Phuong Ngo was accused of ordering the killing Australian MP John Newman in September 1994. He was arrested on 13 March, 1998. Now, over five years later he is appealing his conviction to the High Court of Australia. It has never been part of the Crown case that Phuong Ngo fired the two shots that killed Newman. Instead he was supposed to have ordered another man to do so. Yet no one has been found guilty of being the shooter. The shooter remains at large and it has to be said that he has escaped justice. Ngo's co-accused have all been either found not guilty by jury verdict or by police and the State of NSW who offered indemnities to anyone who would name Ngo as being the "mastermind" behind the murder. No motive has ever been established for Ngo to murder Newman and he had no prior convictions. Another man, who confessed to the murder, has escaped proper investigation by the police and lied in court to protect himself.