An elderly man accused of shooting a retirement strata manager during a body corporate meeting allegedly told a resident the previous day not to attend saying, “I prefer no females to be there because I don’t know what is going to happen,” a district court heard. Romanian immigrant Ille Istudor was 85 when he is accused of shooting strata manager Stephen Smith through the neck with a shortened .22 calibre rifle in front of horrified residents during a meeting at their Lakemba unit block on April 24, 2014. Downing District Court Judge Andrew Haesler found that Istudor was not mentally fit to enter a plea to a charge of shooting with intent to murder or with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
