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Duncan Murray

Privilege and lies: the wasted life of girl's killer

A sentencing judge says there is nothing to help explain Justin Stein's "shockingly callous" crime. (HANDOUT/NSW POLICE)

Decades before he became one of Australia's most notorious killers for shooting dead a vulnerable schoolgirl, Justin Stein enjoyed a life of privilege.

But years of drug use and addiction left the 33-year-old living off government welfare and hand-outs from his mother after he squandered an elite private-school upbringing.

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