Qld man found guilty of stabbing murder
Tyler Joseph Kelleher has been found guilty of murder three years after CCTV footage was discovered of Joel Frew being fatally stabbed outside a Brisbane unit.
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Footage shown of Qld man being stabbed
The moment a man is fatally stabbed outside a Queensland unit has been shown in court on CCTV footage in Tyler Joseph Kelleher's Brisbane murder trial.
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