A man who murdered a British tourist in a regional Australian town has been declared mentally unfit for trial.
Royce Mallett, a father of two children from County Durham, was stabbed in the chest by a stranger in the car park of a motel in Albury, New South Wales, on 8 July 2024.
David Summers-Smith - who has schizophrenia and was displaying symptoms of psychosis at the time of the attack - pleaded not guilty to his murder due to mental impairment.
A judge on Tuesday found he did commit the murder, but could not be held criminally responsible, ordering Summers-Smith to be held indefinitely in a mental health facility.
The court heard Mallett, 30, had just climbed into a car parked outside the Hume Inn when Summers-Smith reached through the window and wordlessly stabbed him once with a steak knife.
