Police brave croc-infested creek in search for murder weapon
COOKTOWN MURDER
POLICE are searching for a knife allegedly used in the murder of a Cooktown man over the weekend.
Divers and water police are currently scouring the crocodile inhabited Two Mile Creek in Cooktown where it’s believed the murder weapon could have been tossed.
Samuel Austen Wells, 21, appeared in the Cairns Magistrates Court yesterday after being charged with stabbing his neighbour, 41 year-old David McLelland, to death.
Police arrived at a Hegarty Close residence around 9.35pm on Friday night and found a man inside with multiple wounds. He died at the scene.
It is the third murder investigation in Cooktown in the past year, with police still searching for the killer of mother-of-two Donna Louise Steele, whose body was found in a creek north of Cooktown on August 6.
Elderly woman Lesley Blackwell, 71, was also murdered in February. She was allegedly shot by her 46 year-old daughter, Maree Anne Blackwell, on a Cooktown property.
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