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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
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Toby Vue

No 'silver-bullet cause of death' as experts disagree in murder trial

Peter Keeley calling an auction in 2013. His body was found in bushland in Broulee in February 2020. Picture: Jay Cronan

Whether the severity of an auctioneer's head injuries from an assault was the cause of his death is in dispute between two forensic pathologists as they give evidence in a murder trial.

Two of the accused, 17 at the time of the death, have denied murdering Canberra man Peter Keeley after his body was found - with tape around his feet, hands and face - in Broulee on the NSW South Coast in February 2020.

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