ONE of the darkest chapters in Young’s history is nearing its close with the mother of Corey Power’s murderer being found guilty of being an accessory after the fact of unlawful killing.
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A jury delivered its verdict on Annette Heather Allen last week after a District Court trial in Sydney.
Allen, 58, pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact of armed robbery in relation to a raid on a Young service station by her son – Owen Fuller – nine days before he bludgeoned Mr Power to death with a tomahawk.
Allen will be sentenced on June 23.
All people charged over 33-year-old Mr Power’s death on August 29, 2013, have now had decisions in their cases.
Fuller, 21, last year was jailed for 17 years for the murder and other crimes, while co-plotter Nathan John Blundell was jailed for seven years for being an accessory before the fact of murder.
Fuller’s brother, Thomas Charles McGill, and Tamsin Marie Paul last month pleaded guilty to concealment and hindering charges relating to the murder and the armed robbery respectively.
Paul will be sentenced in Downing Centre District Court on May 25.
McGill’s case has been stood over to October 27 in the same court for sentencing submissions.
Before then, McGill is listed for sentence in Wagga Local Court on May 26 on charges of driving with a high-range prescribed concentration of alcohol, driving in a dangerous manner and driving with an expired licence.
McGill has previously pleaded guilty to those offences.
Fuller and Blundell were furious with Mr Power when a criminal deal with him soured.
Fuller and Blundell had raided a small business, and among the booty was a generator.
They took the generator to Mr Power and he “fenced” it then refused to give Fuller and Blundell a cut.
After a flurry of angry social media exchanges and other bitter communication, Fuller lured Mr Power into the street in the early hours of a freezing winter’s morning.
Fuller repeatedly struck Mr Power in the head with the blunt end of a tomahawk and left him to die in the street.
Passers-by found Mr Power in his last minutes of life.
The murder came during a violent crime spree by Fuller that included robbing the Young Caltex service station of $500 and numerous packets of cigarettes while armed with a crowbar.
He was also involved in several violent bashings.
Knowing police were on his tail, Fuller fled to Queensland where he committed another armed robbery.
He was serving a three-year jail sentence for that heist when he was extradited to NSW in late 2014, pleading guilty to murder a year later.
