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Boyfriend of Carly McBride on trial for the young mother’s murder
It was one of the highest-profile missing persons cases in New South Wales over the past decade.
Key points:
- Sayle Kenneth Newson is on trial for the murder of mother-of-two Carly McBride
- Ms McBride’s body was found in bushland in 2016, two years after she disappeared in Muswellbrook
- A jury is told there is “no smoking gun” and the case against Mr Newson is circumstantial
Carly McBride, a 31-year-old mother of two, disappeared on September 30, 2014, in the Upper Hunter town of Muswellbrook.
She became the face of Missing Persons Week until her body was eventually found by two bushwalkers near Scone in 2016.
Sayle Kenneth Newson, 43, who was Ms McBride’s boyfriend at the time of her disappearance, is on trial for her murder in the Supreme…
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