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Tara Cosoleto

REVEALED: Judge rejects murderer s preposterous defence claim | Vintage Vibes

A man who murdered his father fabricated a preposterous self-defence story, a judge said. (James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)

It is incomprehensible that a man bashed his defenceless father to  death with a baseball bat and then claimed he was only trying to defend himself, a judge has said. 

Victorian Supreme Court Justice Andrew Tinney described Aaron Bernath's fabricated self-defence story as "preposterous" as the 37-year-old faced a pre-sentence hearing on Thursday.

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