A person accused of murdering his former spouse by operating her automotive off a rustic highway at excessive velocity has been ordered to seem in courtroom for the primary time because the crash, which left him disabled.
He additionally faces two tried homicide fees associated to passengers within the sedan, who had been left with minor accidents, together with three counts of breaching apprehended violence orders.
Armstrong has not entered pleas and can face a committal listening to in July.
Magistrate David Day requested whether or not Armstrong, who’s in Long Bay jail’s hospital, is match to attend the listening to through audio-visual hyperlink.
“He is fit to appear,” Armstrong’s lawyer Drew Hamilton informed Orange Local Court throughout a short point out on Thursday.
“It does take some work to get him in the AVL suite, but he can appear.”
Day set the listening to date and requested that Armstrong seem from custody.
It would be the first time he has confronted courtroom, having been critically injured within the June 9 crash.
Armstrong was below 24-hour guard within the intensive care unit at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney within the months afterwards with severe mind and spinal accidents.
During an unsuccessful bail utility final 12 months, Hamilton informed the courtroom Armstrong posed little danger to the neighborhood as he had a part of his cranium eliminated and will not stroll.
Police prosecutor Carl Smith described Armstrong as “an extremely dangerous person” who left the surviving victims in concern, regardless of his accidents.
“(They) were terrified before this incident, they’re even more terrified now,” Sergeant Smith informed the sooner listening to.
“He knew driving 140km/h into a car of the likelihood that he’d be killing his wife, but (also) anyone else in that motor vehicle.”
The case has taken a 12 months to achieve the committal stage, partly as a result of the vehicles had been despatched to America for specialist forensic testing.
Armstrong was one among many ladies remembered at an anti-gendered violence rally in Orange final month.
Her household and mates have attended every courtroom look since Armstrong’s arrest, carrying purple in her honour.
The case will return to courtroom on July 11.
Source: www.9news.com.au
