Dealer Guilty of Murder as ‘Bystander’ Claim Rejected

A former bikie’s claims he was just an innocent bystander witnessing the brutal death of a Sydney woman whose body was found burnt in the bush have been rejected by a jury. Namja Carroll, 33, was killed on July 14, 2020 and her body discovered 15 days later by a bushwalker hiking through the Sandy Point area. A jury found one of her killers, Benjamin Troy Parkes, guilty of murder on April 3 after a six-week trial in the NSW Supreme Court. The 46-year-old unsuccessfully argued that a man he sold drugs with, Robert Sloan, was the one who beat Ms. Carroll and attempted to dispose of her corpse by dousing it in petrol and setting it alight....