Alva Beach: Death At The Door

As many implore the families of the victims to "let it go", a shocking revelation reignites their fight for a second inquest. In a stunning final twist - it’s revealed the Coroner who led the first inquest did refer Dean Webber to the Director of Public Prosecutions suspecting he may have committed an indictable offence.
Though prosecutors found no reasonable prospects of success in charging Dean Webber with Murder, and hopes for a second inquest were denied, the Davy and Christensen families remain defiant.

The 2020 Coronial Inquest into the Alva Beach deaths was meant to bring answers, instead it left confusion and outrage in its wake. As the week spiralled into chaos, lawyers stormed out of the Cairns courthouse, the Coroner was asked to stand down over fears of bias and the key witness - Dean Webber - was excused from giving evidence. 

Retired Coroner David Heilpern joins the podcast with an independent and expert legal view - and a damning assessment: the inquest failed in its purpose to get to the truth.

This episode unravels the lies, contradictions and missing pieces in the stories of the only two surviving witnesses to Alva Beach, aside from Dean Webber -  Louis Bengoa and Candice Locke.
Through police interviews, sworn statements and inquest testimony, their changing accounts reveal a tangled web of embellishment and uncertainty. But can their words ever truly explain how, and why, two men ended up dead that night?

Could police have missed a second knife the night Tom Davy and Corey Christensen were killed?
In the lead up to the inquest, internal investigators probe paramedics and police. For the first time, unreleased interviews shed light on what was uncovered - startling claims of a missing weapon, critical failures in the response and mistakes that left Dean Webber’s desperate calls for help a low priority until it was far too late.

Police walk Dean Webber back through the scene, but were they ever intending on charging him? Adam Hegarty tracks down the lead detective on the case, Gavin Neale, to put key questions to him on the delayed response, the investigation and the decision to never lay charges. 
As the Davy family lawyer argues why the forensic investigation should have gone further - it raises the question; Who does a lack of evidence support in this case?