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The judges ordered a re-trial, which means it is back to square one for the prosecution to prove that Tiwary murdered 26-year-old Tay Chow Lyang and 27-year-old Tan Poh Chuan in the Sydney apartment the three men shared.
RAM Tiwary's cousin said the appeal decision showed what the accused had been maintaining all along - his innocence.
Mr Ramesh Tiwary, a Singapore lawyer, said his cousin had been 'quietly optimistic' that things would work out and he would get a retrial, even as he served time in prison.
Tiwary is currently detained at a prison in Lithgow, about three hours' drive from Sydney. He has been in jail for more than four years.
About the case
TWO Singaporean men studying at the University of New South Wales in Sydney were found murdered in their apartment in September 2003.
The bodies of Mr Tony Tan Poh Chuan, 27, and Mr Tay Chow Lyang, 26, were found by their Singaporean flatmate Ram Puneet Tiwary, then 24.
Tiwary claimed he had been asleep that morning and woke to find his two friends dead. Police arrested him for the double murders only eight months later.
Why Re-trial
He earned a reprieve last December when a New South Wales Appeal Court ruled that the way the trial judge instructed the jury to regard the evidence presented was improper.
The judges also felt some of the evidence presented by the prosecution did not support a conviction, but they also said they were not convinced Tiwary should be acquitted.
Tiwary is accused of murdering his fellow Singaporeans Tay Chow Lyang, 26, and Tony Tan Poh Chuan, 27, in September 2003 in a duplex apartment they shared near the University of New South Wales campus in Barker Street where they all studied.
He allegedly bashed and stabbed Mr Tay to death sometime before noon on Sept 5, 2003, and then did the same to Mr Tan when he returned from school two hours later.
The prosecution's case was that he killed them over a dispute over money - they had dug up evidence that Tiwary owed them money for rent.
Round two of the trial, which has been set for three weeks, will involve 20 witnesses.
It is understood that several witnesses from Singapore will also be travelling to Sydney to testify, though the relatives of the two murdered men have chosen not to go.
The judges ordered a re-trial, which means it is back to square one for the prosecution to prove that Tiwary murdered 26-year-old Tay Chow Lyang and 27-year-old Tan Poh Chuan in the Sydney apartment the three men shared.
RAM Tiwary's cousin said the appeal decision showed what the accused had been maintaining all along - his innocence.
Mr Ramesh Tiwary, a Singapore lawyer, said his cousin had been 'quietly optimistic' that things would work out and he would get a retrial, even as he served time in prison.
Tiwary is currently detained at a prison in Lithgow, about three hours' drive from Sydney. He has been in jail for more than four years.
About the case
TWO Singaporean men studying at the University of New South Wales in Sydney were found murdered in their apartment in September 2003.
The bodies of Mr Tony Tan Poh Chuan, 27, and Mr Tay Chow Lyang, 26, were found by their Singaporean flatmate Ram Puneet Tiwary, then 24.
Tiwary claimed he had been asleep that morning and woke to find his two friends dead. Police arrested him for the double murders only eight months later.
Why Re-trial
He earned a reprieve last December when a New South Wales Appeal Court ruled that the way the trial judge instructed the jury to regard the evidence presented was improper.
The judges also felt some of the evidence presented by the prosecution did not support a conviction, but they also said they were not convinced Tiwary should be acquitted.
Tiwary is accused of murdering his fellow Singaporeans Tay Chow Lyang, 26, and Tony Tan Poh Chuan, 27, in September 2003 in a duplex apartment they shared near the University of New South Wales campus in Barker Street where they all studied.
He allegedly bashed and stabbed Mr Tay to death sometime before noon on Sept 5, 2003, and then did the same to Mr Tan when he returned from school two hours later.
The prosecution's case was that he killed them over a dispute over money - they had dug up evidence that Tiwary owed them money for rent.
Round two of the trial, which has been set for three weeks, will involve 20 witnesses.
It is understood that several witnesses from Singapore will also be travelling to Sydney to testify, though the relatives of the two murdered men have chosen not to go.
