A jury has found a 51-year-old man guilty of murdering his female partner after assaulting her with a sledgehammer in bushland near an Alice Springs hotel.
Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of injuries.
Jerry Robertson has been standing trial for murder in the Alice Springs Supreme Court for the past three weeks, after pleading not guilty to the charge.
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During the trial, the court heard that on July 14, 2023, after two days of heavy drinking of hand sanitiser, the couple returned to the bush cam