‘Picture Boy’ for re-trial over Victoria murders

Carl Andrews

-after hung jury

By Mandy Thompson

Cyon ‘Picture Boy’ Collier will have to face a new trial for the murders of two Victoria brothers, after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict on his guilt yesterday.

After over six hours of deliberation, the 12-member jury reported to Justice Diana Insanally in the High Court that eight of them had found the accused guilty, while four found him to be not guilty.

Collier will have to face a re-trial in the next assizes.

The jurors had initially returned to the