Two-and-a-half years since 9yo Charlise Mutton’s body was found inside a barrel after a 4-day search in NSW’s Blue Mountains, her mother’s former partner Justin Laurens Stein has been found guilty of her murder. The 33yo has been on trial in the NSW Supreme Court and admitted to disposing of her body but claimed her mother Kallista was the one who killed her. But after a week and a half of deliberations, the jury wasn’t convinced and yesterday found him guilty of murder for shooting Charlise twice with a rifle at his family’s Mount Wilson estate. Stein faces a maximum of life imprisonment and will learn his fate at a sentencing hearing in August. Justice Helen Wilson noted the impact the case had on the jury. “It’s not an easy thing to hear evidence about something as distressing as the violent death of, particularly, a child,” she said. 

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