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Court hears alleged murderer was 'an adulterer and violent' but not a killer

A court has heard that while a man accused of killing his wife admits he was "playing around with other women and at times violent", that did not make him guilty of murder. 

John Douglas Bowie, 72, has pleaded not guilty to killing his wife Roxlyn Bowie on or about June 5, 1982 when she disappeared from their home in Walgett, in north-west NSW.

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