The judge said Justin Stein “did not shed a tear” and used tissues as a prop during his trial for the callous murder of his partner’s nine-year-old daughter.
Justin Stein has been jailed for life without parole for the murder of his partner’s nine-year-old daughter Charlise Mutten in the Blue Mountains, which a judge labelled a “shockingly callous crime of very great heinousness”.of killing the schoolgirl, whose body was found in a barrel next to the Colo River in January 2022 with gunshot wounds to her face and back.
Charlise, who lived with her grandparents in Tweed Heads, had been visiting her mother Kallista Mutten and her fiance, Stein, for the school holidays. Prosecutors said Stein shot Charlise at his family’s Mount Wilson estate, Wildenstein, while her mother was staying 1½ hours away at his caravan in Lower Portland.“This was a shockingly callous crime of very great heinousness. It was gravely reprehensible and extremely wicked,” the judge said.
She said Stein gave a “wholly false account” and “gave every appearance of crying” in his evidence at trial, but from her view he “did not shed a tear” and was using tissues as a prop.The judge said Stein told elaborate and extravagant lies to conceal his crime including pretending to search for Charlise, claiming he left her at the home with an auctioneer, or that his former criminal associates may have kidnapped her.
In an emotional victim impact statement, Mutten said the false accusations had been “horrific”. She said, and will miss Charlise’s unconditional love.
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