Trial started Monday for Erica Dotson of West Melbourne, who walked into a courtroom as attorneys began to pick a jury. She faces the death penalty for the death of her son in 2021.

A 28-year-old man has faced court today charged with murder, after a body was found in a park south of Brisbane last week.

It was an act of madness. Friends told him so. So did anxious family members. But George Coppin was not easily swayed.