Is Des Campbell a serial womaniser and gold-digger who threw his new wife off a 50m cliff so that he could inherit her fortune? Or is he the victim of a miscarriage of justice, two years after being convicted of her murder?
Those are the questions that will confront the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal if Campbell, a former ambulance officer and English policeman, has his way.
He has instructed his lawyers to prepare an appeal against his conviction and hopes it will be heard in the next six months, the Sunday Telegraph reported yesterday.
Campbell was jailed for a minimum of 24 years for inflicting a "truly awful" death on Janet Fisciaro, his wife of six months, during a camping holiday in 2005 in the Royal National Park, just south of Sydney.
He told police she fell over the cliff while answering a call of nature. The jury found he pushed her, motivated by "monetary gain".