The 56-year-old's barrister said he confessed to undercover police that he killed teenager Michelle Bright because he was caught in a 'ruse'. 9News
of teenager Michelle Bright did so falsely because he is unsophisticated and vulnerable to manipulation, a jury has heard.more than 20 years ago because he was caught in a "ruse", his barrister Nicholas Broadbent told a NSW Supreme Court jury.
Parallel to the covert police operation, Rumsby was entangled in a romance scam, in which he believed he was in a relationship with an American woman who promised to come to Australia and buy the pair a house."About his vulnerability to manipulation; his gullibility and his willingness to accept the farfetched where he perceives a benefit; his lack of sophistication; his ability to consider risk against reward.
Rumsby is accused of murdering Bright after she left a friend's 15th birthday party in Gulgong, central west NSW in the early hours of February 27, 1999. The jury heard earlier in the trial the woman, who cannot be named, did not press charges against Rumsby and retracted a statement she made at the time as she feared going to court and having her character discredited.
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