Jury to Consider Homeless Man or Partner in Murder Case

A jury will decide whether the death of a Victorian woman found at home with traumatic brain injury and fractured neck bones was at the hands of a man she had met a few hours earlier or her partner of 25 years. Narelle Emerson, a 45-year-old former bookkeeper, was found with those severe injuries on October 18, 2019 and died in hospital 20 days later after doctors took her off life support. Scott Kennedy, of no fixed address, was charged with her murder but pleaded not guilty and went on trial in the Supreme Court on June 4. Prosecutor Catherine Parkes told the jury Ms. Emerson and her on-and-off partner of about 25 years John Flegg were at her Morwell home on October 17 when the accused was invited over by Ms. Emerson’s 13-year-old friend....