Derek Bromley loses final bid for freedom after nearly 40 years in South Australian jail for murder

High court dismisses application to appeal conviction, despite minority of judges raising possibility he is innocent

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A convicted murderer jailed for life for a crime he says he did not commit has lost a bid to have his case re-heard in the nation's highest court, despite two of the judges saying there is a significant possibility" he is innocent.

Derek John Bromley and an accomplice, John Karpany, were jailed for life for the 1984 murder of Stephen Docoza after his body was found floating in Adelaide's River Torrens.

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