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Rex Martinich

Murder accused to cop: girl 'still not risen' from dead

Kerrie Struhs was due to meet a parole officer the day before her daughter died, a judge has heard. (HANDOUT/MICHAEL FELIX)

A religious group leader accused of murdering the daughter of two of his followers told police the girl "hasn't risen" from the dead despite his prayers, a judge has heard. 

Brendan Luke Stevens, the 62-year-old leader of a small Christian group called 'The Saints, refused to enter a plea in the Brisbane Supreme Court to the murder of eight-year-old Elizabeth Rose Struhs at Toowoomba, west of Brisbane, on January 7, 2022.

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