Life sentence for Erica Liddy murderer Andreas Mueller after guilty plea
A CAIRNS taxi driver has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a 21-year-old student he picked up in his cab last year.
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A CAIRNS taxi driver has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a 21-year-old student he picked up in his cab last year.
Erica Liddy had moved to Cairns from Coen on Cape York to further her studies as a ranger before she got into Kuranda man Andreas Mueller's taxi on April 10, last year.
Mueller, 52, had agreed to take the young woman to a friend's home, but on the way there she asked if she could go to his place instead.
The crown prosecution told the Cairns Supreme Court that just before dawn, Mr Mueller stabbed Ms Liddy below the eye with a butter knife while she slept on a couch at his home, then lay her on his bed and went to sleep next to her.