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Rex Martinich

Workmate says murder accused 'broken' by family dispute

Travis Barnes said his workmate Jason Richard Struhs had been subject to "constant religious push". (Jono Searle/AAP PHOTOS)

A father accused of murder was viewed by his friend as a "broken man" torn between giving his daughter life-saving medication and his family's beliefs against medicine, a judge has heard.

Elizabeth Struhs died at the family home in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane on January 7, 2022 after her parents and 12 others allegedly withheld the eight-year-old's insulin for six days as they gathered around her in prayer.

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