Australia, April 8 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on March 7:
1. HIS HONOUR: The offender, Connor Fuller, is to be sentenced for two offences. The more serious is the offence of murder, namely, that on 28 July 2021 at South West Rocks, he murdered Mark Tozer, contrary to s 18(1)(a) of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW). He was convicted of that offence at a trial by a judge alone before me, on 12 November 2024: R v Fuller (No 4) [2024] NSWSC 1420 (the verdict judgment). At his arraignment on 23 September 2024, the offender entered a plea of guilty to an alternative charge of the manslaughter of Mark Tozer, which was consistent with his defence to the murder charge of excessive self-defence, as p...