Three Teens Face Trial For NSW Grindr Murder

starobserver.com.au:

Three 17-year-old boys are set to face trial later this year in News South Wales for the murder of a 56-year-old Canberra man Peter Keeley.

Keeley was a real estate agent, an auctioneer and past president of West Belconnen Junior Rugby League Football Club. Keeley’s battered body was found on February 2 last year in bushland at Broulee, around 20 kilometres south of Batemans Bay, NSW.

According to the NSW police, one of the teenagers had communicated with Keeley on the gay dating app Grindr, before they met and allegedly brutally murdered him.

The accused cannot be identified because of their ages. Police had said they were exploring all possible motives for the murder, including if it was a “gay hate crime”The case of the third teenager is.