MURDER-ACCUSED Jesse Leigh Green will have his mental fitness to stand trial assessed in The Supreme Court.
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Green is charged with the stabbing murder of young mother Teah Rose Luckwell in her South Tamworth unit last year.
He was due to be arraigned in Sydney's Supreme Court on Friday, but instead, Green's defence solicitor had the case referred for a Mental Health Fitness Enquiry in December.
The fitness hearing into Green's capacity to stand trial is expected to take two hours.
Earlier this year a lawyer for Green argued he was 'unfit' to plead in Tamworth Local Court.
The accused has been in prison since his arrest in April last year, charged with aggravated breaking and entering, having goods suspected stolen, using an offensive weapon to commit an indictable offence, larceny, stalking and intimidating, and murder.
Police arrested Green after investigations into the death of the 22-year-old woman.
A neighbour found Ms Luckwell's body in her Robert Street apartment and reported it to police.
Police claim Green knew Luckwell, and attacked and murdered her in her home at about 9:30pm on March 28, 2018.
No details on exactly how Ms Luckwell died have been publicly released by police, but Green is the only person charged in connection with her murder.
Detectives have accused Green of breaking into an Ernst Street house in Oxley Vale between 8pm and 11pm on March 27 and stealing from the house while people were inside.
Police allege Green had a 40cm knife that he used to intimidate a woman between 4.10am and 4.30am on March 28, about the same time as the alleged murder.
He's accused of then attempting to break into the same woman's property in Robert Street while armed with the knife.
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Green faces charges of larceny of an Apple iPad worth $500 between 8am and 8.20am on March 28 in South Tamworth, as well as larceny of two suitcases of clothing and laptops between 5.30pm and 5.35pm at Hornsby in Sydney.
No evidence of Green's DNA has been uncovered by forensics at the slain mother's home. The matter was adjourned in Sydney Supreme Court by Judge Richard Button until December 9.