Lloyd Rayney formally denies Australian murder charge
Former Bermuda prosecutor Lloyd Rayney has pleaded not guilty to murdering his estranged wife in Australia in 2007.Mr Rayney lived on the Island with his wife Corryn Rayney when he worked as a Senior Crown counsel for the Department of Public Prosecutions in 2003 and 2004. The pair, who have two daughters, later moved to Perth where Mr Rayney continued to work as a high-profile prosecutor.Mrs Rayney, who worked as a Supreme Court Registrar in Western Australia, went missing after attending a line-dancing class on August 7, 2007.Her body was found in a bushland grave in a Perth park nine days later. Mr Rayney was arrested in Perth city centre in December 2010 and charged with the killing.He was remanded into custody, but was released in January, according to the Australian Associated Press [AAP], so he could care for his teenage daughters and because of the judge’s concern over the strength of the prosecution case.The AAP reported that he pleaded not guilty yesterday, Wednesday June 8, at the Stirling Gardens Magistrates’ Court in Perth.Mr Rayney’s bail was renewed and he will next appear in the Western Australia Supreme Court on July 4.