NSW: Different verdicts for brothers in policeman stab case

AAP General News (Australia)
12-24-1998
NSW: Different verdicts for brothers in policeman stab case

SYDNEY, Dec 24 AAP - A man was found guilty today of the stabbing murder of Sydney
policeman David Carty, but a jury cleared his brother of murder and found him guilty of a
lesser charge.

Dawood Odishou, also known as Gilbert Adam, 32, of Fairfield, was convicted of Constable
Carty's murder at the Cambridge Tavern, Fairfield, early on April 18 last year.

His brother Richard Adam, 30, also of Fairfield, was found not guilty of murder, not guilty
of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm with the intent to do so, but guilty of
maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm.

Const Carty was stabbed to death in the hotel's carpark, and the crown case was that
Gilbert Adam inflicted the fatal knife wound to his heart and Richard Adam was among a number
of men who punched and kicked the policeman as he lay dying.

The New South Wales Supreme Court jury of eight men and four women brought in its verdicts
after retiring for more than two-and-a-half days at the end of a trial lasting nearly 11
weeks.

Justice James Wood remanded both men in custody for sentencing in February.

Four other men charged with Const Carty's murder will face a separate trial next year.

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