Brian Barnes pleads not guilty to murder of Quambatook woman Merril Kelly

The man accused of the murder of a 70-year-old woman in the small Victorian town of Quambatook, north-west of Bendigo, has pleaded not guilty.

Firefighters found the body of Merril Kelly after a grassfire near the old Quambatook cemetery in January.

Ms Kelly was a community leader, volunteer and…