By Laura Withers For Daily Mail Australia and Australian Associated Press
Published: 07:24 GMT, 21 March 2019 | Updated: 07:27 GMT, 21 March 2019
Hobart woman Susan Neill-Fraser has been granted the right to launch a fresh appeal against her murder conviction.
Neill-Fraser, 65, is serving 23 years' jail after being convicted in 2010 of killing partner Bob Chappell on the couple's Four Winds yacht moored at Sandy Bay on Australia Day 2009.
In Hobart Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon, Justice Michael Brett deemed Neill-Fraser had provided evidence that met the criteria of 'fresh and compelling', enough for him to grant leave for an appeal.
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Sue Neill-Fraser (pictured) has spent nine years behind bars for the murder of her partner on their yacht in Tasmania on Australia Day in 2009
That evidence concerned the whereabouts and DNA of then-homeless teenager Meaghan Vass.
Ms Vass's DNA was found aboard the yacht, but she told the original trial she was not on the boat.
Ms Vass signed a document in April
