Holland's sister and her boyfriend (a British-born sheet-metal worker named Graham Stuart Stafford (born May 1963), who had emigrated to the Sunshine Coast with his family in 1969) were also living in the same house since June 1991.
[1][2] Three days after last being seen, at 1:42 pm, her partially clothed and shoeless body was found in bushland on Redbank Plains Road by two policemen searching the area on trail bikes.
[12] Paul Wilson, chair of the Department of Criminology at Bond University, headed a pro bono team of lawyers making appeals on Stafford's behalf.
[5][14][15] The DNA expert who had testified at the trial, Angela van Daal, also provided a statement that she believed the blood evidence inadequate for a conviction.
[4][12] In separate decisions, justices Patrick Keane, Catherine Holmes and Hugh Fraser held that Stafford had been denied a fair trial.
[19][20] A subsequent two-year-long police review of the case was completed in November 2012, but has not been made public,[21] although Channel 7's Murder Uncovered did unofficially obtain a copy, parts of which were briefly shown to Stafford and his lawyers in March 2017.