Cold case murder: Jury hears DNA, blood splatter evidence
A number of clothing items seized by police were tested for DNA.
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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...
A Mackay court has heard there were rumours that Dorothy Britton was also having an affair.
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.