Australia, March 27 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement:
On 21 November 2019, Andrew Whyte Murray, a 56-year-old man was sleeping rough in Tweed Heads. Kevin James Pettiford, having walked past Mr Murray's unoccupied camp earlier, returned to the location and killed him. He did so by taking a large rock from a nearby seawall which he used to strike Mr Murray's head. On failing to immediately kill Mr Murray, the offender took another large rock from the seawall and again struck Mr Murray to the head. He repeated this process with a third rock, desisting only as a result of the presence of other people nearby. This was a senseless, brutal murder.
The offender was arrested for the murder of Mr...