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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...

Premium Content Subscriber only A woman has relived the gruesome moment she found her mother-in-law shot to death in her Jubilee Pocket home during a murder trial against her brother in law. “I saw mum on the bed, the back of her head was split open,” Maxine Britton told Mackay Supreme court on Monday afternoon. “There was a spot of blood on her left cheek.” She was the first person to find Dorothy Britton in 1997 after she had been asked by her mother-in-law’s husband Ian Britton to check on her when she failed to answer the phone on March 7.