A teenage foreign exchange student accused of murdering a fellow Chinese national at their host family's Lake Macquarie home last year has pleaded not guilty and will face a trial in NSW Supreme Court.
The now 14-year-old, who cannot be identified, appeared in Broadmeadow Children's Court on Monday charged with the stabbing murder of a 14-year-old girl at a home at Edgeworth on the night of August 4.