Stephen Staff spent five hours in the home of Matthew Davis after bashing the frail 31-year-old to death in an attempt to conceal the motive behind his killing, prosecutors allege.
Staff is facing a murder trial which began in the NSW Supreme Court at Wollongong on Monday.
The court heard Mr Davis suffered serious facial injuries and choking, some combination of which caused his death on August 21, 2021 at his Lake Illawarra home.
Mr Davis’ mother told the court her son was in very frail health at the time of his death, suffering from chronic asthma among other serious conditions, making him “too sickly to work”.
CCTV footage viewed by the court showed three men heading in the direction of Davis’ house that night and just two of the m…
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