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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Sam Rigney

Man accused of Cessnock tip murder claims he is unfit to stand trial

SEARCH: Specialist police at Cessnock Waste Management Centre in July, 2020. Adam Andrew Bidner, accused of murdering Shane Mears by running him over at the tip, faced a fitness hearing in NSW Supreme Court on Monday.

Lawyers for Adam Bidner, accused of hitting a rival scrap metal collector with his car and leaving him for dead at the Cessnock waste management facility in 2020, claim he is unfit to stand trial due to a traumatic brain injury he suffered in a car accident a number of years ago.

But a clinical neuropsychologist who assessed Mr Bidner last month told NSW Supreme Court on Monday that testing showed he was malingering and exaggerating any cognitive impairment.

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