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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 linen, about dusk on March 7. “We know the murder weapon was a shotgun,” Crown Prosecutor Sam...

The husband of a woman shot to death was having an affair with a long-standing family friend at the time of her death.

One woman is convinced she saw Dorothy Britton’s killer as witnesses testify they heard gunshots the day she was found shot to death in her bed.

Premium Content Subscriber only UPDATE: The husband of a woman who was shot to death in 1996 has been questioned in court about whether he ordered one of his sons to kill his wife. Ian Britton has denied having anything to do with her death and said a possible chat with a workmate about "knocking" her off was "only talk". A court heard then-Blackwater resident Ian was having an affair with a family friend and had been on the verge of confessing his infidelity when his wife Dorothy was killed on about March 6. A Mackay Supreme Court jury heard she was shot in the head in her bed - her body ...

Premium Content Subscriber only A man accused of shooting his mother in the head 25 years ago allegedly said "kill the b*tch" on multiple occasions, a court heard. Christopher Britton has pleaded not guilty to murdering Dorothy Britton in 1996. She was found shot to death in her bed inside her Jubilee Pocket home on March 7. It is alleged Christopher killed her the night before. Steven Britton, who is one of Christopher's brothers, said the relationship between his brother and mother "wasn't very amicable". Steven claimed in Mackay Supreme Court Christopher would say "kill the b*tch" abo...