Former barrister not guilty but not lucky either DON'T call Lloyd Rayney "lucky" just because he's not in jail. If the disgraced barrister were lucky, he wouldn't have been forced through a punishingly public investigation and murder trial ruining his once flourishing law practice, his reputation and what was left of his savings. Five years after a killer buried his wife's body - head first and legs folded - in a hole dug in a Perth park, Rayney was finally found not guilty of her murder three months ago. But, given the presumption he was innocent to begin with, being acquitted was hardly lucky.