PERTH, Australia, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A prominent lawyer in Western Australia was charged Wednesday with killing his wife in 2007.
The charges were announced a few hours after Lloyd Rayney was arrested in Perth, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported. He was expected to appear in Magistrate's Court Thursday to answer a charge of willful murder.
Corryn Rayney was last seen alive as she left a line dancing class in August 2007. A week later, her body was found buried in Kings Park in downtown Perth.
Her husband quickly became a suspect and the major focus of the investigation. He sued for defamation after a police officer called him the "only suspect" in September 2007, an action that is still open.
Rayney is a former Crown prosecutor who was involved in the prosecution of Robert Hughes, the art critic now living in the United States who was charged with dangerous driving after he was involved in a collision during a 1999 visit to his native Australia. Rayney, whose family is originally from Yemen, later charged Hughes made a racist comment to him and settled a defamation case in 2003.
