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Australian pins murder on 'imaginary friend' called Bert

Posted : Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:47:12 GMT
By : dpa
Category : Australasia (World)
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Sydney - An Australian who pleaded guilty to a murder charge Friday said a long-time "imaginary friend" called Bert had ordered the killing. "What Bert says, goes," Christopher Maddox, 28, told police when asked to explain a 2007 attack in which William Woods, 26, was slashed 40 times with a Samurai sword and then shot in the head with a nail gun.

Maddox's lawyer told the Melbourne court that Bert had been his imaginary companion since he was a toddler.

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