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Buoyed by days of partnership-building sessions with America's democratic allies, Joe Biden arrived in Geneva on Tuesday for the most-watched and tensest part of his first European tour as US President: talks with Russia's Vladimir Putin.

Biden is seeking to restore European ties that were strained under former President Donald Trump, who dismissed the value of NATO and other longstanding US alliances and sought out Putin and other autocrats.

Biden this week has held long days of meetings with global leaders at the Group of Seven, NATO and US-EU summits, where he secured joint communiques expressing concern over Russia and China, and on Tuesday helped preside over a breakthrough agreement easing a long-running US trade dispute with Europe.

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But Biden's Wednesday meeting with the Russian president is his most highly anticipated.

Biden has called Putin a "worthy adversary" and has said he is hoping to find areas of cooperation with the Russian president. But he's also warned that if Russia continues its cyberattacks and other aggressive acts towards the US "we will respond in kind".

According to a senior administration official granted anonymity to disclose internal discussions, Biden is hoping to find small areas of agreement with the Russian president, including potentially returning ambassadors back to Washington and Moscow. Both countries have been without a senior diplomat for months.

Biden is also looking to make progress on a new arms control agreement between the two nations, after Russia agreed to a five-year extension of the current agreement in January. And Biden plans to raise issues ranging from cyberattacks to Russia's alleged involvement in air piracy, as well as Putin's treatment of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was jailed and poisoned in an act seen as political retribution against him for speaking out against the Russian president.

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Before leaving his Brussels stop Tuesday morning, US officials announced a major breakthrough with the European Union in a 17-year trade dispute centred on rival subsidies for aircraft manufacturers.

The two sides reached terms on how much of a government subsidy each can provide for its aircraft manufacturing giant — Boeing in the United States and Airbus in the EU. The announcement came as Biden met with European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

US Trade Representative Katherine Tai told reporters that the agreement calls for a five-year suspension of the aircraft tariffs, and stressed that it was time to put aside the fight and focus on China's economic assertiveness.

"Today's announcement resolves a longstanding trade irritant in the US-Europe relationship. Instead of fighting with one of our closest allies, we are finally coming together against a common threat," Tai said. "We agreed to work together to challenge and counter China's non-market practices in this sector in specific ways that reflect our standards for fair competition."

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To be certain, the US-EU relationship faces other trade-related friction. The continent's leaders are becoming impatient that Biden has not yet addressed Trump's 2018 decision to impose import taxes on foreign steel and aluminium.

The White House on Tuesday announced the creation of a joint US-EU trade and technology council, which is tasked with coordinating standards for artificial intelligence, quantum computing and bio-technologies, as well as coordinating efforts on bolstering supply chain resilience. Biden is appointing Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Tai to co-chair the US side of the effort.

The White House said the two sides will also discuss efforts to stem climate change and launch an expert group to determine how best to reopen travel safely as the coronavirus pandemic ebbs.

The US-EU summit is also expected to include a communique later Tuesday that will address concerns about China's provocative behaviour.

That statement would follow a NATO summit communique on Monday that declared China a constant security challenge and said the Chinese are working to undermine the global rules-based order. On Sunday, the Group of Seven nations called out what it said were China's forced labor practices and other human rights violations against Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in the western Xinjiang province.

In addition to scolding China, NATO leaders in their communique on Monday took a big swipe at Russia, deploring its aggressive military activities and snap wargames near the borders of NATO countries as well as the repeated violation of the 30-nations' airspace by Russian planes.

Since taking office in January, Biden has repeatedly pressed Putin to take action to stop Russian-originated cyberattacks on companies and governments in the US and around the globe and decried the imprisonment of Navalny. Biden also has publicly aired intelligence that suggests — albeit with low to moderate confidence — that Moscow offered bounties to the Taliban to target US troops stationed in Afghanistan.

Both Biden and Putin have described the US-Russia relationship as being at an all-time low.

The Europeans are keen to set up a "high-level dialogue" on Russia with the United States to counter what they say is Moscow's drift into deeper authoritarianism and anti-Western sentiment.

At the same time, the 27-nation bloc is deeply divided in its approach to Moscow. Russia is the EU's biggest natural gas supplier, and plays a key role in international conflicts and key issues, including the Iran nuclear deal and conflicts in Syria and Libya.

The hope is that Biden's meeting with Putin might pay dividends, and no one in Brussels wants to undermine the show of international unity that has been on display at the G7 and NATO summits, according to EU officials.

But Republicans in Washington reflected no such concerns. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday accused Biden of deferring to Putin on his current trip abroad and making America weaker.

"I don't care about charming Europe and thinking you're one of them," he said. "Biden is making our adversaries stronger. Russia is stronger today under a Biden administration than he was under the past administration. China is stronger today."

Australian cow and sheep farmers, winemakers, whisky drinkers and young people looking to live overseas are the big winners from a historic free trade deal with the UK, according to new details released by Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

The in-principle deal will allow farmers to ship tens of thousands of tonnes of meat to the UK tax-free every year as soon as it comes into force and remove tariffs on almost all other Australian products, the government says.

It's designed to boost a trade relationship that was already worth more than $25 billion last year, according to the UK government, and is the country's first major trade deal since Brexit.

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"Australian producers and farmers will receive a significant boost by getting greater access to the UK market," Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Trade Minister Dan Tehan said in a statement.

"Australian consumers will benefit from cheaper products, with all tariffs eliminated within five years, and tariffs on cars, whisky, and the UK's other main exports eliminated immediately.

"The UK will liberalise Australian imports with 99 per cent of Australian goods, including Australian wine and short and medium grain milled rice, entering the UK duty-free when the agreement enters into force."

The traditional young Australian pilgrimage to London will also get easier. The working holiday visa program is set to be expanded to include anyone up to 35 and give them three years to live in the motherland, instead of the current two.

Mr Morrison also promised "provisions to support mutual recognition of qualifications and greater certainty for skilled professionals entering the UK labour market".

Similar visa relaxations apply for Brits, as well as the removal of their obligation to work on a farm for 88 days, a change that has alarm bells ringing for Nationals MPs.

"The National Party has made sure that if we are to give concessions, we need to look for other mechanisms in which to make up the shortfall, and the prime minister and Liberal Party have given us that undertaking," Minister Littleproud told 9News.

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The deal eliminates tariffs on Australian wines, swimwear and confectionery, supposedly saving British households up to £34 million ($62 million) a year.

A cap remains on tax-free imports of some meats, a concession to UK producers worried about a cheaper product with different regulations flooding the market.

But it will be phased out over 15 years.

Beef imports to the UK will be taxed beyond 35,000 tonnes in the first year, rising to 110,000 tonnes in the tenth and eventually to nothing after 15 years.

The UK has imported about 33,500 tonnes of beef from Australia since 2013, according to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.

The caps on lamb rise from 25,000 tonnes to 75,000 over 10 years before disappearing after 15 years and sugar will be tax-free after a similar eight-year transition period.

Dairy farmers don't miss out either, gaining the ability to ship 24,000 tonnes of cheese and 20,000 tonnes of other products tax-free as soon as the deal comes into force, with limits phased out over five years.

The new agreement, the final text of which is yet to be finalised, also paves the way for the UK to enter the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.

According to the UK government, Scottish drink exports to Australia, presumably mostly whisky, topped £126 million ($230 million), while the UK as a whole exported £5.4 billion ($9.9 billion) worth of services.

"Today marks a new dawn in the UK's relationship with Australia, underpinned by our shared history and common values," UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a statement issued earlier in the day.

He highlighted cheaper prices for UK cars, biscuits and ceramics sold to Australia.

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Multiple recent international arrivals into New South Wales are being told to get tested and isolate as health authorities investigate a case of possible coronavirus transmission within hotel quarantine.

NSW Health on Tuesday night confirmed a returned traveller newly diagnosed with COVID-19 had an identical viral sequence to two infected travellers staying in the room next door at the Radisson Blu quarantine hotel in Sydney.

Authorities are investigating whether the third person was exposed to the virus on a June 1 flight they shared from Doha with the infected couple, on transport to the hotel, in the hotel lobby or while in quarantine.

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"Currently, there is no evidence of further transmission," NSW Health said in a statement.

"While the investigations into the transmission continue, out of an abundance of caution, all returned travellers who were on the same floor of the Radisson Blu hotel between June 1 and June 5 and were subsequently discharged are being contacted and asked to get tested and isolate at home pending further advice from NSW Health.

"NSW Health has also asked all staff who worked on the fourth floor between June 1 and June 5 to get tested and isolate pending further advice from NSW Health."

The department said genomic sequencing showed all three travellers had identical viral sequences of the Alpha variant (B.1.1.7), which was first documented in the UK.

"The couple, who were asymptomatic, tested positive to COVID-19 on a routine day-two test on 3 June," NSW Health said.

" The other returned traveller — the secondary case — returned a negative day-two test on 3 June before subsequently developing symptoms and testing positive for COVID-19 following a test on 5 June.

"The couple and the secondary case were transferred from the Radisson Blu to the special health accommodation, where they remain, following their positive tests."

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The father and daughter of the Tamil family at the centre of a national outcry over their detention on Christmas Island have landed in Perth to be reunited with the rest of their family.

Kopika and Nades Murugappan were filmed as they disembarked a small plane which landed in Perth just before 7pm.

Dad Kopika and eldest daughter Nades have been staying in Christmas Island detention, apart from mum Priya and younger daughter Tharnicaa for nine long days after the latter pair were flown to Perth so Tharnicaa could receive emergency medical care.

Immigration Minister Alex Hawke said the family of four will be permitted to live in Perth in a community detention placement while Tharnicaa continues to be treated in the city's children's hospital.

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"In making this decision I am conscious of the compassionate factors of having children in detention for prolonged periods of time versus ongoing litigation matters, matters before the courts, matters before me as minister that will take some time for us to resolve," Mr Hawke said in a press conference this afternoon.

"In doing so this will ensure that the children in the family have access to services in the community, health support, schools and other forms of support from the government and the Australian people while the final matters are being resolved."

Mr Hawke said details of the Tamil Sri Lankan family's case is still under investigation and that the government does not want to see the people-smuggling trade resume.

"They have been found at several junctures by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, by the Federal Court, the Circuit Court, and the full Federal Court in the High Court not to be owed protection by Australia," he said.

"Their immigration status has not changed and therefore on balance I have made a decision, a compassionate decision to keep the family in the Australian community while they take further matters up with the government."

In a statement that accompanied the photos of dad and daughter boarding the plane, campaigning group Home To Bilo, which advocates for the family to return to their former home town of Biloela in Queensland, welcomed the impending reunion.

"At this stage it is unclear when Kopika and Nades will be reunited with Tharni and Priya," the group said.

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Lawyer for the family, Carina Ford, spoke just before the Immigration Minister and said Mr Hawke is still able to use his ministerial discretion.

"We would still be of the view, though, that the minister can use his power at any time. He does not need to wait until the court proceedings are finished. They are dealing with a completely separate issue," she said.

Ms Ford said the family is relieved to be reunited and to be out of Christmas Island detention.

"They would add, though, that the support they have had from the Christmas Island community has been wonderful, and they're also aware that there is this situation now that Kopica is going to have to resettle into another school.

"That's why, again, it would have been more ideal had they been sent to Bilo. But, stating that, they're looking forward to some freedom."

Priya and Nades Murugappan and their two daughters Tharnicaa and Kopika have been living in immigration detention on Christmas Island since 2019, after they were removed from their home in Biloela by Border Force officers in 2018.

Kopika and Tharnicaa were both born in Australia. Sri Lankan Tamils are considered by many to be a persecuted minority in the country.

Activists who are campaigning to return the family to Biloela, said the Immigration Minister's announcement was a welcome move.

Angela Fredericks, organiser of the group Home to Bilo, said it was for Mr Hawke and the Department of Home Affairs, not the courts, to determine the family's future in Australia.

"The Minister's power to grant visas is completely independent from the decisions of any court," Ms Fredericks said in a statement.

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"We cannot say what – or who – is preventing Minister Hawke from bringing this family home to Bilo. But it is not this court matter."

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said she welcomed the Federal Government's decision.

"The family of four will be allowed to settle in Perth.

"It's a long way from Biloela where their friends and neighbours have campaigned for many years for their freedom."

Mr Hawke told 2GB radio this morning that while he did not want to see children in detention, the Federal Government would likely oppose the family permanently settling in Australia.

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"Nobody wants to see children in detention … but the government's position on border protection has not changed. Anyone who arrives in Australia illegally by boat will not be resettled permanently," Mr Hawke said.

Tharnicaa is the youngest member of the family and last week was flown from Christmas Island to Perth for medical treatment.

She was diagnosed with sepsis after almost two weeks of feeling unwell, but campaigners say she developed pneumonia.

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Earlier, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg told Today the family would be reunited in Australia.

"They were pretty confronting images, as you say, of the young family and of course what we are seeking to do here with this announcement from the minister is to bring the family together," Mr Frydenberg said.

A growing group of Coalition backbenchers had been calling for an end to the saga, while others remain steadfast in the belief that granting the Murugappans residency will set a dangerous precedent.

Mr Hawke said he would consider "at a future date" whether to allow family members to apply for temporary protection, for which they had previously been rejected.

In Parliament this afternoon, Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese asked Acting Prime Minister Michael McCormack why the family were not allowed to go home to Biloela.

"These matters in relation to immigration are never easy," Mr McCormack replied.

"They are difficult. They are complicated.

"The Minister for Immigration has made a statement this morning to ensure that the support and that the health outcomes for the family will be there in Perth for them.

"We will continue to support the family."

Researchers in Brisbane are hoping their in-progress nasal spray could soon protect people against COVID-19.

The process so far takes the form of two sprays in the nose, meaning those who dislike needles could avoid the jab altogether.

Researchers at Brisbane's Nucleus Network are looking for 60 volunteers to trial the revolutionary vaccine.

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"Some will receive it via a more traditional route in the arm, so in a muscle in the arm, and some will receive it intra-nasally," Dr Paul Griffin of the Network told 9News.

While the other vaccines in use mostly protect against developing severe symptoms of COVID-19, doctors have specifically designed this one to prevent infection in the first place.

Pfizer or AstraZeneca both reduce the chance of infection by up to 66 per cent.

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And researchers hope this nasal spray will be even more effective.

"If we give a vaccine that generates a strong immune response, and reduces the chances of getting infected, that will help us control the pandemic," Dr Griffin said.

Those involved in the trial could earn up to $1280 for their time.

"If all goes according to plan and it proves as safe and successful as we think, it could be available in a year or two," Dr Griffin said.

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Police are combing through a rubbish tip in Melbourne's north described as an "extremely dangerous" environment in their search for missing mother Kelly "Ju" Zhang.

Ms Zhang, 33, was last seen at her Winchester Avenue home in Epping about 5.30pm on February 1 before she disappeared.

Missing Persons Squad detectives will scour the Wollert Waste Management Centre, trudging through landfill at the Bridge Inn Road site over the next four days, as part of their ongoing investigation.

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Detective Inspector Andrew Stamper said the search would be conducted through three essential phases involving mechanical and physical aspects, including the use of machinery and about 20 police members rummaging through waste.

"We are going to undertake a highly complex search out here," he said.

"Clearly it's a very complex environment in terms of a risk point of view."

Police have been able to narrow down the search of the tip to a "very specific" area through technology.

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Detective Inspector Stamper said he remained "hopeful" the tip could provide police with answers.

"We're hopeful that the search this week will move us closer to ultimately being able to find Ju and give her family even a small amount of comfort that she's been located," he said.

"This is a massive undertaking on our part. All the planning involved getting us to this point where we are today.

"We will be here until we're satisfied we've searched the areas of interest."

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Ms Zhang's parents arrived in Australia several weeks ago from China as the search for their missing daughter continues.

"We are in constant contact with the victim's family," Detective Inspector Stamper said.

"Ju's parents arrived several weeks ago from China. They refused to believe that Ju has passed away. They are in a strange country, they don't speak English.

"They are distraught. This has been an incredibly difficult few months for them, however, our investigators are as tenacious and committed as ever."

The expanded search area comes after a number of searches for the woman took place in bushland in the Heidelberg West and Alphington areas earlier this year.

At the time Ms Zhang went missing, she was believed to be wearing a pink nightgown and possibly pink slippers.

Ms Zhang's partner, Joon Seong Tan, 35, has since been charged with her murder.

Mr Tan was arrested on February 10 after police found him at Melbourne Airport.

"While we do have someone before the court, it is important that we continue to follow up all avenues in terms of Ju's current location," Detective Inspector Stamper said.

"If there is anyone out there with information about Ju's disappearance who is yet to speak to police, then I am again appealing for them to come forward and make contact with investigators."

Even though her home is a crime scene, crawling with police and forensic specialists, Natasha Beth Darcy giggles as she sits opposite two detectives.

It's less than 12 hours after the mysterious death of her farmer boyfriend Mathew Dunbar and she's now being interviewed in the living room of her estranged husband, Colin Crossman.

"You've probably seen my coffee machine," Darcy blurts out, knowing the police are scouring every nook and cranny of her kitchen.

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"Youse can give it a whirl if you like. Just press a button and a cappuccino comes out!" she says with a nervous laugh.

Detective Senior Constable Graham Goodwin struggles to maintain his composure.

It's a stranger than fiction scenario for Senior Constable Goodwin; he was one of the officers who charged Darcy back in 2009 for the attempted murder of her husband Mr Crossman, who owns the house they are now sitting in.

Darcy had set fire to their family home while Mr Crossman was sedated with a cocktail of drugs in his system. The last thing Mr Crossman remembered was devouring a meal of tacos Darcy had served him, before he woke up in the emergency department at Tamworth Hospital.

Darcy ended up pleading guilty to destroying property by fire but signed an agreed statement of facts that outlined how she had also belted Mr Crossman over the head with a hammer three days before the house fire – both violent attacks carried out shortly after she'd applied to take out life insurance on Mr Crossman. She was jailed for a minimum of nine months.

Detective Goodwin now sits with Darcy in August 2017 listening in disbelief as she claims Mr Dunbar – the partner she lived with and claimed to love – was supposedly gay.

"Mathew's gay – just to add another angle," Darcy scoffs.

"I think he had a lot of issues to do with that. Like, that was a lot of depression, was tough being a farmer, you know, being gay."

The detectives were taken aback; Darcy and her three children had been living with Mr Dunbar on his 1200-acre sheep farm "Pandora" for the past eight months and he had publicly professed his love and intention to marry Darcy.

Senior Constable Goodwin is keen to veer away from the subject, asking about Mr Dunbar's last movements, but Darcy is eager to bring up his homosexuality, planting the seeds to what will later be her only defence.

It was a defence that the trial judge, Justice Julia Lonergan, said she found "highly offensive", with Darcy's legal team trying to make out Mr Dunbar's confused sexuality had caused him to take his own life.

On Tuesday, after a two-month trial and three days of deliberations, a NSW Supreme Court jury found Darcy guilty of murdering Mr Dunbar.

Back on Mr Crossman's couch in 2017, Darcy tells police she and Mr Dunbar had been to Woolworths on August 1, 2017, the last afternoon of his life.

"Mat loves grocery shopping. That's one of the things I love about [him] … he's a great shopper," she says.

"Oh he's just so good and he can always find bargains and everything and yeah, it must be the gay in him."

Mr Dunbar had told friends Darcy had "chased him" down on a dating website in late 2014, a welcome change for a man who felt he'd always done the chasing.

Darcy told police they'd met after Mr Dunbar found her on the side of the road "walking in the rain".

But their romance was short-lived. Darcy was sent back to jail in May 2015 for stealing a former boyfriend's credit card and making up a false assault allegation against him in an attempt to get the charges dropped.

She had also breached her parole after serving time for burning down the family home while Mr Crossman was sedated.

But Darcy had already dug her claws into Mr Dunbar well before she was sent back to jail, hounding him to make her the sole beneficiary of his multi-million dollar Merino farm in the event of his death.

"Don't forget you need to change your will," she texted him in March 2015.

She persisted the following month asking him: "Can you promise to do one thing for me this week? Call solicitor for appointment to sort your will."

And six minutes later – when Mr Dunbar was yet to respond – she followed up. "OK, your silence says it all."

In May, Mr Dunbar had done what she asked.

"Rang solicitor and organised will change. I love you so much beautiful xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox".

'How to commit murder'

Almost as soon as Darcy was released on parole, she set her mind to murdering Mr Dunbar, the man who had helped to care for her three children for almost two years.

The first of her many online searches looking up hundreds of possible murder methods began in February 2017.

They began with more natural causes of death relating to poisonous spiders, mushrooms and "11 toxic plants that look like food," before progressing to "how to commit murder", "murder by injection" and "99 undetectable poisons".

About this time Mr Dunbar was becoming increasingly depressed about the state of their relationship. Nothing had been the same since Darcy and her three children had moved onto his property.

Psychiatrist Dr Clive Stanton believes Darcy was emotionally manipulating Mr Dunbar, "gaslighting" him with "cruel comments" and goading him to take his own life.

She once asked him "if the rafters in the shed were high enough for him to hang himself".

Darcy had suggested they sleep in separate rooms and was spending an increasing amount of time with Mr Crossman.

On the afternoon of June 13 – six weeks before the murder – Darcy and Mr Dunbar had a heated argument over a loan he'd given to an ex-girlfriend.

He hastily took a gun from the sheds on his farm and sent Darcy a text, threatening never to return.

Darcy did nothing, later texting him to ask him to bring food home for dinner.

Mr Dunbar's closest friend Lance Partridge convinced him to hand his gun over to police.

Her "callous and nasty" response to his threat of suicide showed how little she cared for him, Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield told the NSW Supreme Court jury in his closing address in June.

"Do you want to search the property to see I haven't buried him somewhere?" Darcy joked to officers who had been called out to Pandora in response to Mr Dunbar's threats.

"Mathew can be an attention seeker and I just thought he was having one of his poofter hissy fits."

There are many who believe Mr Dunbar's threat of suicide laid the groundwork for Darcy's plan.

As he recovered in a mental health facility in Tamworth, Darcy turned her mind to researching the best methods of suicide and conducted numerous searches about acepromazine, a type of sedative for rams.

On June 19, 2017, Darcy tried to source ram sedatives from three different vets without success. Walcha vet Dr Rachel Greig thought Darcy's request was so odd she phoned Mr Dunbar to ask whether he needed the strong sedative.

When he told her he did not, Dr Grieg was so disturbed she rang local police and made a statement about Darcy's attempt to purchase a drug she had no use for.

"I was very concerned. I couldn't think of any reason that she would have asked for it that was a legal reason," she told the NSW Supreme Court during her evidence.

The town of Walcha – and all who knew and loved Mr Dunbar – were certain Darcy had taken advantage of his generous nature and his vulnerable yearning for a family of his own.

Local police had even set up a strike force looking into ways Darcy might be attempting to murder Mr Dunbar well before he was eventually murdered.

While Darcy showed no emotion and looked down as the foreman said she was "guilty" in court two of the Darlinghurst court complex on Tuesday, Mr Dunbar's family and friends felt a mix of emotions.

His mother Janet Dunbar said she was relieved.

"Like I have always said, nothing will ever bring my son back but I am glad the jury reached the right verdict," she said after the verdict.

"If I could only have him back for five minutes, I'd say 'Mathew, I never stopped loving you'," she said.

"Even though we were estranged I still loved him."

Darcy is expected to face a sentencing hearing in October.

Readers seeking support can contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or beyond blue on 1300 22 4636.

Suicide Call Back Service 1300 659 467.

MensLine Australia 1300 78 99 78.

National Domestic Violence Service: 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732).

If you are in immediate danger call Triple Zero (000).

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