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The 54 year old had been charged with murdering his mother at Jubilee Pocket in 1996.

The jury deliberated for less than three hours, returning a verdict after eight days of evidence in Mackay Supreme Court.

Whitsunday cold case murder: Defence barrister for a man charged with shooting his mother in the head makes closing argument.

A number of clothing items seized by police were tested for DNA.

Premium Content Subscriber only UPDATE: A Crown Prosecutor has told a court the alleged murder of Whitsunday woman Dorothy Britton was “clearly a very personal killing” and could only have been committed by her eldest son. Christopher Mark Britton has pleaded not guilty to the shooting murder of his mother on the evening of March 6, 1996. Dorothy was found on her bed inside her Jubilee Pocket home with a gunshot wound to her head, wearing her nightie and still clutching a piece of lin...

A Mackay court has heard there were rumours that Dorothy Britton was also having an affair.

A witness claims the son of a man accused of shooting his mother in the head confessed to killing his mother with a shotgun.

Premium Content Subscriber only UPDATE: A woman told a court she had a vision she was Dorothy Britton and experienced being shot in the head during a visit to the Jubilee Pocket home sometime after the killing in 1996. Debra Allan told Mackay Supreme Court she had been feeling ill while at the Timberland Road home and went to lie down in the room that had been occupied by Dorothy when she was alive. Dorothy was shot in the head on or about March 6, 1996. Her eldest son Christopher Mark Britton ...

A Mackay jury heard a man accused of murdering his mother with a shotgun had a running joke with a former flame about his mum’s violent death.

The son of a woman shot to death in the Whitsundays claims his father was the mastermind behind the murder and may have roped in a third party.