An Adelaide man who spent almost two decades in jail has again denied drowning his fiancee in the bath in 1994.
Henry Victor Keogh, now 59, pleaded not guilty in the South Australian Supreme Court on Monday to murdering Anna-Jane Cheney, 29, in the bath tub of their Adelaide home.
His murder conviction was set aside last December, when the Court of Criminal Appeal ordered him to face a retrial.
Keogh, who was subsequently granted bail, was jailed for at least 25 years after being convicted of Ms Cheney’s murder.
He lost numerous appeals, but the conviction was overturned after new SA legislation allowed him to challenge the verdict on the basis of fresh and compelling evidence.
The Appeal Court concluded the trial had amounted to a miscarriage of justice, finding the autopsy on Ms Cheney was “inadequate in material respects”.
The judges said the opinions of the then-chief forensic pathologist were no more than prejudicial speculation and that he failed to consider other possible causes of death.
The case has been adjourned to March 20 for a directions hearing.
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