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‘NO NEW EVIDENCE’ CLAIMS LAWYER FOR BOYFRIEND OF SLAIN GERMAN BACKPACKER

The case against the boyfriend of slain German backpacker Simone Strobel is fundamentally flawed based on theories and ideas with no new evidence, a Sydney magistrate has been told.

Tim Game SC in the Downing Centre Local Court on Wednesday made a bail application for Tobias Friedrich Moran who appeared via video link from jail.

The now 42-year-old had been travelling around Australia with Strobel when her body was found near a Lismore caravan park in 2005.

The 25-year-old schoolteacher had allegedly been suffocated with a pillow or plastic bag.

Strobel’s killing has remained unsolved despite the establishment of a police strike force and the NSW government offering a $1 million reward in 2020.

“There is no evidence direct or indirect that Mr Moran assaulted her in the van,” Moran’s lawyer said today.

And it would be an “insane thing for a person to do,” to dump the body 100 metres away from where he is accused of murdering her, before booking back into the campsite with two alleged accomplices on the same day.

Game said the police left out evidence such as witness statements of hearing screams coming from outside the caravan park.

The man formerly known as Tobias Suckfuell altered his surname following his marriage, and was not trying to be “sneaky” as police claimed, he said.

Moran’s wife has offered $200,000 in security to relieve her husband of the “inhumane conditions,” he has been subject to in custody, the court was told.

The bail application continues.

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Madison Boland

Madison is the Social Media Producer at NBN News in Newcastle. Madison completed a Bachelor of Communication and has a love for all things digital.

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