Defending the Indefensible - #143

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Tim Marsh defends people we call monsters. He’s Chief Counsel at Victoria Legal Aid, and in the last year alone he’s represented 2 men charged with crimes that rocked the nation. Tim joins us to tell us why he does it, how he copes with it, and about the surprising encounter with a victim’s family member that devastated him.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

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0:00.0	We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,
0:04.3	and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.
0:07.5	Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.
0:10.3	Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,
0:15.2	our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bizina in
0:19.9	Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly.
0:28.9	We acknowledge the traditional owners of the One was a 15 year old boy, one was a 16 year old boy, the 15 year old boy I knew from the age of 8. My youngest children went to school with him and he had this way about him.
1:01.4	We liked him. He was cheeky and we liked him. I suppose we felt sorry for him.
1:22.0	My mother was 73 years of age and she was bashed, she was stood on, her ribs were broken, her nose was broken, she was bashed in the head.
1:25.0	She hemorrhaged from other parts of the body still was alive there was still that fight in her.
1:36.0	They tried to smother her these two youth offenders and they strangled her after many hours of torture.
1:44.0	This is Australian True Crime with Michelle Laurie and Emily Webb.
1:51.0	Come with us as we go beyond the news cycle to find out how people become killers, how people become victims and what happens next.
2:00.0	And I suppose I would say at that very horrific end of the system we need to keep in mind with those young people as much as we would want revenge as much as we would want punitive outcomes for those young people involved.
2:13.2	Potentially they are going to be members of our community again.
2:16.8	Having spent time in a system coming out more damaged, more hardened, more violence,
2:22.4	that is in no way going to contribute to longer-term
2:24.9	community safety. I suppose that's what we just need to keep reminding the
2:28.8	community that this is all about community safety this is all about stopping their being victims.
2:36.6	She rang me when the killers came to the house and I wasn't home.
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