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11th April 2014

EDITORIAL AND NEWS CONTACT Mr Ali Rachid Ammoun
Chief of Staff c/o Acacia Prison
West Australian Newspaper Locked Bag 1
GPO Box D162 WOOROLOO, WA
PERTH, WA 6558
6840

CC: Colleen Egan Assistant Editor TheWest Australian Newspaper

RE: News Article Mr Ali Ammoun Attempted Murder Charge

To whom it may concern,

On the 23
rd
of January 2007 both your newspaper and online news web site produced a grossly in error report of
the alleged attempted murder of my ex-wife and mother in law. Here is the online article

A father of eight allegedly bashed his former mother in law with a hammer in her home for up to three
hours before luring his former wife to the house and stabbing her about 20 times.
Cockburn detectives allege Ali Ammoun, of Kenwick, broke into the Steinbeck Place home in
Spearwood about 8pm on Sunday.
It is alleged he tied the 61 year old grandmothers hands and feet together, then bashed her repeatedly
with a hammer and forced her to call her daughter and ask her to come to the house.
Once the daughter arrived, Mr Ammoun allegedly ambushed her, tied her hands and stabbed her
repeatedly.
Detectives believe Mr Ammoun separated the women, locking one in a bathroom while torturing the
other. But it is believed his former wife managed to escape by untying the restraints and raised the alarm
with the help of a neighbor. The second woman was also able to escape amid the confusion.

Here are statements in court from the two alleged victims as to their injuries. First, statements by my ex-wife
Tanya Joy Ammoun/Kepic who you claim in your news articletied her hands and stabbed her repeatedly.
And, stabbing her about 20 times. Colin Lovitt Q.C is cross examining -

All in the toilet area and there was blood all over the place, wasnt there all over the walls, according to
your account to the police?- - - There was blood on the left wall.

If you were slashed including in the throat. You were slashed in the throat. Is that right?- - - Yeah.

Is there any reason if you were slashed in the throat why the medical evidence doesnt refer to any injury
to the throat? - - - I dont know.

Any reason why your DNA is not I will put it this way: your blood doesnt seem to have been found in
the toilet? - - - Im not aware of what the forensic results are but I saw my blood on the wall.

7/2/08 AMMOUN, T.J. XXN 152

Will you print a correction? Your reporting was grossly in error.

With regards my mother in law Pamela Kepic you report bashed his former mother in law with a hammer
in her home for up to three hours. Here is my lawyer Colin Lovitts cross examination

You have never said you were stabbed or slashed, have you? - - - No. I have never said that.

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And we established before lunch you have never said that you saw a knife or anything remotely like a
knife that night? - - - No, I didnt.

Equally, dealing with the hammer, you dont allege that you were hit with the hammer, do you? You
just saw it there? - - - I saw it there. I dont remember being hit with it.

8/2/08 KEPIC, P.J. XXN 248

And further -

And you had all the bruises from punches? - - - I was black and blue.

Hit you in the face according to your statement, your back and your stomach? - - - Yes.

Yes. Thats the statement you made on 6 March, right? - - - I presume I did if you say so.

You had had time to consider from what you had been told what injuries you had. You had spoken to
doctors, doctors had examined you and the like? - - - The doctors said nothing about the bruising on my
body.

8/2/08 KEPIC, P.J. XXN 267


You also reported locking one in a bathroom while torturing the other. Who was tortured?

Will you print a correction? Your reporting was grossly in error.

Further absurdities to do with the witness statements of Pamela and Tanya Kepic are the glaring contradictions
of Pamela Kepic stating her hands and feet were bound with packing tape and that she had hopped down
the stairs and across the road to waiting neighbors where her hands and feet were freed. But, according to the
witness statements of Daniel Con Blogna, Paul Petrino, and Reubin Filipe Martins, Pamela Kepic had nothing
binding her feet and her hands were bound with a thin rope. It was a rope that her daughter had tied around her
wrists after they had knocked me out with a hammer and concocted their fabricated story to have me put in jail.
Again this is just one of dozens of absolute glaring, self-evident and ridiculous absurdities that infest the
prosecution case and that both prosecutor David Dempster and Justice Blaxell colluded to gloss over with every
trick known to the legal system. In that, at times, they were ably assisted by my own defense team.

Further to the tricks of the WA legal system, we see the same technique used at the infamous trial of Andrew
Mallard where a prosecution witness (forensic expert) was not called by the prosecution because their evidence
would not help the case. So it was in my trial where the main Detective Leisa Monique Reynolds was not
called by the prosecution. My defense team called her. She made the original statement to your newspaper on
23
rd
January 2007.

More simple glaring absurdities is asking the simple question of how Tanya Kepic managed to wrestle a knife
from my hands and then stab me with it (in the hand) and then end up unconscious across the road at 10
Barret Street where a red rope was cut off her hands by the mother of Goran June Marijan? Tanya Kepic is
certainly nimble. None of my DNA was found on either of the ropes. Your newspaper never bothered to
report these things? Why?

You also report that I attended the premises at 8pm when in fact I caught a taxi to the premises at around 5pm.
Why did you report that? This was an extremely important point as for the official story to hold up that I
arrived and immediately began terrorizing Pamela Kepic (mother in law) it would have to have me arriving at
8pm. I arrived around 5pm and we all talked for around three hours before I was attacked by my ex-wife.

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Both Tanya Ammoun/Kepic and her mother Pamela Kepic lied often and had grossly conflicting witness
statements three in total - the first of which the prosecution failed to produce at trial because it differed so
vastly from the further two statements of both women.

It was in fact myself that was attacked by my sociopathic, narcissistic ex-wife Tanya Ammoun/Kepic after we
had talked for over two hours about the children and I finally told her mother that her now dead husband had
sexually assaulted Tanya as a child. My ex-wife attacked me with the knife. My blood was on the blade. No
handle of the knife was ever found because WA police had removed it as only Tanya Ammouns DNA and
finger prints were on the handle. It was suggested in court that I had attacked my ex-wife so viciously it had
broken off. As you can see by cross examination by my lawyer this assertion is a fairy tale. Their wounds were
minor. Tanya Ammoun/Kepics wounds were the result of us both tumbling down outside stairs as I defended
myself from her frenzied knife attack. There were some minor puncture wounds on her lower abdomen self-
inflicted by Tanya. I am a 6ft 1 inch man who weighs 190 pounds. If I had wanted Tanya and Pamela Kepic
dead they would be dead. They would at least have serious injuries.

You should be well aware of the WA police services well-earned reputation for planting and removing evidence
hence the missing knife blade which would not assist them in their case against me.

Further, during that night, when the situation had calmed down, I rang for an ambulance. My ex-wife instructed
me to tell the 000 operator that there had been a murder so that the ambulance would come quickly. In the audio
she is clearly heard giving me that instruction standing right beside me. I tell the operator, I tried to call her.
The prosecution claims I am saying, I tried to kill her. The 000 operator clearly repeats back to me what I
said, You tried to call her? The line then suddenly goes dead. It went dead because Pamela Kepic has hit me
over the head with a hammer.

I have attached an email from my appeal lawyer Megan In De Braekt where she states she has listened to the
audio and it is clear what is said and that my ex-wife is right beside me. That audio was removed from my
prison property at Acacia Prison and is lost. Neither my original lawyer nor the prosecution have a copy. How
convenient. Here is an extract from my appeal lawyers email to my former defense counsel Colin Lovitt Q.C

(4) Further to (3), I dont know whether you had an opportunity to listen to the 000 telephone call
recording many times over (or if at all) prior to trial, but if you did, did you ever notice/hear Mr Ammoun
during that call, ask someone (Mrs Tanya Ammoun) what his Mother in laws name was?

The reason I ask this is because I have listened to the 000 recording many times, and I can clearly hear
Mr Ammoun ask someone nearby to him (which presumably could only be Mrs Tanya Ammoun): What
is your mothers name? To which a female voice replies: Pamela, Pamela Kepic.

This would seem to seriously undermine Mrs Ammouns testimony at trial.

(4.1) Were you aware prior to or during Mr Ammouns trial, of the abovementioned on the 000 call
recording?
(4.2) If not, but if you had known, might you have done anything different in the way the defence was
conducted?
(4.3) If so, what might you had done differently?

(5) You may recall having strongly objected to the trial Judges (extraordinary) recital of the 000
telephone recording transcript, (which was not in evidence) to the Jury, during the summing up. The
000 transcript had Mr Ammoun as saying I tried to kill my wife & I tried to kill my wife and
mother in law.

You may recall that during the course of this objection, you remarked to the trial Judge that Mr Levy had
always advised you that it was Mr Ammouns position that he never used the word kill but rather he
had said call.

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However you also said to the trial Judge (T:513) that Mr Ammouns version (ie: call rather than kill)
had never made sense to you, & consequently you had not raised it during the trial.

I agree with you entirely. When Mr Ammoun first provided me with this version, I also thought it did not
make sense. However, after listening to the 000 telephone recording many times over, I now believe
Mr Ammoun was correct, and that he did in fact say call rather than kill.

The reason for this is that, it is clear, (after listening to the recording even only a few times), that the
000 operator repeats back to Mr Ammoun: Yeh, so you tried to call your wife. Therefore the 000
operator understood Mr Ammoun to say call rather than kill. Presumably, this perhaps may not have
been known to you prior to or during Mr Ammouns trial.
(5.1) If that was the case, could you please advise, that had you known the 000 call operator said
call rather than kill when he repeated Mr Ammouns statement back to him, would this have changed
the way in which you conducted the defence?
(5.2) If so, how may it have changed?

(6) Did you ever take any instructions from Mr Ammoun personally/directly?
(6.1) If so, what instructions did you take personally/directly from Mr Ammoun, and when did you take
them?

Also, both the closing address of my lawyer and the prosecution David Dempster were lost. No record
remains.

In the end I was found not guilty with regards going armed to the house ie: hammer and knife. That should
have been the end of intent with regards the charge.

Further to the ridiculous conflicting and coached witness statements was the grossly biased summing up of
Justice Blaxell. My lawyer Colin Lovitt took Justice Blaxell to task on this as it was so bad

No, but there is certainly conflicting evidence. The toilet scenario for example: shes in the toilet;
shes stabbed; shes hit with a hammer over and over again and theres not a speck of blood on her.
Thats a pretty big point your Honor, and your Honor didnt give it an iota of attention in your Honors
summary of both the evidence and you didnt purport to summarize the defense case except to tell
the jury that they heard the final address recently.

This needs to be repeated you didnt purport to summarize the defense case except to tell the jury that they
heard the final address recently. No one would believe that a Justice in the Supreme Court of Western
Australia would sum up a defense case by stating you heard the final address recently.

The entire trial is FILLED with absurdities such as the above. People simply cannot believe it is so bad. But this
is WA isnt it? Look at the Mallard case to this day, those exposed as corrupt suffer no consequences. Look at
the police handling of evidence in that case. My case is worse. Far worse. I note your newspaper reported on
Saturday the 5
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of April that the police evidence storage procedure was a farce. Its worse than that its
deliberate corruption.

Your reporting on my case was grossly in error. I am looking for a correction. Will you grant me that
correction?

When I look at the entire event as a whole, I wonder sometimes if there is not a great deal of co-operation
between the media, police and prosecution to label a defendant and assist in his conviction. Was your
newspapers reporting THAT bad because your reporters and editors are incompetent or were your staff assisting
the prosecution case? Its a serious question. I am living with some of Perths most high profile cases and it
seems to me there is a consistent pattern of not just sloppy reporting but a clear pattern of deliberate
misinformation.

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Here is further reporting, this time from Womans Day magazine which emphasizes the point

WA mum: I escaped my killer husband
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
By Megan Norris



Ali Ammoun had been charming when they first met, and Tanya could not have foreseen he would
savagely attack both her and her mother.

Mother-of-eight Tanya Ammoun runs her fingers along the scars crisscrossing her scalp to the
disfiguring "mark of Zorro" along her face harrowing reminders of the night she was left for dead,
choking on her own blood.

But while time has healed the physical wounds the Fremantle teacher's aide suffered during a vicious
stabbing frenzy, the chilling flashbacks remain.

"Sometimes I'm strapping the baby into the car seat, or supermarket shopping, when I'm back there and
it's happening all over again," says Tanya, 38.

"It's like some awful, surreal three-dimensional horror movie, where I hear the knife squelching into my
flesh, and can smell and taste the blood again as I waited to die," she says.

"Then I look at my children and remind myself how lucky I am to be here, and how my love for them
kept me alive that night as I lay drowning in my own blood on my neighbour's front porch."

Tanya fled her abusive 13-year marriage to wealthy businessman Ali Ammoun in 2006, never dreaming
his hatred would climax in such a hideous way.

Now, as Ammoun, 49, begins a 16-year jail sentence for his shocking crime, Tanya talks for the first
time of the terrifying hours of violence.

I have now served 7 years of a 16 year sentence. My trial was a farce. It was called a circus by my defense
lawyer Colin Lovitt Q.C. I am aiming for the High Court and would appreciate a correction of your reporting.

I have included pages from my transcript 3 pages. Plus 4 pages of an email of my appeal lawyer to Colin
Lovitt Q.C.

My website containing all my legal paper work is at www.aliammoun.com -

Sincerely,



Ali Rachid Ammon