Michael again appealed in December 2003 and is currently awaiting the result of the appeal regarding the original verdict.

The original verdict was later overturned and friends of Picton covered the court costs.

He described the original verdict as having "left us all with a deep sense of personal frustration and anguish".

An appeal court said fresh evidence presented last month could have had a bearing on the jury's original verdict.

In the end, the original verdict was upheld and Brown was ordered to pay the court costs of $346.25 to the defendants.

"I suffered years of psychological abuse," she said when the original verdict was handed down last year.

The case took more than 11 years to conclude due to an appeal and a retrial following the original not guilty verdict.

The original verdict of suicide being overturned by an open verdict.

But the period from the original verdict until the reversal was often one of apprehension for newspaper editors.

But the court in Israel rightly refused to uphold the original verdict on the basis of evidence not raised at the trial.