Charlise Mutten homicide accused claimed nine-year-old screamed out his title after mum shot her, courtroom informed | New South Wales

After being charged with murdering his fiancee’s daughter, Justin Laurens Stein informed a corrections officer it was truly the woman’s mom who had killed the nine-year-old throughout an ice binge.

Stein, 33, is standing trial for homicide within the New South Wales supreme courtroom over the dying of schoolgirl Charlise Mutten, whose physique was present in a barrel by the Colo River within the Blue Mountains on 18 January 2022. He has pleaded not responsible.

On Tuesday, a corrections officer gave proof and informed the jury that, whereas being processed into Sydney’s Silverwater jail the day after the physique was recovered, she requested Stein: “Did you do it?”

An emotional Stein claimed to be harmless and mentioned he had witnessed the woman’s mom, Kallista Mutten, shoot her daughter, the jury heard.

“Her mum was on ice all week,” Stein mentioned, in response to the officer.

“I heard a shot after which I heard her screaming out for me. Then I ran again and she or he shot her once more.

“I maintain having flashbacks. I’m not happening for this.

“I’ve been making an attempt to inform folks this for days and nobody would pay attention. Thanks for letting me vent.”

Mutten was in a relationship with Stein on the time and the pair had deliberate to get married, the jury beforehand heard.

The corrections officer, Stacey Sweeney, informed the trial on Tuesday that “9 out of 10” inmates she met pleaded their innocence.

Police approached Sweeney afterwards to ask if Stein had mentioned something to her in the course of the interview, which she described as extremely uncommon.

Stein gave his mom Annemie the identical account in telephone calls from jail, which have been recorded and performed for the jury.

“The very last thing she screamed was my title and then you definitely heard ‘mummy no’ after which the second gunshot,” he informed his mom.

Annemie Stein mentioned she believed her son, however she questioned why he didn’t name police and why he was later tracked driving to a number of places throughout Sydney, allegedly with the barrel containing Charlise’s stays on the again of his ute.

“I simply can’t work out the barrel,” she mentioned.

Stein claimed within the recorded telephone name that Mutten had put the barrel with the stays on the again of the ute with out his data and solely knowledgeable him of it later whereas he was out driving the car.

“Is that why you drove round for 5 hours?” Annemie Stein requested.

“Sure, I fucking panicked,” he mentioned.

The trial continues.