00:01Susan Neal Fraser was convicted of the 2009 murder of her partner Bob Chappell on board
00:07his yacht in Hobart. She was released on parole in 2022. In 2024, Tasmania's parole board imposed
00:14a condition upon Susan Neal Fraser, preventing her from either directly or indirectly in the
00:21media expressing that she was innocent or had been wrongly convicted. Her lawyers said that
00:26that effectively robbed her of her political freedom. That parole condition was overturned
00:32yesterday by Tasmania's Supreme Court. Justice Stephen Escort found that it was invalid and
00:37legally unreasonable. It also emerged that the parole board had created a document justifying
00:43this ban using artificial intelligence. Its secretary had put together the document. It cited
00:49case law that didn't exist and was instead likely AI hallucinations. That's prompted a pretty
00:56stern rebuke going forward. And upon being notified of this by Susan Neal Fraser's lawyers,
01:03it was dropped by the parole board. And then that decision was ratified yesterday by the Supreme
01:08Court. Tasmania's legal industry is quite worried about what's happened here. The Prisoners Society
01:15has launched its own review of all parole decisions to see where AI might have been used in decision
01:21making. Tasmania's Attorney General has issued a please explain to the parole board about its
01:27processes going forward as well. But for Susan Neal Fraser, she says she's just motivated now to be
01:33able to speak her mind and claim that she is innocent of the crime that she was convicted of. And
01:39we'll wait
01:39to see how she does that going forward. There's lots of interest in this case and potentially maybe going
01:44forward a parliamentary inquiry or some legal avenues that she'll pursue.
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