NSW: Jury discharged without verdict at Chant murder trial

AAP General News (Australia)
04-02-2009
NSW: Jury discharged without verdict at Chant murder trial

A judge has discharged the jury at the New South Wales Supreme Court trial of a woman
accused of shooting her husband dead and dismembering his body.

The jury told New South Wales Supreme Court Justice RODERICK HOWIE it couldn't decide
if the incident was murder .. manslaughter or simply an accident.

JOYCE CHANT denies killing her husband ROBERT CHANT in September 1992 but has admitted
to dismembering his torso .. legs and arm and dumping them in three separate locations
across the state.

During Ms CHANT'S trial the jury was told her violent .. abusive husband was accidentally
shot during a struggle over a gun.

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KEYWORD: CHANT (SYDNEY)

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