Elizabeth Anne Turner Wins Retrial After Being Jailed for Attempting to Pervert Justice and Perjury
Elizabeth Anne Turner, a 67-year-old mother jailed for attempting to pervert justice and perjury, successfully had her conviction overturned and will have a retrial. Turner allegedly helped her son buy a yacht to escape the country before his drug smuggling trial in 2015. Bosscher Lawyers is representing Turner in this case. Turner was found guilty of attempting to pervert the course of justice and three counts of perjury in February. She was initially sentenced to four years of jail time with no chance of parole for two years. The Court of Appeal determined there was a miscarriage of justice due to evidence excluded from her trial. Turner allegedly offered $520,000 surety to help her son, Markis Scott Turner, get bail and afterwards helped him escape by buying him a yacht he sailed to the Philippines. Markis had been arrested in 2011 for allegations of heading a major cocaine importation syndicate. She allegedly lied so her son could remain in hiding by telling the authorities sh...