TEEN CHARGED WITH MURDER OVER KYOGLE HOUSE FIRE
A 17-year-old has been charged with murder following investigations into a house fire at Kyogle last week.
Emergency services were called to a rural property in Smiths Creek on Sunday August 16, following reports a property was well alight.
Crews from the Rural Fire Service attended and took several hours to extinguish the blaze.
Officers from Richmond Police District attended and established a crime scene after the body of a 64-year-old man was located inside.
Detectives from Richmond Police District established Strike Force Kumulla to investigate the circumstances surrounding the cause of the blaze.
On Friday, detectives arrested a 17-year-old boy at a home in Kyogle.
He was taken to Casino Police Station where he was charged with murder, improperly interfere with a corpse and malicious damage by fire.
He was refused bail and will appear in Parramatta children’s court today.