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A man who fatally stabbed a sleeping squatter, in what WA s Chief Justice described as an utterly senseless murder, has been sentenced to life with an 18-year minimum.
Key points:
His killer did not return to check on him or call an ambulance
His body was discovered by police two days later
David Morris Best, 59, used a large knife to inflict a single stab wound in the chest of 23-year-old Roy Erwin as he slept on a mattress in a shed at the rear of a vacant property in Mandurah in February 2019.
That property adjoined Best s home, and the Supreme Court was told he became angry after seeing Mr Erwin taking cigarette butts from his backyard.