A MAN who admitted killing another man at Swan Hill in September last year will
defend a charge of murder, a committal hearing in the Mildura Magistrates’ Court
was told yesterday.
Thirty-eight-year-old Bendigo man Darren Williams
formally entered a plea of not guilty to one count of murder and was ordered to
re-appear for a directions hearing in the Supreme Court in Melbourne next
month.
Williams also yesterday pleaded guilty to the theft of a car which was
later located at Dareton.
The dead man, believed to have been in his 60s, was
found at a property in Harrison Crescent.
The committal hearing was this week
told that considerable force was used to inflict a “large number” of injuries on
the deceased man including a depressed fracture of the skull.
For more on this story, see Wednesday’s edition of The Guardian (22/08/12).
