The Fall from Hyde Park: The Lisa Harnum Story

Lisa Harnum was a Canadian woman living in Sydney whose life was dominated by her obsessively controlling fiancé, Simon Gittany, who used spyware, financial control, and social isolation to monitor her every move. In July 2011, after Lisa attempted to flee the apartment with her belongings, Gittany was captured on his own security camera forcibly dragging her back inside, where she was thrown from their 15th-floor balcony to her death just 69 seconds later,. Although Gittany maintained that Lisa committed suicide, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to 26 years in prison after a judge relied on witness testimony and the absence of Lisa’s fingerprints on the balcony railing to reject his story.