Vanuatu man pleads not guilty to murder in Queensland over botched amputation attempt

from Pacific Beat · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

A Vanuatu man is on trial at the Supreme Court in Cairns, having pleaded not guilty to murder over the amputation and death of an Australian man in 2022. John Yalu told the Cairns Supreme Court that the victim had asked him to amputate his leg.

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