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Andrew Mark Mallard, British-born Mr Mallard, who lived in Mosman Park, was a petty thief with a marijuana habit who was prone to telling far-fetched stories.
The day before Mrs Lawrence was found dead, Mr Mallard was charged over a burglary and impersonating a police officer, relating to a tale he spun in various forms which involved him being a police informant acting as an undercover drug agent.
Mr Mallard was also, according to a psychiatrist who later testified at his pre-trial hearing, in the manic stage of a bipolar mood disorder.
The WA legal system would hear from this vulnerable “drifter”, who suffered from mental illness, and who had been wrongly convicted of murdering Mosman Park jewellery store owner Pamela Lawrence.
In fact, it was just the beginning. More than 10 years of legal appeals — during which sensational claims of withheld evidence, police corruption and bias in the judicial system and the media were aired — would follow before Mr Mallard would walk out of Casuarina Prison, exonerated.
RIEP Andrew xo
Video credit to ABC News in Depth
Horrific True Crimes & Lies
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