An innocent man spent 20 years in prison so that the Corporation of The Crown didn’t have to pay compensation.

Chris Kourakis in 2004, while serving as the South Australian Solicitor-General, withheld the Vernon Roberts Report from the SA Governor. This report was an independent expert opinion stating that forensic evidence did not support a homicide scenario in the Keogh case, suggesting instead that the death was a slip-and-fall accident. Kourakis is accused of providing advice on Keogh’s Third Petition for Clemency while intentionally omitting this exculpatory evidence.
Henry Keogh was accused of murder. Because the exculpatory evidence was withheld, Henry’s petition for a court referral was rejected, and he remained incarcerated for 20 years for a murder that Andrew says could not have occurred.
Although Keogh’s conviction was eventually quashed after the report was released nearly 10 years later, he was not acquitted. Andrew believes that this was a deliberate tactic by the Crown (under Kourakis’s instruction) to avoid the payment of compensation and protect state revenue.
Andrew concludes in this document that because of these actions, Kourakis’s subsequent appointment and current position as Chief Justice of South Australia is “untenable”, meaning incapable of being defended, maintained, or occupied. He explains the entire affair as a “glass house shattered,” representing a systemic collapse of the rule of law in Australia.