FORENSIC medical experts and police detectives have been called as witnesses in a murder hearing over the 2018 stabbing death of young Tamworth mother Teah Luckwell.
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Jesse Leigh Green is charged with murdering 22-year-old Ms Luckwell inside the kitchen of her South Tamworth unit in March 2018.
His NSW Supreme Court special murder hearing continued in Tamworth on Thursday.
Justice Stephen Campbell was sitting virtually from Sydney due to COVID-19 lockdown.
Forensic psychiatrists Dr Stephen Allnutt and Dr Gerald Chew gave expert medical evidence via video link.
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Both had prepared reports and were questioned by Crown prosecutor Brian Costello about a series of events around the time of Ms Luckwell's death.
The Crown claims Ms Luckwell died in the early hours of March 28, 2018.
They included the incident Mr Costello described as Ms Luckwell being "violently stabbed three times", as well as an alleged break and enter in Oxley Vale and an incident where a sharp object was allegedly stabbed into a door at a Robert Street home near Ms Luckwell's unit.
Two police detectives from Tamworth also gave evidence in court on Thursday as part of the hearing.
Green is facing charges of murdering his former neighbour, break and enter and using an offensive weapon.
He has denied the allegations.
Ms Luckwell was found in a pool of blood just inside the front door of her Homes North social housing flat on Robert Street on March 28, 2018, hours after she is thought to have died.
The special hearing will continue with the Crown case on Friday.
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