NSW: Brown jury retires to consider verdict

AAP General News (Australia)
08-04-2006
NSW: Brown jury retires to consider verdict

SYDNEY, Aug 4 AAP - The jury hearing evidence in the murder trial of Sydney security
guard Karen Brown has retired to consider its verdict.

The jury retired at about 12.30pm (AEST) today, two weeks after Brown's trial began
in the NSW Supreme Court.

Brown, 42, is accused of shooting dead William Aquilina after he beat her with a knuckle-duster
and robbed her outside the Moorebank Hotel, in southwest Sydney, in July 2004.

Brown has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Mr Aquilina and not guilty to an alternative
charge of manslaughter.

Mr Aquilina, 26, was shot dead in a stolen car outside the Moorebank Hotel on the morning
of July 26, 2004.

Seconds earlier, he had beaten Brown with a knuckle-duster and dragged her along the
ground, before stealing a backpack containing about $43,000 in takings from the hotel
and a nearby restaurant.

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