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the judge awarded additional sums for economic losses and interest, bringing the total award to $ 2,623,416 – "almost four times as large as the previous biggest defamation award in W.A." The judgment was highly critical of the police, finding that senior officers involved in the investigation into Ms Rayney's murder "had formed a prejudicial view" of Mr Rayney and had "taken the approach of assessing actions and words against an assumption of guilt".
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Rayney's wife, Corryn, was murdered in August 2007. In the following month, Rayney was publicly named by police as "the prime and only suspect", though he was not charged with the murder until
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