A man has been charged with murdering a 54-year old man who was found dead in his burnt-out unit at a beachside suburb in Newcastle.
The charge comes as senior homicide detectives say the victim, Graham Cameron, was stabbed to death before a fire was lit in an attempt to conceal the crime.
Mr Cameron's body was found after emergency services were called to a unit fire at Stockton, in the north of the NSW city, just before dawn on July 26 last year.