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Man who strangled girlfriend overturns murder sentence

A Sydney man who took LSD and strangled his girlfriend believing she was a demon has quashed a 20-year jail sentence after being diagnosed with schizophrenia.

AAP · Apr 12, 2024

Murder conviction overturned four years after Emerald's death

Jordan Miller's conviction was quashed on appeal.

Newcastle Herald · Apr 12, 2024

Schizophrenia diagnosis could see strangulation killer's conviction overturned

Jordan Miller was found guilty of murdering Emerald Wardle, 18, at Metford in 2020.

Newcastle Herald · Apr 5, 2024

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Major psychiatric development in Emerald Wardle murder case

The expert reports come nearly four years after Emerald Wardle was killed.

Newcastle Herald · Mar 24, 2024

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Newcastle Herald · Jan 10, 2024

Jordan Miller calling fresh psychiatric evidence in murder appeal

The jury found the psychosis he was suffering was caused solely by using drugs.

Newcastle Herald · Oct 15, 2023

Jordan Miller sentenced over drug-induced murder of Emerald Wardle

Jordan Miller, the young man who brutally murdered his teenage girlfriend while he was in a drug-induced psychosis near Maitland, has been sentenced to a maximum of 20 years in jail.

Newcastle Herald · Oct 6, 2022

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NSW 'cursed' killer jailed for 20 years

Jordan Brodie Miller has been sentenced to a maximum jail term of 20 years for murdering his girlfriend while delusional and psychotic after taking LSD.

AAP · Oct 6, 2022

Man who killed teenage girlfriend in NSW Hunter Valley sentenced to 20 years behind bars

Jordan Brodie Miller, who claimed he thought girlfriend Emerald Wardle was a life-sucking demon when he strangled her to death, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, with a non-parole period of 13 years.

ABC News · Oct 6, 2022

Sentencing submissions for Emerald Wardle's murderer, Jordan Brodie Miller, heard in NSW Supreme Court

The parents of 18-year-old Emerald Wardle tell the NSW Supreme Court how her murder has devastated their lives. Her killer, 21-year-old Jordan Brodie Miller, faces a maximum sentence of life behind bars.

ABC News · Aug 18, 2022

Student murdered teen girlfriend he thought was demon 'sucking life out of him'

Jordan Brodie Miller had taken LSD 11 days before the killing with witnesses saying they noticed a change in his behaviour becoming more argumentative, speaking of being more intelligent and of losing his "ego"

Daily Mirror · Jun 14, 2022

NSW man guilty of murdering girlfriend

NSW man Jordan Brodie Miller has been found guilty of murdering his girlfriend Emerald Wardle while in a psychotic state believing she was a demon.

AAP · Jun 14, 2022

Jury finds 'psychotic' man who killed teenage girlfriend guilty of murder

A Supreme Court jury rejects a New South Wales man's defence that he was mentally impaired when he strangled his girlfriend because he believed she had turned into a "demon".

ABC News · Jun 14, 2022

Guilty verdict in Metford murder trial over death of Emerald Wardle

A man who strangled his girlfriend to death at Metford because he thought she was a "demon" has been found guilty of murder after a jury found the psychosis he was suffering was caused solely by using LSD and cannabis.

Newcastle Herald · Jun 14, 2022

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Newcastle Herald · Jun 7, 2022

Jordan Miller murder trial: jury to decide cause of killer's psychosis

There is no dispute it was Jordan Brodie Miller, now 21, who killed his girlfriend Emerald Wardle at a home in Galway Crescent in the early hours of June 20, 2020.

Newcastle Herald · May 31, 2022

Psychotic episodes lasted months after Metford killing, court hears

During the Newcastle Supreme Court trial of Jordan Brodie Miller on Tuesday, psychiatrist reports were read out detailing his behaviour in custody after his June 2020 arrest.

AAP · May 31, 2022

Girlfriend killer's psychosis continued

Jordan Brodie Miller, who killed his girlfriend thinking she was a demon, continued his psychosis afterwards and saw "glitches" in reality, a jury has heard.

Newcastle Herald · May 30, 2022

Court hears accused likely in drug-induced psychosis when he killed girlfriend Emerald Wardle

Psychiatrist gives evidence in murder trial of Jordan Brodie Miller

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ABC News · May 27, 2022

Supreme court jury hears police interview of man accused of killing 'demon' girlfriend

A court has heard a first-hand account from the man accused of killing his girlfriend because he thought she was a demon.

ABC News · May 24, 2022

Jordan Miller faces Newcastle court for alleged murder of Emerald Wardle

The mother of a young woman who was killed by her boyfriend in the Hunter Valley has told his murder trial he was a passive, gentle giant.

AAP · May 18, 2022

Killer told cops girlfriend was a 'demon'

The jury in Jordan Brodie Miller's murder trial has to decide if he killed his girlfriend because of a drug-induced psychosis or undiagnosed schizophrenia.

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