WW2 Digger Beheaded

Mr Hutchinson served Australia as an artillery gunner in Borneo and New Guinea

from www.smh.com.au

Tuesday January 16, 2007
12 22am AEDT

Vet's beheading motive mystery
DYLAN WELCH 12:45pm

Police are still searching for a motive for the killing and beheading of 82-year-old war veteran Mark Hutchinson.
At noon today the Armidale street where Mr Hutchinson had lived in a two-storey fibro house was finally opened up after being cordoned off since the discovery of his body on Saturday.

State Emergency Service workers were cutting grass around a creek behind the house in Markham Street today so that the area could be minutely examined for clues.

Mr Hutchinson's head was severed and left lying next to his corpse, where it was discovered by a nephew who dropped in on his way home from a holiday in Queensland with his wife and one-year-old child.