Adelaide Advertiser: McGees try to stop court case - 3 October, 2006

A prominent Adelaide lawyer and his brother will seek a stay on charges of perverting the course of justice in the investigation relating to a hit-and-run crash that killed a cyclist. Lawyer Eugene McGee and his brother Craig appeared in the South Australian District Court for the first time today after being ordered in August to stand trial.

It is alleged the brothers obstructed a police investigation into Eugene McGee’s involvement in the crash in 2003 which killed cyclist Ian Humphrey. A former police prosecutor, Eugene McGee was previously found guilty of driving without due care on the night he hit and killed Mr Humphrey, before fleeing the scene.

He was fined $3,100 and disqualified from driving for 12 months. The lawyer and his brother were charged with perverting the course of justice following a subsequent royal commission into the police investigation of the crash.

In court today the pair did not enter pleas and Judge Peter Herriman was told that an application had been filed seeking a stay on the proceedings. Judge Herriman adjourned their case to November 9 for a directions hearing. The brothers remain on bail.