A father and teenage son allegedly carried out a 'cold-blooded execution' at the rear of their property after coming across an intruder in their shed, a South Australian court hears.
abc.net.au/news/father-and-son-face-court-over-shooting-murder/102206962A father and son allegedly carried out a "cold-blooded execution" at the rear of their property after coming across an intruder in their shed, a court has heard.A father and his son have been charged with murderKeith Russell Yandle, 46, and his son Marco Anthony Yandle are accused of murdering missing man Steven Murphy, whose remains were found under a shed last week in an underground bunker.
"This is a 19-year-old man who accompanied his father, with a baseball bat to confront an intruder and it's only then his father — and his father alone who, on the prosecution case, is responsible physically for the death of the deceased," he said.argued against the application, saying there was concern the son could interfere with witnesses."There is also evidence that, post-offence… this accused destroyed evidence from his mobile phone.
The prosecutor said the CCTV vision allegedly shows the father discharging an unlicensed firearm several times, while the younger man illuminated the victim holding a torch. "There are then at least three shots – probably four that are fired about 15 minutes later," Ms Boord said.
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