Neighbour tells NSW court of conversations with murder accused Justin Stein shortly before schoolgirl disappeared
A man accused of murdering his partner’s daughter told a neighbour he was digging for “treasure” shortly before she went missing, a jury has heardpleaded not guilty to the murder of nine-year-old Charlise MuttenThe girl was reported missing from the Mount Wilson property in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney where she was staying with Stein and her mother, Kallista Mutten.
He recalled conversation about custody of the girl, who had been living on the Gold Coast before visiting her mother. Stein claims he was in a shed on the property when he heard a gunshot, emerging to see the nine-year-old’s mother Kallista Mutten shoot her daughter a second time.Senior Constable Graeme Gray allegedly found those guns buried off a fire trail near the property in February, after Charlise had been found dead.
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