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Duncan Murray

Life-in-prison bid for schoolgirl's callous 'execution'

Charlise Mutten had been visiting her mother and Justin Stein when she was killed. (HANDOUT/NSW POLICE)

Slain schoolgirl Charlise Mutten probably spent her final moments in terror, a grim likelihood that justified a life sentence for her heartless murderer, a court has been told.

The nine-year-old longed to have a father, but the man she trusted to fill that role and called "Daddy" instead shot her dead and dumped her body inside a barrel.

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