NSW: Jury retires to consider verdict in teacher murder case

AAP General News (Australia)
04-29-1999
NSW: Jury retires to consider verdict in teacher murder case

SYDNEY, April 29 AAP - A jury retired today to consider its verdict in a case in which a
25-year-old man was charged with murdering a schoolteacher.

Benjamin Bruce Andrew pleaded not guilty in the New South Wales Supreme Court to the May
1990 murder of Wayne George Tonks, 35, at Artarmon in Sydney's north.

Andrew was 16 at the time.

The crown alleged he and another boy killed Mr Tonks after Andrew was sexually assaulted by
the teacher.

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