<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Paul Charlton is challenging his murder conviction, after a jury found him guilty of killing singer Joanne Howe in </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/melbourne" rel="" target="" title="Melbourne"><span>Melbourne</span></a><span>'s south-east.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Joanne had been trying to leave Charlton in 2007, when she was strangled in her Hughesdale home.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Charlton told police he found her after taking his dog for a walk.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/courtney-morleyclarke-murder-australias-youngest-murderer-to-walk-from-prison/90209618-125d-4adb-bf76-c887cfd71e2d" target="_blank"><strong><span>Australia's youngest murderer to walk from prison</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It was a decade and a half before Charlton was charged and in 2023, </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/paul-charlton-sentence-boyfriend-jailed-for-16-years-after-extreme-murder-of-tv-singer/07c00e3f-1fcf-4883-a8ae-388d8ccc9690" rel="" target="_blank" title="a jury convicted him of Joanne's murder"><span>a jury convicted him of Joanne's murder</span></a><span>.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Appealing the conviction Charlton's defence claimed the jury got it wrong because they weren't given proper directions during the trial.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>His lawyer telling the Court of Appeal there wasn't enough weight given to the defence claims that someone else could have attacked Joanne.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/paul-charlton-updates-man-convicted-of-singers-murder-claims-jury-got-it-wrong/1ca0e125-f1e4-40ba-a109-49c7c7a53e33" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/us-influencer-embroiled-in-wombat-scandal-leaves-australia/29fa7200-b995-40d1-acca-75f288ffc1c4" target="_blank"><strong><span>US influencer at centre of wombat scandal leaves Australia</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"This was plainly a murder – the question was who was criminally liable," Paul Smallwood said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Charlton has always maintained he didn't kill Joanne.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>During his murder trial his defence claimed Joanne could have been killed by her estranged brother, by another man known to her, or during a random break in.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"He gets to come out of prison, lucky him he gets a day trip," Joanne's sister Lisa Hennessy told 9News following the hearing.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I hope he gets another 10 years put on his sentence for putting our family through all this again."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Charlton is currently serving 24 years behind bars.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Three court of appeal justices will now rule on his conviction.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It is expected the decision will be handed down in the next few weeks.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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