An appeal is being sought against Mark Lundy's double murder conviction.
The Manawatu Evening Standard reports that Mike Behrens QC, the lawyer acting for Lundy, confirmed today that an application for an appeal was sent to the Court of Appeal yesterday but he would not elaborate on its specifics.
Justice Anthony Ellis
last week set a 17 year non-parole period, one of the longest for murder imposed in New Zealand, for Lundy, who was convicted of murdering his wife and daughter in Palmerston North the year before last.
Mr Behrens said that the grounds of the appeal were that the verdicts were unreasonable and not supported by the evidence and that there was a "miscarriage of justice" because of the unavailability of evidence.
No date had been set for the hearing, he added.
