Court allows alleged samurai sword killers to move to mountains
Actor Blake Davis and his barista girlfriend who allegedly killed a rapper with a samurai sword in Sydney’s inner west have won a minor court victory following concerns they could infect his mother with COVID if they lived with her.
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An actor who allegedly killed an aspiring rapper with a samurai sword is showing COVID-19 symptoms and has moved with his co-accused girlfriend to a new mountain retreat.
Blake Davis, 30, and his 25-year-old barista girlfriend Hannah Quinn were charged with murdering aspiring rapper Jett McKee following a botched home invasion in the city’s inner west in 2018.
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The pair lived with Davis’ mother in the Blue Mountains town of Lawson but applied to the NSW Supreme Court to ease their release conditions as the pandemic’s first wave raged in April.
At the time the pair were concerned the requirement to report to Katoomba’s police station five days a week would expose them to officers who may have been spat on by viral carriers.
The court, at that time, heard Davis’ mother has a lung condition and contracting the disease could be “fatal’ for her.
The couple’s legal teams told the court, on Thursday, the pair wanted to move to a different home in the Blue Mountains where they would live together.
Davis’ barrister apologised for her client’s absence, noting he was in isolation with COVID-19 symptoms. The court did not hear if he had tested positive to the coronavirus.
The court granted their application to move, and a separate application to suppress the address where they’d be living.
Davis’ legal team has previously told the court there would be no issue at trial that he sliced the 30-year-old would-be robber’s head open outside his flat in August 2018.
But they said whether Davis had acted in self defence and to protect his partner, and whether there was “extreme provocation” during the ill-fated shakedown would be “a very live issue.”