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A FORMER Byron Bay schoolgirl accused of attempted murder has been committed to stand trial.
Jessica Honey Fallon, 22, will be arraigned next month for the attempted murder and grievous bodily harm of Michael Martin Snr and Edmund Manning during an alleged home invasion of Martin’s Murwillumbah home in April 2014.
She has been refused bail over the offences, which her lawyer argued was unjustified.
Jessica’s solicitor, Tamryn Beveridge, argued the long delay before a trial – not expected until late 2017 – was “entirely unjustifiable”, and her client was “looking at a delay of two and a half years in custody without being found guilty of any offence”.
“In my submission this is a weak Crown case,” Ms Beveridge told the court, before picking holes in the police investigation that implicated Fallon.
On at least three occasions she said investigating officers had “fed the applicant information that she later adopted”.