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Abe Maddison

'I'll make you No.4': murder trial told of death threat

A man is on trial for murdering Phyllis Harrison, Stephen Newton and Beverley Hanley. (HANDOUT/SOUTH AUSTRALIA POLICE)

A man accused of three cold-case murders confronted a crown witness in prison and told him "I'll make you number four", a court has been told.

Mildura man Steven Leslie Hainsworth, 49, is on trial in the South Australian Supreme Court charged with the murders of Phyllis Harrison, 71, at Elizabeth South in 1998, Beverley Hanley, 64, at Elizabeth North in 2010 and Stephen Newton, 55, at Mt Gambier in 2011.

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