Australia, June 30 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 29:
1. HIS HONOUR: David Mapp stood trial on 14 October 2024 before me sitting with a jury charged that on 28 July 2022, at Tumbi Umbi in the State of New South Wales, he did murder Colleen Wilson. On 24 October 2024, the jury returned a verdict of guilty on that charge. Mr Mapp is now to be sentenced for that offence.
2. The offence of murder carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment with a standard non-parole period of 20 years. The Crown does not submit that a life sentence is warranted in the circumstances of this case.
Facts consistent with jury verdict
3. With some relatively minor exceptions to which I will shortly ...