{"id":25834,"date":"2021-02-04T07:16:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T07:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmatilda.com\/?p=140021"},"modified":"2021-02-04T07:16:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T07:16:09","slug":"eds-desk-bogan-evil-doers-with-links-to-ivan-milat-thrill-court-watchers-with-matching-white-forensic-jumpsuits-and-forlorn-expressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/04\/eds-desk-bogan-evil-doers-with-links-to-ivan-milat-thrill-court-watchers-with-matching-white-forensic-jumpsuits-and-forlorn-expressions\/","title":{"rendered":"ED\u2019S DESK: Bogan Evil-Doers With Links To Ivan Milat Thrill Court Watchers With Matching White Forensic Jumpsuits And Forlorn Expressions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you’re going to appear in court on apparently unnamed but really serious charges, then it’s important to look your best. As for coordinating your outfit with your alleged accomplice… fabulous.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/span>\n\n\n\n

ED\u2019S DESK is a new semi-regular column by New Matilda, where we give readers an inside look at the sub-editing process involved in news-making. Or at least, we give you an inside look at what should have been the sub-editing process to correct a steaming pile of sh*t story that actually got published, despite holes in it you could drive a truck through. On that note, over to The Daily Telegraph….<\/strong>
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[HEADLINE] Alleged kidnappers \u2018may have been driving to Belanglo\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[BYLINE] Perry Duffin | The Daily Telegraph<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[INTRO] Police are investigating whether two young women, allegedly found by police with a stabbed 24-year-old woman in the car\u2019s boot on a highway, were headed to Belanglo State Forest. The revelation comes as a court refused to release them from custody.<\/strong>
[ED\u2019S NOTES:] Perry\u2026 your headline with \u2018may have been driving to Belanglo\u2019 in single quotes suggests we\u2019ve quoted someone saying that. Have we quoted someone saying that? Or have you made that up? Also, the two young women were not \u201callegedly found by police\u201d. It\u2019s not a criminal offence to be ‘found’ (or even arrested) by police, so there’s nothing to allege. What IS ‘alleged’ is that they had a \u2018stabbed woman in the car\u2019s boot\u2019. Which probably IS a criminal offence. But WHAT criminal offence, Perry? The story doesn\u2019t appear to detail any.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[BODY COPY] Latia Henderson, 18, and Kayley Ketley, 24, were hit with a slew of charges last night after a truck driver spotted a hand sticking out from a hole in the boot, according to police.<\/strong>
[ED’S NOTES] Sorry Perry, I stand corrected. When I said \u2018The story doesn\u2019t appear to detail any charges\u2019, I hadn\u2019t realized the very next paragraph revealed that the women \u201cwere hit with a slew of charges\u201d. My mistake. But if you get time, defining what a \u2018slew of charges\u2019 is would be really helpful. Given both women were ultimately refused bail, I\u2019m presuming the court at some point probably mentioned what they were being refused bail for? No rush or stress though\u2026 I don\u2019t want to pressure you… if you get around to it\u2026 thank you.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Holden Commodore had been travelling down the Hume Highway, near Berrima in the Southern Highlands, at around 11.30am yesterday when the driver spotted the woman\u2019s hand. The Daily Telegraph can reveal police believe the car may have been bound for Belanglo State Forest. Sources are said to be investigating if the car\u2019s navigation system had been programmed to the forest south of Sydney.<\/strong>
\u2018Sources\u2019 are said to be investigating? Do you mean \u2018police are said to be investigating\u2019? And if so, \u2018said\u2019 by whom? Did lawyers say police are investigating? Or is it just you saying that? Why don\u2019t you just ask police, and then quote them? Please clarify.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Henderson and Ketley appeared in Picton Local Court just after lunch on Thursday. Henderson\u2019s lawyer Gazi Abbas did not apply for release and it was formally refused while she sat looking forlorn in a white forensic jumpsuit on the audio-visual link.<\/strong>
‘Just after lunch’… I really love the detail, Perry, but are you referring to a specific time? Like, say, midday? In which case, just state it. Otherwise it sounds like the ‘girls met for a bit of lunch, and then toddled off to court shortly after’. Also, why would Henderson\u2019s lawyer be sitting \u2018looking forlorn in a white forensic jumpsuit on the audio-visual link’? Are you sure it wasn\u2019t Henderson herself in the \u2018jumpsuit\u2019? Henderson\u2019s lawyer should have been sitting in court. But if it WAS Henderson\u2019s lawyer, then THAT\u2019s the headline: \u2018Forlorn looking lawyer in fetching white jumpsuit tries to represent client from jail\u2019. Please clarify. Also, unless what you actually attended earlier today was an impromptu Picton pyjama party, it\u2019s called a \u2018crime scene suit\u2019, not a \u2018jumpsuit\u2019. Please amend.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ketley tried her luck, without a lawyer, at being released on bail. \u201cMy grandmother is very sick,\u201d she told the court from the sterile, stainless steel AVL suite where she too wore a white forensic suit.<\/strong>
Perry… firstly, you don\u2019t \u2018try your luck\u2019 at getting bail. It\u2019s a court, not a fucking casino. Secondly, it\u2019s not the fucking Oscars either. We don\u2019t care what she was wearing, and we would only care if they’d coordinated their outfits prior to being arrested. Thirdly, how do you know the \u2018stainless steel AVL suite\u2019 was sterile? Is there a COVID-19 angle we\u2019ve missed? Please investigate, and amend.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI would be asking to be released into her care at her address so I can care for her\u2026 I would do whatever I have to do.\u201d But the magistrate told Ketley she was facing very serious charges and had failed to justify her release. She ran her fingers through her hair exasperated and said she would accept Legal Aid help. Ketley asked the magistrate what would justify her release. \u201cI don\u2019t give legal advice anymore,\u201d he said. \u201cThese are very serious offences, please obtain legal advice.\u201d<\/strong>
Okay Perry, the magistrate\u2019s comments are pretty funny. Kudos for including them. But please remove the reference to the accused \u2018running her fingers through her hair, exasperated\u2019. This is a court report, not a fucking Jane Austen novel.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two men with face tattoos and sunglasses accompanied another woman, believed to be a relative, to the country courthouse in the morning.<\/strong>
Right\u2026 where the actual fuck are you going with the story now, Perry? If you\u2019re trying to suggest these people are \u2018bags of shit\u2019 and should be vilified, please refer to The Daily Telegraph in-house style manual for guidance. For example, can we make race a factor in this story by reporting that their lawyers are ‘from Aboriginal Legal Aid’? Can we work the phrase \u2018African or Islander appearance\u2019 into the story somehow? Was the mother wearing a ‘hijab’ or a ‘headscarf’? Did someone use a word that sounded foreign? And for future reference, face tattoos may indicate a certain level of \u2018bad-arsery\u2019, which is what I think you\u2019re going for, but sunglasses don\u2019t. Most people wear sunglasses at some point in their life, Perry. Unless they’re wearing them indoors, it doesn’t denote class anymore. Also, I realize that you might think anything west of Annandale is outside NSW, and that you may have ‘spotted a horse in a paddock’ on your arduous journey all the way out to Picton, but it doesn\u2019t have a \u2018country courthouse\u2019 because it\u2019s a suburb of Greater Sydney. Please amend.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only the woman stayed for Henderson\u2019s hearing. She refused to speak to media waiting outside and tried to cross the road to escape questions.<\/strong>
Right… so the bad lady didn\u2019t want to answer your questions. Don\u2019t take it personally, Perry. It happens. More importantly, did the bad lady who is \u2018possibly maybe a relative but we don\u2019t really know but what the fuck let\u2019s just report that anyway\u2019 actually make it across the road? Or did she just try<\/strong> to make it across the road? Don\u2019t leave us all hanging, Perry, tell us if she succeeded! If she didn\u2019t, then THAT is the headline\u2026 \u2018Mystery woman who has friends with face tattoos and sunglasses tries unsuccessfully to cross road\u2019. That\u2019s one-third of a \u2018Three Headings Walkley’ right there, Perry. Be a team player, please.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Abbas said he had no instructions on whether Henderson would fight the charges but said his client was distressed in custody \u2013 saying it was \u201cjarring\u201d for her. They will return to Campbelltown Local Court on April 7.<\/strong>
Right\u2026 so that\u2019s it then is it, Perry? That\u2019s the end of the story, yeah? You sure? I know you\u2019re only a court reporter, but did it occur you to maybe update readers on the condition of the fucking woman who was fucking well \u2018allegedly found\u2019 with \u2018multiple stab wounds in the boot of a car\u2019? Otherwise it looks like we don\u2019t actually give a flying fuck about the violence she endured, and we\u2019re just trying to scare the shit out of people with a story about Belanglo Forest\u2026 even though at no point in the story do we actually explain why Belanglo is so fucking terrifying. Which brings me to my main point, Perry: You could have worked the words \u2018Ivan Milat\u2019 into the headline and then the story on innumerable occasions. I shouldn\u2019t have to do it for you. Please stop by my office before you leave this evening.<\/em> – Ed.<\/p>\n

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