First steps of freedom after three years on remand
The 54 year old had been charged with murdering his mother at Jubilee Pocket in 1996.
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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 âclearly a very personal killingâ 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. âWe know the murder weapon was a shotgun,â Crown Prosecutor Sam...