Vic: Man to stand trail on grocer's murder
A Melbourne man is to stand trial for the murder of the owner of an Asian grocery whoallegedly refused to pay protection money.
Magistrate FRANCIS HODGENS has committed 28-year-old MARK BARLOW, of East St Kilda,to stand trial after hearing from witnesses who said BARLOW had confessed to them.
Forty-one-year-old DAI TAN LY, who ran an Asian grocery in suburban Box Hill, was fatallystabbed and found lying in a pool of blood on the doorstep of his Mount Waverley homeabout 8 pm on October 10, 2000.
The Melbourne Magistrates Court heard that BARLOW told friends after the murder thathe had been hired to deal with Mr LY because he'd refused to comply with extortion demands.
BARLOW, a drug addict at the time, was to be paid in heroin.
BARLOW pleaded not guilty to the murder today, and will face a directions hearing inthe Supreme Court on June 3.
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KEYWORD: BARLOW (MELBOURNE)
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