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Rex Martinich

High Court denies murder appeal based on self-defence

Mark Spencer was attacked in his own home with a baseball bat and tennis racquet. (HANDOUT/SPENCER FAMILY)

A man who claimed he reasonably acted in self-defence when he bashed his girlfriend's ex-lover to death has been denied a High Court appeal against his murder conviction.

Mark Vincent Dayney, then 35, was found guilty by a jury in December 2021 of murdering Mark Emanuel Spencer in the Gold Coast suburb of Coomera.

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