Vic: Revenge killer stabbed wrong man, court told

AAP General News (Australia)
01-21-2004
Vic: Revenge killer stabbed wrong man, court told

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By Royal Abbott

MELBOURNE, Jan 21 AAP - A homeless man was stabbed to death on the steps of a Melbourne
CBD church in a tragic case of mistaken identity, the Victorian Supreme Court heard today.

The claim was made on the opening day of the trial of 22-year-old Mohamud Bashe Hassan,
of Flemington, who has been charged with murdering Andrew Charles Smith, 24.

Smith, a homeless man, was asleep with his girlfriend outside the Collins Street Baptist
Church on June 14 last year when he was …