NSW: Intinerant man charged with motel room murder

AAP General News (Australia)
08-22-2006
NSW: Intinerant man charged with motel room murder

SYDNEY, Aug 22 AAP - An itinerant man suspected of murdering a young woman in a hotel
room on the NSW central coast has been arrested on a river bank near Forster.

The 50-year-old man, of no fixed abode, was found yesterday by police on the banks
of the Manning River and later charged with murdering the woman last week, police said.

Detectives from strike force Karrabee found the man.

The body of the 36-year-old woman was found in a Forster motel room on August 14.

She was from Mount Burrell, near Nimbin, in northern NSW.

The man will appear in Taree Local Court today.

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KEYWORD: KARRABEE

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