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MORE than 6000 people enjoyed the free entertainment at the Wangaratta Showgrounds to welcome in the New Year on Saturday evening. Among those staying around the fireworks at 9pm were (from left) Charlie and Laura Bell, Dusty Pantling and Ash Hanby. See full story, more photos page 4. PHOTO: Coby Canning
Beef bonanza: $90M traded in record year
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MURDER CHARGE Three charged with murder of Wangaratta teenager, with investigations ongoing
POLICE have estimated it could be up to 16 weeks before an autopsy is obtained following the alleged murder of a 19-year-old Wangaratta man on Christmas Eve, whose body was found in a burning car near Shepparton. Emergency services were called to the car fire
on Loch Garry Road at Bunbartha around 10am, extinguishing the blaze before locating the body of Charlie Gander inside the vehicle. Danny Clarke, 38, and Kylie Stott, 37, both from Shepparton, and Mooroopna man Dimitri D’Elio, 24, were formally charged
with the teenager’s murder on December 30, and were remanded in custody at Shepparton Magistrates’ Court yesterday. At a filing hearing yesterday, Homicide Squad Detective Senior Constable Alex Nucci said the investigation remained ongoing, with officers expected to
sift through 100s of hours of CCTV footage in the coming weeks, and refused to rule out the involvement of other persons of interest. Applications for further CCTV footage had also been made, according to DSC Nucci. He said in record of interviews completed on De-
cember 30, Stott had made comment which was not consistent with the investigation, and noted two of the co-accused had denied the offending and one had refused to comment. Defence counsel Rebecca Park called for police to expedite the provision of CCTV footage, which
she said could assist the formulation of a defence or potential bail application for Stott. However, Magistrate David Faram noted it would be impossible for the case to proceed without a completed pathology report on the body. ■ Continued page 3
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