NSW: Last person to see alleged murder victim gives evidence

AAP General News (Australia)
08-08-2007
NSW: Last person to see alleged murder victim gives evidence

SYDNEY, Aug 8 AAP - The last person known to have seen a wealthy Sydney widow has given
evidence at the trial of the man accused of murdering her.

Builder Kenneth Hulse told the NSW Supreme Court today he had been working at the home
of Dorothy Davis on May 30, 1995.

He said she popped out to see a doctor and when she returned, around 1pm, told him
she was going out again.

"She was going to visit a friend who had got cancer and was going to walk around there,
it wasn't far," he told the court.

Mrs Davis had said the friend was female and had lost her hair when she had had chemotherapy.

The crown has told the jury that description would fit Dallas Burrell, who was Bruce
Burrell's wife at the time.

Burrell, 54, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Mrs Davis on or about May 30, 1995
at an unknown place in NSW.

At the time, the Burrells lived around the corner from Mrs Davis at Lurline Bay in
Sydney's eastern suburbs.

Mr Hulse told the court the last he saw of Mrs Davis was when she went down the road
towards the sea.

The trial is continuing.

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KEYWORD: BURRELL

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