Charlise Mutten’s mom breaks down and flees the courtroom in tears after being accused of murdering her nine-year-old daughter: ‘You shot and killed her’

Charlise Mutten’s mom has damaged down within the witness field and fled the courtroom after being accused of killing her nine-year-old daughter.

Kallista Mutten was grilled by her ex-fiance Justin Stein’s lawyer on Tuesday about her extreme methamphetamine use, together with whereas pregnant along with his youngster.

However at about 11.15am, Carolyn Davenport SC put it to her: ‘You shot and killed your daughter’, to which Ms Mutten replied, ‘Are you severe?’

She then burst into tears, crying out ‘I did not even know the place she was shot’ earlier than Ms Davenport added that Stein ‘had seen you ship the second shot’. 

Ms Mutten then ran from the courtroom after being excused from the witness field whereas the jury was additionally briefly despatched out.     

The dramatic second got here after greater than an hour of proof by which Ms Mutten admitted taking methamphetamine even when her daughter came over.

Ms Mutten was being cross-examined on day 12 of Stein’s trial, who’s charged with Charlise’s homicide in January 2022. 

The 40-year-old agreed she had psychotic episodes whereas on ice and had continued to take the drug regardless of her Charlise’s go to in the course of the summer season faculty holidays in 2022.

She denied she and Charlise weren’t getting alongside within the days earlier than her loss of life, or that she had been instructed to go away the Stein’s Mount Wilson property.  

‘I selected to go away as a result of I did not need to be there any extra. Yeah, I used to be very hormonal, I used to be pregnant. Yeah, I used to be utilizing, yeah. My feelings had been very sturdy on the time,’ she stated.

Requested if she had continued to take ice regardless of being pregnant, Ms Mutten stated: ‘A number of events’, and when requested if that was with ‘no concern concerning the impact on her unnborn youngster’, she replied: ‘You possibly can say that, sure.’

Ms Mutten additionally agreed that Charlise was the product of a relationship with a person who was an ice person.

Stein, 33, has pleaded not responsible to murdering Charlise, however has admitted to disposing the schoolgirl’s physique.

He  is accused of murdering Charlise on the luxurious property, Wildenstein, owned by his mom earlier than allegedly concealing the kid’s physique in a  a plastic barrel and dumping it 50km away on the banks of the Colo River.

The woman was visiting her mom in the course of the faculty holidays, and spent her time in NSW cut up between Wildenstein, the place police allege she was fatally shot within the face at point-blank vary, and on the Riviera Ski Gardens caravan park in Decrease Portland the place Stein owned a van.

Below cross-examination, Ms Mutten denied on the time simply earlier than Charlise’s alleged homicide that Stein had instructed her the connection was over when the schoolgirl returned to the custody of her grandparents in Queensland.   

On Monday, the trial heard how Ms Mutten injected meth and had intercourse with Stein in a Sydney park simply hours after he allegedly shot Charlise useless at Mount Wilson within the Blue Mountains. 

Ms Mutten instructed the jury that when she realised later that Charlise was gone she needed to go to police however Stein claimed the schoolgirl’s ‘kidnappers’ would ‘kill her’ if her disappearance was reported.

 Crown prosecutor Ken McKay SC stated Stein was the ‘final particular person’ to see Charlise and had the chance to kill her between 7.16pm on January 11 and 10.06am on January 12. 

Ms Mutten instructed the jury on Monday she needed to go to police as soon as she realised ‘issues weren’t including up’, however Stein instructed her to not as his ‘ex-affiliates would kill her’.

Earlier than this, Stein had claimed Charlise had been left with an ‘auctioneer woman’ who had come to the home on January 12 and provided to take care of the sick woman.

The couple had arrived on the Mount Wilson property about 9pm on January 12 to search out the lights off and nobody residence.

The jury heard Ms Mutten had referred to as native hospitals that evening to verify whether or not Charlise had been admitted, however could not discover her.

Ms Mutten stated she was ‘attempting to be rational’ about the place Charlise was, and assumed the auctioneer had taken her daughter, who had been unwell and vomiting, residence to take care of her.

In a single day, the jury heard, Ms Mutten seemed by means of her companion’s cellphone the place she discovered messages which she believed had been proof of him dishonest.

Within the early hours of January 13, Ms Mutten took her companion’s automobile to a close-by campground the place she despatched a number of messages to pals saying her daughter was ‘gone’.

At this level, Ms Mutten instructed the jury issues ‘weren’t including up’ and when she returned to the property Stein ‘grabbed’ her, pushed her to the bottom and began ‘kicking’ her.

Ms Mutten instructed the jury: ‘I keep in mind simply yelling simply to cease as a result of I need my daughter.’

‘He stated ‘you are going to get in hassle for this’, he stated ‘do you assume I’ve obtained something to do with this on your daughter’,’ she stated.

Ms Mutten instructed the courtroom Stein then took a cellphone name from his mom, who instructed him the ‘the auctioneer woman isn’t the auctioneer woman’ and he thought his ‘ex-affiliations had … kidnapped her’.

She stated she needed to name police and Stein had stated no. 

‘He stated “you ring the police and they’ll kill her”,’ Ms Mutten instructed the courtroom, earlier than taking a second to wipe her tears.

The mom instructed the courtroom she was nonetheless affected by methylamphetamine she injected yesterday.

She instructed the courtroom it ‘numbs’ her from actuality.

‘Perhaps if I hadn’t been on medication I may need put the items collectively,’ Ms Mutten stated.

The trial earlier than Justice Helen Wilson continues.