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Murder retrial ordered over killing of man in CBD A man accused of murdering his housemate in 2014 has been granted a retrial in a bombshell appeal.
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Subscriber only A Townsville man accused of murdering his housemate in 2014 has been granted a retrial in a bombshell appeal. Mark Anthony Smith had his murder conviction set aside on Wednesday after a successful appeal in the Supreme Court of Queensland. Smith was found guilty in 2019 of strangling his roommate, Bradley Lester, to death over a 20-minute period, and leaving his body in long grass at a Stuart St cutting in April, 2014.
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Subscriber only A Townsville man has been found not guilty of murdering an elderly woman in the front yard of her home in September 2018, instead finding him guilty of manslaughter. A 12-person jury retired on Wednesday to deliberate the evidence heard and delivered their unanimous verdict on Friday afternoon. A five day trial in the Townsville Supreme Court heard Mark Daniel Ferguson, 23, left Pamela Frances Corless to die 3m from the front door of her Cranbrook home after he hit her on the back of her head with a 1.5m piece of timber. Mark Ferguson. Source: Facebook. On Monday, Ferguson pleaded not guilty to murdering the 73-year-old and defended the charge, and instead pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
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Subscriber only A Queensland killer jailed for life for the murder of a man found decomposing in remote bushland has claimed the jury s verdict was unreasonable . Brent Malcolm Huxley was sentenced in 2019 to life imprisonment for murdering north Queensland man Michael McCabe in August 2015. Mr McCabe, 25, was assaulted by a group at a Townsville unit before being loaded into the boot of a car and driven to the Crystal Creek region, about 80km north. Huxley (pictured) was sentenced in 2019 to life imprisonment for the 2015 killing of Michael McCabe but has since appealed the conviction. His partially skeletonised and mummified body was found in remote bushland on September 17, 2015.