A 20-year-old New South Wales woman has been remanded in custody following the stabbing death of her mother's boyfriend, a 35-year-old New Zealand man.
The incident occurred at Woolomin, 40km south of Tamworth, in northern New South Wales on Saturday.
Tamworth police said today the man's name had not yet been released, as relatives in New Zealand were still to be found.
A police spokesman understood the man had moved from New Zealand to Australia in about 1986.
Lacy Lee Jukes appeared in Tamworth Local Court yesterday on charges of murder, maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm and being armed with intent to commit an indictable offence.
She was arrested on Saturday afternoon after police responded to her emergency call from a house neighbouring her mother's home in the village of Woolomin.
They found the body of the New Zealander, with a stab wound under the left armpit.
Police said the man was involved in a relationship with the accused's mother and was living at the house along with the accused and her three children, aged eight months to four years.
The trio apparently became involved in a domestic argument on Saturday afternoon, which ended with the man being stabbed once with a serrated kitchen knife, the Tamworth Northern Daily Leader reported.
The man died shortly afterwards.
A post-mortem examination is to be carried out in Sydney.
Jukes was refused bail after her arrest because of her transient nature, the seriousness of the offence and the strength of the prosecution case.
The case has been adjourned to November 10.
- NZPA
New Zealand
