Jurors deliberate in Bond trial

Jurors in the trial of the man accused of murdering Melbourne woman Elisabeth Membrey will enter their third day of deliberations on Monday.

Shane Andrew Bond, 45, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Ms Membrey, who was last seen leaving the Manhattan Hotel in Ringwood in Melbourne’s east, where she worked as bartender, on December 6, 1994.

In his closing address in the Victorian Supreme Court trial, prosecutor Geoff Horgan, SC, urged jurors to accept the evidence of a witness who said that Bond was interested in Ms Membrey but she was not interested in him, and he had been rejected by her.

Mr Horgan said previous police investigations into the case that looked at other suspects were flawed.

Defence barrister Michael O’Connell, SC, told jurors there was no physical evidence against Bond and they would not be satisfied of his guilt.

Prosecutors had also failed to exclude the possibility that someone else had killed her, he said.

After a two-month trial before Justice Terry Forrest, jurors began deliberations on Friday.

They continued on Saturday but were unable to reach a verdict and will resume deliberations on Monday morning.

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