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TEGAN LEE LANE MOVIE
Get the latest news from in your inbox.Radio 2 has launched a listener vote to discover the Ultimate Animated Movie Song from the past 50 years. The jury did not believe there was a reasonable possibility that Tegan was now a living breathing 14-year-old schoolgirl.īut only her mother knows what really happened to the baby, a mystery only she can solve.

Was he Duncan Gillies or Andrew Morris/Norris or another man?īy its verdict, the jury rejected the possibility Tegan was handed over to another person or died accidentally. Just as Lane's parents and brother missed out on having any relationship with her three children, the men and their families were not given the chance to know or rear their offspring.Īs Tegan did not undergo a blood test before she left hospital, her paternity is unknown. Lane told the adoption agencies numerous lies about her situation and the two infants' fathers, but the defence said this was to protect her privacy.Ĭiting as an example the issue of contraception, Mr Chappell said she may have wanted to keep private "things she was not really proud of".īut her secrecy has had far-ranging effects, including the shock caused to the men who fathered her first and third babies.Īs a result of the police investigation, the men only discovered they were the fathers, through DNA tests, about a decade after the adoptions. How did she manage to attend a wedding and appear "normal" just hours after murdering Tegan?

How did she manage to hide not just her physical changes, but her emotions in relinquishing her babies? She also was "extremely fearful that if her family found out about these pregnancies that they would reject her and abandon her".ĭespite having to dash to hospitals to give birth and to go through the complicated adoption processes for her first and third babies, no-one around Lane knew anything.

He maintained Lane had not wanted to be burdened with Tegan, or her other two babies, as she wanted to pursue her sporting, sex and social life. He also cited extensive but fruitless nationwide police searches for a man fitting Lane's description and for Tegan. Mr Tedeschi asked why the man would automatically accept he was the father and why would his partner automatically accept another woman's baby. She first named him as Andrew Morris, then Andrew Norris, and said he was accompanied by his partner "Mel" and his mother when he took custody of Tegan.īut the crown labelled her account as "inherently unbelievable" and absurd, contending this man was a fictitious person. She told police she handed Tegan over to the infant's father, a man with whom she had a brief and secret affair. Lane did not give evidence at her trial, which began in August, and which sometimes attracted large crowds. Her barrister, Keith Chapple SC, said the crown had not even proved Tegan was dead, let alone that her mother caused her death with the intention to kill her. The crown claimed she had a four-hour "window of opportunity" from when she left the hospital to when she arrived at her mother's house to get ready for a wedding.īut prosecutor Mark Tedeschi QC couldn't say how she killed the child or what she did with the body.

Ms Lane, now 35, denied murdering two-day old Tegan, her second baby, on Septemafter they left Sydney's Auburn hospital. The couple had a regular sex life and Lane's expanding body was clad in a swimming costume at her regular pool sessions. The water polo champion managed to do just that, hiding her pregnancies and births from her friends, family and even her long-term lover, footballer Duncan Gillies. The facts of the case, described by a coroner as bizarre and surreal, would not be out of place in a pulp novel.īut even a hack writer would have been pushing the bounds of credibility with a plot where a young, very social athlete gives birth secretly to three babies, adopting out two.
