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Rex Martinich

'Texts deleted' before mum accused of smoothie murder

Tara Crabtree testified her mother crushed up drugs and gave them in a smoothie to her brother. (Rex Martinich/AAP PHOTOS)

A woman who says her mother killed her brother with a lethal fruit smoothie has admitted she arranged to delete messages while making murder allegations to police, a jury has heard.

Tara Crabtree had claimed her mother asked her to "keep lookout" as she crushed up a fatal dose of drugs and put them in her brother's drink, later hearing her sibling struggling after he had consumed it.

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