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Woman cleared of helping husband keep a slave
Judge Michael Cahill found no case for Angie Liaw to answer, while her husband still faces slave possession and assault charges.
- On Thursday, Judge Michael Cahill acquitted Angie Liaw of assisting her husband in slave possession, ruling there was no case for her to answer in the Victorian County Court.
- Prosecutors alleged that Liaw's husband, Chee Kit 'Max' Chong, kept a 61-year-old Malaysian woman as a slave in their Melbourne home between January and October 2022.
- Defense lawyer Diana Price suggested the victim may have 'embellished her account,' while jurors reviewed a recorded police interview with the victim before her death in 2024.
- Chong remains on trial for intentionally possessing a slave and three counts of assault; Judge Cahill instructed jurors not to draw adverse inferences from Liaw's acquittal.
- Closing addresses from Prosecutor Shaun Ginsbourg and Price are expected later Thursday, after which the jury will deliberate on the remaining verdicts for Chong.
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