Australia, July 30 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on June 30:
1. On the evening of 9 December 2022, Mr Saliba ("the offender") stabbed Bailey Jones ("the deceased") in the upper chest at Bomaderry in the State of New South Wales. Mr Jones died shortly after. Mr Jones was 18 years old at the time. Mr Saliba was 20 years old. They were cousins.
2. On 18 December 2024, Mr Saliba was arraigned on an indictment containing a single count that he, on 9 December 2022, at Bomaderry in the State of New South Wales, did murder Bailey Jones. He entered a plea of not guilty to that charge. The matter was set down for trial on 11 March 2025.
4. The trial proceeded before me as a judge alone trial. ...