Arabic version: شهود يصفون أدلة في محاكمة جريمة القتل الثلاثية في بوغي

According to ABC News, witnesses gave emotional evidence as the Supreme Court trial of Queensland cattle farmer Darryl Valroy Young continued in Townsville. Young, 63, has pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.

Young is accused of fatally shooting his neighbour Graham Tighe, and Tighe’s mother and stepfather, Maree Schwarz and Mervyn Schwarz, during a meeting at the gate of his Bogie cattle station on August 4, 2022. He is also accused of attempting to murder Graham Tighe’s brother, Ross Tighe. His lawyer said Young never saw the family at the station gate that morning.

Ross Tighe’s former partner, whose identity cannot be published for legal reasons, told the court she saw his wound before he was collected by a rescue helicopter. Crying as she recalled events, she said the experience was “like a movie in my head, a horror movie”.

The woman said she had previously been at Graham Tighe’s neighbouring Sutherland Station and had encountered Young while fencing along the adjoining properties. She told the court he was “lingering around on his buggy” and “spying on everybody”. She also said she overheard a phone call the day before the alleged shootings in which a meeting at the Shannonvale border was discussed. Defence lawyer Anthony J Kimmins challenged whether the conversation had occurred and whether she had been present.

Young’s son, Derek Young, 39, testified that he had left the Shannonvale Station homestead on August 4 to tend cattle after helping wind farm workers enter the property. He said he later joined his father and Young’s stepmother at a ridge where workers were installing radar. Derek Young said the group learned of a shooting at about 11:30am, waited until their arrest, and travelled with a wind farm worker to meet police at the property gate. He said he did not see blood or a weapon on his father and noticed no change in his demeanour. The trial continues.