Getting Away with Murder by Phil Cleary - 2005: The true story of Julie Ramage's Death

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'Don't forget to put a red rose on Mum's coffin'

James Ramage told his son this from gaol. Just ten days earlier he'd bashed and strangled his wife to death in their middle-class home. After dumping Julie's body in the boot of his Jaguar and making a fake call to her mobile, Ramage buried his childhood sweetheart in a shallow bush grave. On the way home he stopped at a factory to choose a marble benchtop for his new kitchen. Later he had dinner with his son. When things began to spiral that evening, he met with a lawyer friend before handing himself in to police.

When the case went to trial it was Julie Ramage who was blamed for her own death. In the eyes of the defence she'd ruined the seemingly perfect life provided by her businessman husband and had provoked him to kill her - by saying she was leaving.

Phil Cleary has campaigned against the defence of provocation ever since his sister was murdered in 1987. With characteristic passion he recreates this chilling murder and the trial that devastated Julie's family and friends and outraged the community. This is the truth about what happened when an ordinary woman sought a happier life.