Peter Dupas has been charged with murder over the stabbing death of 95-year-old Kathleen Downes at a Brunswick nursing home in 1997. Dupas was charged last week with one count of murder, and will be presented in the Supreme Court in March without facing a committal hearing. Mrs Downes was stabbed three times in the neck and her throat was cut in her room at the Brunswick Lodge Aged Care Facility in the early hours of December 31, 1997. She was last seen at 12:30am when a staff member conduced a routine check of the residents, and her body was found by a second staff member at 6:20am.
