Oh Deery

Is the Herald Sun's Shannon Deery a work experience kid with no editorial supervision or a non-native English speaker on drugs (with no editorial supervision)?

FRIENDS of a man who strangled his wife before burying her in their backyard unknowingly helped him build a new deck to cover the body, a court has heard.

'Unknowingly helped him build a new deck'?

In the days following his wife disappeared....

'In the days following his wife disappeared's disappearance'.

Instead she had lay buried in the backyard...

'Instead she had lay lain buried in the backyard' or 'Instead she had lay buried in the backyard'.

...covered her body with concrete and then built a new decking on top of the site.

'...covered her body with concrete and then built a new decking on top of the site'.

He said friends of Ahmadi unknowingly helped him carry materials to the area.

Unknowingly helped him carry materials?

Do newspapers have sub-editors anymore?

-- Nick