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Daily Record
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Family friendly wrestling returning to NCT Centre in Newmains next month
Pro Wrestling Scotland are coming back to town with a brand new for a family entertainment spectacular. Family friendly wrestling is returning to the NCT Centre in Newmains next month. Pro Wrestling Scotland are coming back to town with a brand new for a family entertainment spectacular. The likes of Angel Hayze, Danny Clarke, BT Gunn and Kid Fite have already been announced. The show gives children and their families the opportunity to see see the amazing, larger than life characters of Scottish wrestling. Your children will also be given the opportunity to have their photo taken with wrestlers after the event with its Meet The Stars experience. Home town hero Ben Rodgers will challenge BT Gunn for the Pro Wrestling Scotland Heavyweight Championship at the show. Gunn, the current PWS Heavyweight champion, is one of the best the UK has every produced and has had two successful against two of the brightest stars in the UK today in Danny Clarke and Sam Taylor with some help and some underhanded tactics. Ben Rodgers star has been rising all over the UK. Will the home town boy be able to bring the gold home or will BT Gunn's experience be too much the new star. *Don't miss the latest headlines from around Lanarkshire. Sign up to our newsletters here. And did you know Lanarkshire Live had its own app? Download yours for free here.
ABC News
15-07-2025
- ABC News
Jury returns verdict for accused trio in Charlie Gander murder trial
A Supreme Court jury has found a man guilty of murdering 19-year-old Charlie Gander in 2022, after three days of deliberation. Mr Gander's body was found on a dirt road in Bunbartha on Christmas Eve after emergency services were called to extinguish a car that had been set on fire. Kylie Stott, Dimitri D'Elio and Danny Clarke pleaded not guilty to kidnapping, murder and arson in a nearly seven-week trial that heard from emergency services, DNA experts, police officers, and pathologists, and was described by a prosecutor as a case "about retribution". The jury delivered its verdict at Victoria's Supreme Court on Tuesday afternoon, finding D'Elio, who was aged 24 at the time of offending, guilty of all three charges. Stott, who was aged 37 at the time, in a relationship with D'Elio, and described by the prosecution as orchestrating the scheme, was found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter, guilty of kidnapping and not guilty of arson. The jury found Clarke, who was 38 at the time of offending, guilty of kidnapping and not guilty of murder, manslaughter and arson. All three accused were expressionless as the verdict was read to the court. During the opening days of the trial, Crown prosecutor Mark Gibson said the court would hear a case "about retribution" and "a desire to punish a person" for what they believed they had done. He alleged the trio acted as a team to kidnap, kill and incinerate Mr Gander in an "unnecessary, senseless and callous" act. Mr Gibson told the court the alleged motive was Mr Gander's cooperation with police investigating a firearms breach by Tyson May, who was a good friend of Stott. Following a police raid in Shepparton in November 2022, Mr Gander gave a police interview and made a witness statement about Mr May possessing a firearm. Mr May was under a firearms prohibition order, Mr Gibson said. A disc with the record of Mr Gander's police interview "found its way into the hands of others" and cost Mr Gander "dearly", Mr Gibson said. He presented evidence to the court, including Google searches from D'Elio's phone for a "dead body in burned car" several days before media coverage of the death, as well as records from Stott's phone labelling the victim as "Charlie dead dog Gander". As part of court evidence, the jury travelled from Melbourne to Shepparton, Bunbartha and Nathalia to view key locations in the case. A court appearance to schedule plea dates has been set for later this month.
ABC News
02-06-2025
- General
- ABC News
Victorian jury hears triple-0 call, views images of human remains in Christmas Eve murder trial
A former CFA captain has told a jury about finding human remains in a burnt car, as three people face trial accused of kidnapping and murdering 19-year-old Charlie Gander. Kylie Stott, Danny Clarke and Dimitri D'Elio, all residing in Shepparton at the time, have been charged with kidnapping, murder and arson following the death of the Benalla teenager on Christmas Eve in 2022. At the time of the alleged offending, Ms Stott was aged 37, Mr D'Elio was 24, and Mr Clarke 38. The trio have pleaded not guilty to all charges. Mr Gander's body was found after emergency services responded to a car fire on Loch Garry Road, in Bunbartha, about 15 kilometres north of Shepparton. Current CFA volunteer and former captain of the Tallygaroopna brigade, Jeffrey Gleeson, told the Victorian Supreme Court of crews finding the car near bushland, "fully engulfed" with "smoke emitting from the car". As two men in breathing apparatus began to put out the fire, Mr Gleeson said he inspected the car's interior and exterior. "I was walking around near the passenger side. I glanced inside the vehicle, saw what I thought were human remains," he told the court. Mr Gleeson conferred with a colleague and then decided to halt the fire suppression process to leave the scene as intact as possible for investigators, he told the court. The jury also viewed photos of the skeletal remains taken by crime scene investigators, including a skull and internal organs. Bunbartha resident Pauline Dempsey, who alerted emergency services via a triple-0 call, was brought as a witness, and an audio recording of her call played to the jury. Mrs Dempsey told the court she saw "billowing black smoke" and was concerned for her home and neighbourhood because of the hot and dry conditions. She told the court she saw the car explode and could be heard telling the triple-0 operator that the car had exploded for a second time while on the call. The jury was also shown footage from police's body-worn cameras as they arrived to inspect the scene. The footage showed Leading Senior Constable Steven Turpin walking towards the burnt-out car, which is situated near trees in a remote area. During the opening days of the trial, crown prosecutor Mark Gibson KC told the the court they would hear a case "about retribution" and "a desire to punish a person" for what they believed they'd done. He alleged the trio acted as a team to kidnap, kill and incinerate Mr Gander in an "unnecessary, senseless and callous" act. He presented evidence to the court including Google searches from Mr D'Elio's phone for a "dead body in burned car" several days before media coverage of the death, as well as records from Ms Stott's phone labelling the victim as "Charlie dead dog Gander". Mr Gibson alleged their motive was that Mr Gander had told police about the criminal conduct of a person called Tyson May, to whom the trio had a "misplaced alliance". On Monday, two of the trio's lawyers rejected the prosecution's argument that the matter was linked to a desire for retribution against the teenager. The jury members are expected to travel to Shepparton and the surrounding area this week to view the sites mentioned in the case as part of court evidence.
