Eastman to face retrial over 1989 murder

David Harold Eastman will face a retrial over the 1989 murder of federal police commissioner Colin Winchester after the High Court dismissed his appeal.

Mr Eastman, 71, spent nearly 20 years behind bars before his original conviction was quashed in 2014.

Since then he's been fighting a retrial, but the High Court on Thursday dismissed his application for leave to put his arguments for a stay on the trial to the nation's top judges.