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Duncan Murray

Man acquitted after confessing he slit victim's throat

A man who confessed to a 2010 murder has been cleared of the crime on appeal. (Peter Rae/AAP PHOTOS)

A man who admitted slitting the throat of William Chaplin in 2010 has been acquitted of the crime after a court deemed his confession unreliable.

A panel of three NSW Court of Criminal Appeal judges overturned his murder conviction on Friday, calling the man most likely either a compulsive liar, a fantasist, or both.

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