DENIS Tanner may have yet another day in court if the Supreme Court grants an application by retired police detective, Ron Irwin, to overturn the Tanner and Bailey inquests.

As reported in the Herald Sun (September 25, New push to clear Tanner), Mr Irwin has presented the Supreme Court with a 14-volume dossier of what he claims is fresh evidence that warrants new inquests.

It was reported that lawyers representing the coroner’s office and police chief commissioner, Christine Nixon, successfully had the new hearing adjourned to October 27.

For more than 10 years Denis Tanner has proclaimed his innocence in both cases.

In 2003 the state coroner’s conclusion was that he had in fact killed Jennifer Tanner and possibly Adele Bailey.

Jennifer Tanner was shot twice in the head at her home in Bonnie Doon in November, 1984.

Despite police pushing for a coroner’s decision as suicide, the first inquest into her death in 1985 returned an open finding.

Following the discovery of Ms Bailey’s skeletal remains in a mineshaft near the Tanner property in 1995, 14 years after her disappearance, the Tanner case was reopened.

After the reopening of the case in 1995, 11 years after Jennifer Tanner’s death, and the coroner stating he believed Denis Tanner was guilty, Mr Irwin has spent years and countless dollars investigating the Tanner case and still believes Denis Tanner did not do it.

In a report in the Age Newspaper in February 2003, Mr Irwin stated "I’m putting my hand up for probably Australia’s most unpopular man but I know he didn’t do it."

Now another five and a half years after that, Mr Irwin is challenging the coroner’s claims yet again believing the new evidence he has produced will clear Denis Tanner’s name for good.

The Herald Sun report stated Mr Irwin was taking the Supreme Court action because he had no faith in the most recent police investigation into the deaths, which found Tanner was still a suspect in both cases.