Today there is good news afoot. Good news for our beleaguered justice system and good news for one of the victims of it. First the best of the good news. Bilynda Williams, mother of murdered baby Jaidyn Leskie (1997) has given birth to twins! Bilynda has at different times, been a reader of this site and I hope she reads this when she comes home from hospital.
I am very proud of her, she is the epitome of the Aussie battler. She was dealt a devastating hand in legal terms when her son was murdered. A blow that would have destroyed a lesser person. At the time of young Jaidyn’s death, I along with most of the country, believed she was a hopeless case. A mother who left her son with a moron, who most probably killed him. With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight I now happily concede I was wrong. It was wrong to judge her on the merits of one (admittedly bad) decision. With hindsight and 10 years more maturity, I now see that going out to party when your a mother is not a crime. (Quick rundown for those not familiar with the case. Bilynda went to the pub and left her baby son with a fool named Greg….more on him later in this post. The child was found months later dead, bashed and thrown in a lake weighed down by a crowbar. Greg was tried but acquitted, many people think he is guilty and got away with murder).
Bilynda was a young mother, struggling to raise her children. Going out was a rare treat and she made the most of it, that is not a crime either. Her only real downfall was that she left her child with the wrong person. I suspect the same 10 years that has taught me so much, has taught Bilynda very much more.
Anyway, congratulations Bilynda! Your babies are beautiful, and I wish you all the luck and happiness possible.
Speaking of luck and happiness for Bilynda Williams, this story also came out today.
VICTORIA’S most infamous unsolved murder – that of toddler Jaidyn Leskie – could go back to trial amid calls for changes to Australia’s double jeopardy law.
The Federal Government wants to make retrospective the proposed abolition of the 800-year-old law.
That means those who have already been acquitted of murder, such as the prime suspect in Leskie’s murder, Greg Domaszewicz, could be retried if new evidence has come to light.
I swear on a stack of Black Sabbath (peace be upon OZZY) records that if he is retried and found guilty I will shout a round of drinks for anyone who wishes to show up at my “drink myself into a celebratory stupor” evening.
It will be a momentous day in the history of our justice system. It will finally lay to rest the ghost of young Jaidyn, and his death will not go unsolved.
Bilynda has every right to be a beaming happy mother on this day.
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