Jury considers Farquharson verdict

A jury has retired to consider its verdict in the trial of a Victorian father
accused of murdering his three sons by driving them into a dam.
Robert Farquharson is charged with murdering Jai, 10, Tyler, 7 and Bailey, 2, on
Father's Day 2005.
Farquharson, 41, has pleaded not guilty, telling jurors that he had a coughing fit,
blacked out and woke up in the dam near Winchelsea in Victoria's southwest.
After an 11-week Victorian Supreme Court re-trial, jurors retired to consider their
verdict at about 3.10pm (AEST) on Monday.
They deliberated for about two hours before concluding for the day.
They will resume deliberations on Tuesday morning.
In his closing address earlier this month, prosecutor Andrew Tinney SC told the
court Farquharson's resentment and anger toward his ex-wife "drove him to commit an
almost unspeakable act of vengeance".
Mr Tinney urged jurors to find Farquharson guilty.
But Farquharson's barrister Peter Morrissey, SC, said it was an "absolute certainty"
his client blacked out while driving before ending up in the dam.
He said the fact that Farquharson invited a friend to join them on their Father's
Day trip to Geelong meant he could not have been planning to murder the boys.
Mr Morrissey said his client was a shy and uneducated man, who loved his kids.