Charlise Mutten murder accused claimed nine-year-old screamed out his name after mum shot her, court told

Corrections officer says Justin Stein told her I'm not going down for this', trial hears

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After being charged with murdering his fiancee's daughter, Justin Laurens Stein told a corrections officer it was actually the girl's mother who had killed the nine-year-old during an ice binge.

Stein, 33, is standing trial for murder in the New South Wales supreme court over the death of schoolgirl Charlise Mutten, whose body was found in a barrel by the Colo River in the Blue Mountains on 18 January 2022. He has pleaded not guilty.

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