Alexander McLeod-Lindsay (24 December 1934 – 17 September 2009) was a Scots-born[definition needed] Australian who is noted for having served nine years in jail for attempting to murder his wife, but who was later exonerated.
The couple bought a house in the southern Sydney suburb of Sylvania, New South Wales.
On 14 September 1964, he arrived home from his day job, mowed the lawn and at 7.30pm went to work at the Sylvania Hotel.
Pamela McLeod-Lindsay also had abdominal injuries, a broken collar-bone and nose, various lacerations and brain tissue was exposed by the severe skull fracture.
[citation needed] Police developed the theory that he had slipped away from the hotel, attacked his family and returned to work, unnoticed.
A fortnight after the attack McLeod-Lindsay was charged with the attempted murder of his wife and son.
The Crown case was that Pamela McLeod-Lindsay was lying to protect the family's income.
Crown witnesses gave inconclusive evidence in relation to a man and a car seen in the area.
A witness for the defence gave evidence that he was talking to the accused man at the hotel at the time of the assault.
The inquiry of Mister Justice Lee in 1969 found that, although there was no established motive for the attack, that did not take away a single incriminating bloodstain.