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Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n Save this article for later<\/p>\n Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.<\/p>\n Got it<\/p>\n AAA<\/p>\n A Western Victorian man is accused of a brutal murder that spanned multiple crime scenes, with the elderly victim found with dozens of injuries, a court has been told.<\/p>\n Robert Beck has been charged with murder after the body of a man in his 80s was found on Monday morning off the Henty Highway at Jung, near Horsham in the state\u2019s north-west.<\/p>\n The 49-year-old Minyip man was arrested after a two-and-half-hour stand-off with police while armed with a knife at Horsham on Monday evening, police say.<\/p>\n Beck faced Horsham Magistrates\u2019 Court for a brief administrative hearing on Wednesday morning after being charged overnight.<\/p>\n A prosecutor told Magistrate Timothy Hoare there were multiple crime scenes that covered an \u201cextensive geographical range\u201d, with police needing to speak to witnesses and find CCTV footage.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The deceased sustained \u201capproximately 24 injuries\u201d, the prosecutor told the court.<\/p>\n Large numbers of phone downloads, DNA and other forensic exhibits needed to be examined, she added.<\/p>\n Defence lawyer Gemma Ross-McGlynn said her client had schizophrenia, bipolar and borderline personality disorder and had to be assessed for medication.<\/p>\n He also identified as Aboriginal, she told the court.<\/p>\n The accused will return to court on a separate issue next week, but is expected to face the Supreme Court in July.<\/p>\n Start the day with a summary of the day\u2019s most important and interesting stories, analysis and insights. Sign up for our Morning Edition newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n Save<\/p>\n You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n![\"Victoria](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/85c3fc913fcdbdc31af1602314ba0dbaa47094db.jpeg\")
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Caroline Schelle<\/a> is an education reporter, and joined The Age in 2022. She previously covered courts at AAP.Connect via X<\/a> or email<\/a>.From our partners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 18, 2026 \u2014 5:28pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-549158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}