A 27-year-old man charged with murder earlier this week in Launceston will be back in court next month.
Newnham man William Craig Simmons didn’t enter a plea to a murder charge during a brief appearance in the Launceston Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
A Mowbray man in his 40s was taken to the Launceston General Hospital with stab injuries sustained in an altercation in Tompson’s Lane but didn’t survive.
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Police are now investigating the relationship between the two but say they were known to each other.
Police say they’re looking into whether it is a case of family violence.
A woman and three teenagers were also inside the home at the time.
