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On 14 May 1999, Matthew O'Grady and Christopher Brown were at a party where they consumed drugs. They were aged (approximately) 16 years and 15 years. Sometime around 11pm, they and others left, walking in the direction of the Wentworth Falls train station. O’Grady persuaded Brown to go into the bush on the pretence of stealing some marijuana. He had access to a gun that belonged to his father. O’Grady shot Brown several times and then left him.
At about 11am the following morning, O’Grady arrived at the Katoomba police station. He informed the police officer at the desk that he had something to tell him. He was taken to an interview room, where he announced that he had killed someone.
R v O’Grady [2001] NSWSC 1256, 6 December 2000
R v O’Grady [2001] NSWSC 1255, 21 December 2001
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