts could have one or two other courtrooms available where members of the public, who hadn't been able to get a seat in the main courtroom, could watch the verdict via a videolink.
"I would hope they would have it beamed into another court room at the same time,'' he said.
"I can't remember a case that has attracted such public interest.''
Mr Rayney's civil action, in which he claims police defamed him in 2007 by identifying him as the prime and only suspect in his wife's death, is still before the courts, but was put on the backburner pending the outcome of the murder trial.
Mr Rayney also still faces a Commonwealth Telecommunications charge which relates to the tapping of the family's home telephone.
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