NT: Murder defendant disputes age
An Aborigine from remote Elcho Island will undergo x-ray analysis to help determinewhether he will face a murder charge as an adult or juvenile.
DANIEL YUNUPINGU would receive a mandatory life sentence if convicted in the NorthernTerritory Supreme Court of murder as an adult.
But a life sentence would be the maximum penalty he would face if convicted as a juvenile.
He is charged with stabbing an 18-year-old man to death on his home island off ArnhemLand during a petrol-sniffing session on June 6 last year.
Defence counsel JOHN LAWRENCE has …
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