THE man accused of murdering Reuben Stack in East Fremantle on May 21 made a brief appearance in the Supreme Court Tuesday.
Shannon John Davies, 38, from Orelia appeared via video link from Hakea Prison, and wasn’t required to plead. His lawyer George Christou asked the court for time to assess a huge tranche of information he’d been given by police a week ago.
Mr Christou said the information included 40 DVDs of crime scene videos and interviews, plus a swag of statements: “It needs a lot of time to get through that,” he said.
Mr Davies was remanded in custody to appear again October 28.
There needs to be FAR MORE information and coverage of this case. Reuben was dearly loved and the whole community needs to know “WHY?”
SO WHERE IS THE INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN SHANNONS COURT APPEARANCE? This pathetic paper prides itself on bringing the community information and stories, where is the communities security in knowing this evil murderer is behind bars for what he’s done!?
Or isn’t this story within “The Herald”‘s interest anymore?
PATHETIC!
Hi Andy. Yes, we should have done a quick update, but his appearance on that date was very brief and constituted no more than setting a date for his next appearance. In case you missed our story, Shannon John Davies has pleaded guilty to murdering Reuben Stack, as well as dealing drugs and breaking into the house Reuben shared with his father and stealing 400 coins. There wasn’t much information about what happened, but that’s likely to emerge during his sentencing hearing on May 11. And sorry about not posting your comment earlier – with Davies not having entered a plea, his case was sub judice (before the law) and therefore we couldn’t print any reference to him being a “murderer” because it could have potentially led to his trial being aborted – assumption of innocence and all that.