Julia DeLuney at High Court. Photo: RNZ / Mark Papalii
Julia DeLuney has interrupted the Crown during closing arguments in the High Court.
She is on trial in Wellington and is accused of murdering her 79-year-old mother Helen Gregory at her Khandallah home in January 2024.
DeLuney denies the charge and faces a jury in the High Court, with the trial nearing the end of its fourth week.
Crown prosecutor Stephanie Bishop is about halfway through her closing arguments, which began Thursday morning.
But when - during her address to the jury - she suggested that there would be no good reason for someone to check the skip late that night at the DeLuneys' address, DeLuney called out angrily - "Our dogs".
The Crown's case is that she disposed of bloody clothes and a vase, before changing her mind, and disposing of them in a passing rubbish truck the next morning.
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