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AAP reports that expert forensic evidence helps prove convicted killer Susan Neill-Fraser suffered a significant miscarriage of justice" that warrants a retrial, her legal team argues.

The Hobart woman is serving 23 years' jail for killing partner Bob Chappell, who disappeared off the couple's yacht moored on the River Derwent on Australia Day 2009.

There is a significant possibility that the jury would have delivered a different verdict if the evidence of Jones had been before it.