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Cairns rape trial judge retires to consider verdict

ABC News Australia - Top Stories · 21 October 2026 at 4:02 pm

A judge has retired to consider whether a teenager who held a man at knifepoint during a home invasion in Cairns is guilty of raping the man's partner.

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