I for one do not believe a word he says.
We keenly await his cross examination. A competent prosecutor ought to be able to demolish his entire testimony in front of the jury.
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I for one do not believe a word he says.
I just remembered that the DNA expert witness, Rebecca Williams has already been on the witness stand on the 14th May, on the day I attended the court. She stated that she has received 233 DNA samples, as well as other samples received from Police, and there was no comment about DNA in his bedroom. Or on articles of clothing.I think he probably said this because he is afraid they will find her DNA in his bed and he needs a good explanation.
Justin Stein cries while giving evidence, claiming mother of slain schoolgirl Charlise Mutten allegedly shot her
Stein's fanciful version of events, prior to smoking dope:
Mr Stein told the court he was working on his car in the shed when he heard a gunshot and “Charlise scream my name”.
“Then I went outside the shed...I got to the back of the shed, that’s when I heard Charlise scream ‘Mummy, no’,” Mr Stein told the jury as he tried to hold back tears.
“That’s when I heard...bang...a second gunshot...I saw Kallista and that’s when I saw Charlise on the ground.”
Under questioning from his defence barrister Carolyn Davenport SC, Mr Stein told the jury he saw Ms Mutten with a .22 calibre rifle in her hands.
He told the jury he asked Ms Mutten “what the have you done”.
“She looked at me and screamed at me: ‘You did this’,” Mr Stein said, dabbing his eyes with tissues.
The 33-year-old told the jury she continued to scream “you made me do this”, to which he responded: “what have I done? I have done everything for you”.
The jury heard Ms Mutten screamed at him to get a tarp but he refused.
“She lifted up the rifle like she was going to shoot...I put up both hands and said OK,” Mr Stein said.
Mr Stein said he was in the shed for about ten minutes and when he left he walked up to where they had been, to find Charlise and Ms Mutten “both gone”.
He walked back to the house and went to his bedroom where the jury was told he was “shaking” as he rolled a joint and broke down in tears for up to 15 minutes.
I posted these earlier articles to try and get info about the phone calls Stein made to Kalista, while he was driving around with the barrels.Police say that, between last Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, Mr Stein allegedly murdered his fiancee’s nine-year-old daughter, Charlise Mutten, who was visiting the lavish grounds of his family’s remote Blue Mountains estate, Wildenstein.![]()
With 100kg of sand and an empty barrel, Justin Stein allegedly attempted a cover-up
Before a widespread search for missing schoolgirl Charlise Mutten, Mr Stein allegedly dumped her body in the Colo River in the Blue Mountains.www.smh.com.au
To hide what he had allegedly done, Mr Stein towed a boat from the Mount Wilson property and tried to dump the schoolgirl’s body in the Hawkesbury River, but was unable to start the vessel.
So he drove his ute to the Colo River, where he allegedly planned to cast Charlise into the water inside a barrel filled with the sand he had bought from a Bunnings hardware store last Thursday afternoon. But it was all too heavy for him to shift, forcing him to allegedly leave it on the water’s edge.
Last Friday morning, Charlise’s mother Kallista Mutten and Mr Stein reported her daughter missing, saying they had last seen the girl on Thursday. It sparked a five-day search involving hundreds of police and thousands of volunteers in the bushland surrounding the property.
But police were running a separate homicide investigation, examining the possibility Charlise had met with foul play. Many of Mr Stein’s movements in the 24 hours before Charlise was reported missing had been captured on CCTV and through the GPS on his mobile phone.
Court documents say Mr Stein murdered Charlise between 7pm last Tuesday and 10am on Wednesday.
That behaviour also allegedly included a series of phone calls made to his fiancee while buying the sandbags and fuel for the boat at a local petrol station.
He said Mr Stein had told Ms Mutten and his mother he was out looking for Charlise on January 13, but allegedly left Mount Wilson with a barrel under a tarp in the back of the ute, as well as towing his boat.
He went to Bunnings and allegedly bought five 20kg bags of sand, most of which was later found in the barrel with the girl’s body, the jury was told.
With the girl’s body allegedly stuffed in a barrel at the back of the ute and hidden under a tarp, Mr McKay told the jury Mr Stein stopped in at a 7/11 where he bought a can of coke, snickers and a slushie before putting more than $120 of petrol in a boat he was towing.
The jury was told Mr Stein later Google searched “Colo River” and allegedly dumped the barrel down an embankment before returning to Mount Wilson at 4.22am on January 15.
The barrel was found on January 18 buried within some foliage partway down the embankment, with a toxicology report showing Charlise tested positive for Mr Stein’s schizophrenia medication.
Defence barrister Carolyn Davenport SC told the jury her client told “various versions” of what happened to the child to protect his former partner.
On Thursday, January 13, Justin Stein left the Wildenstein property at Mount Wilson in his Holden Colorado, police say, towing a boat carrying the barrel with Charlise's body inside.
A blue tarpaulin is believed to have been draped over the barrel in the boat.
According to GPS data detectives later obtained from Stein's mobile phone and his ute, he allegedly made the approximately one hour 20 minute journey to Marsden Park Bunnings.
At Bunnings, Stein bought five 20kg bags of sand and made a phone call to Kallista Mutten, police allege.
He then allegedly made a three minute drive to the BP service station at Marsden Park, where he filled up the boat with marine fuel and called Kallista Mutten again.
At some point, Stein must have emptied the bags of sand into the barrel to weight it down.
From the BP, it is at 40 minute drive to Five Dock boat ramp on the Parramatta River in inner western Sydney, where he is said to have failed to launch the motor boat, because it was 'inoperable'.
Stein again allegedly called Kallista Mutton and discussed his futile attempt to float the vessel and is then believed to have made the hour-long 60km drive to Windsor boat ramp......
Nah, he means one person, who is both his former partner and C's mum....right?News.com.au would have us believe that Stein saw 2 people standing over little Charlise after she was shot……
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"Stein again allegedly called Kallista Mutton and discussed his futile attempt to float the vessel and is then believed to have made the hour-long 60km drive to Windsor boat ramp......"
Nah, he means one person, who is both his former partner and C's mum....right?
So his pregnant girlfriend placed her child's body in the barrel and by herself, she loaded it into the ute?News.com.au would have us believe that Stein saw 2 people standing over little Charlise after she was shot……
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So his pregnant girlfriend placed her child's body in the barrel and by herself, she loaded it into the ute?
What happened to the part where she pointed a shot gun at his head to force him to help her? Didnt he say that somewhere? Or did I imagine that?
Katy, there has been very sloppy reporting from this trial, in my opinion.So his pregnant girlfriend placed her child's body in the barrel and by herself, she loaded it into the ute?
What happened to the part where she pointed a shot gun at his head to force him to help her? Didnt he say that somewhere? Or did I imagine that?
So his pregnant girlfriend placed her child's body in the barrel and by herself, she loaded it into the ute?
What happened to the part where she pointed a shot gun at his head to force him to help her? Didnt he say that somewhere? Or did I imagine that?
I’m not sure that will be much of an issue since obviously JS knew where the stuff was buried, per his prison conversation with his mum. So he either hid the stuff himself or had knowledge of it..OhOH----this could be a problem for Kalista-----Are they going to accuse her of burying those stolen weapons herself on the morning of the 13th?
https://www.news.com.au/national/ns...s/news-story/45dfcd1f89041a5af3ccc8a80745148a
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On Wednesday Carolyn Davenport SC, representing Mr Stein, told the court Ms Mutten drove off with Mr Stein’s car twice in the early hours of January 13, 2022.
The jury previously heard Ms Mutten had gone to a nearby campground to “pray” for her daughter and sent text messages “consistent with someone who” had a missing child.
Under cross-examination of Detective Sergeant Bradley Gardiner, Ms Davenport asked whether Ms Mutten was tracked when she left with Mr Stein’s car the second time that morning.
She asked: “There’s no tracking of her phone after she left the property the second time?”
“No, that’s correct,” Det Sgt Gardiner said.
Ms Davenport confirmed: “There’s no tracking of where she went between 9am and 10.30am on January 13.”
Det Sgt Gardiner told the court Ms Mutten had told police where she went.
“There’s no evidence to show us where she went,” Ms Davenport asked.
The officer-in-charge responded: “No.”
Ms Davenport then asked if there was any evidence to show Mr Stein drove to the location where the firearms were found on a fire trail near the Mount Wilson property.
Again, Det Sgt Gardiner said there was no evidenc
I don’t think they’re allowed to refer to past convictions or charges during a trial to ensure that the judgment is fair. They can usually only be taken into account when it comes to sentencing.Here is an old article, from 2023----have they referred to any of these charges during this trial?
https://www.news.com.au/national/ns...d/news-story/44435cbc2a8b4d749d85bedeb5d0bc03
Justin Stein was allegedly in possession of 21 child abuse videos, court documents have revealed.
Lawyers for Justin Stein, 31, appeared in Penrith Local Court on Friday. He faces a raft of charges including murder and possession of child abuse material.
Court documents have revealed Mr Stein is accused of possessing “16 category one, and five category two” videos which portrayed child sexual abuse.
“Videos depicted material, in a manner that would in all circumstances cause offence to reasonable persons, " the documents stated.