A MAN convicted on three occasions of murdering his secret lover has had his latest appeal rejected.
Jamie Lee Warn (58) was convicted in December of murdering Zsuzsanna Besenyei in May 2018. He was sentenced in March.
The Royal Court had heard that Warn murdered the Hungarian national, put her body in the boot of her own care before dumping her body at Le Pulec – commonly known as Stinky Bay.
During his third trial, Warn was accused of embarking on an ‘elaborate cover-up’ after dumping Miss Besenyei’s body. This included driving her car to the low-tide mark near St Aubin as part of efforts to make it appear as if she had taken her own life.
Warn was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 17 years.
He had twice successfully had his conviction quashed and launched a third appeal arguing that the latest verdict had been unreasonable, that the verdict was not supported by the evidence, that there was no case to answer and that there was a miscarriage of justice.
Delivering the Court of Appeal’s judgement George Bompas QC said: ‘We have reached the clear conclusion that the appellant has failed to advance grounds which have any realistic prospect of persuading this court that his conviction should be quashed. Accordingly, we refused the appellant’s application for leave to appeal against his conviction.’
Mr Bompas was sitting with Lord Anderson of Ipswich and Sir Wyn Williams.
*Full story in Tuesday’s JEP
