Harriet Wran pleads guilty to robbery after murder charge dropped

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/06/harriet-wran-pleads-guilty-to-robbery-after-charge-dropped

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The crown has dropped a murder charge against Harriet Wran, the youngest daughter of former New South Wales premier Neville Wran, over the death of Redfern drug dealer Daniel McNulty.

Wran was set to face a judge-alone trial in the NSW supreme court this week before Justice Ian Harrison.

But as she was arraigned before a packed courtroom in Sydney on Wednesday, it became clear the 28-year-old would no longer be prosecuted in relation to allegations that she murdered McNulty as part of a joint criminal enterprise in August 2014.

Instead she was indicted on a charge of robbing Brett Fitzgerald of $650 at Redfern on August 10 that year, and in a clear voice uttered the word: “Guilty.”

She has also pleaded guilty to a charge of harbouring, maintaining or assisting her then-boyfriend Michael Lee, knowing that he had allegedly murdered McNulty.