A truck driver who killed a Victorian police officer after knowing brakes were faulty has successfully appealed the length of his sentence. His previous non-parole period was slashed by seven months.
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One of the men nabbed over the infamous tomato tins ecstasy haul has failed to overturn his conviction after he appealed partly due to the involvement of barrister-turned-informer Nicola Gobbo in his case.
Jan Visser was jailed for at least eight years in 2014 after being found guilty of conspiring to possess 15 million ecstasy tablets stashed in tomato tins shipped on the MV Monica from Italy in 2007.
Jan Visser (right) seen in an AFP surveillance photo in Melbourne with crime figure Pasquale Barbaro.
Visser appealed his conviction on a couple of grounds. He had obtained new statements from two of his co-conspirators â Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli â that claimed Visser thought there was illegal tobacco in the containers and not ecstasy.
Killerâs brother gets more jail time for New Year terror attack plan
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An aspiring terrorist who planned to kill new yearâs revellers at Melbourneâs Federation Square has had his prison term increased by six years on appeal.
Ali Khalif Shire Ali, younger brother of Bourke Street attacker Hassan Khalif Shire Ali, intended to use an AK-47 assault rifle to kill as many people as he could in the name of Islamic State as the clock ticked down to midnight on December 31, 2017.
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Jan Visser is serving 11 years behind bars for his role in the tomato tins drug haul
The drug syndicate conspied to import a shipment of more than 15 million pills
The shipment of ecstasy pills was imported inside tomato tins from Italy in 2007
Visser appealed on the basis lawyer Nicola Gobbo had meddled in his trial
Gobbo provided police with the bill of lading that led to the arrest of dozens
Visser s appeal was knocked back on Friday by the Supreme Court of Appeal
The first of the notorious Tomato Tins drug syndicate to try and escape jail on the back of the Lawyer X scandal has failed.