The teenager accused of killing Universal Store co-founder Greg Josephson has been seeing a psychiatrist while in custody, but a report on his condition is yet to be delivered to the court due to delays in the youth detention facility.
Josephson, 58, was found dead at his multimillion-dollar Brisbane home in June last year, during a Thursday-evening party attended by dozens of teenagers.
A 15-year-old boy was charged with murder as the death shocked the close-knit community of Clayfield, in Brisbane’s north.
His lawyer, Kris Jahnke, last year told the Children’s Court that material would be provided to the boy’s psychiatrist, with the pair expected to meet late last year.
Jahnke told the court on Tuesday that the psychiatrist had been retained to assess the teenager’s capacity.
“He has been meeting with my client since about November,” Jahnke said.
“I’m told that he should be in a position to provide me with the preliminary opinion by the end of April.”
Jahnke also told the court that date might not be certain, given delays in the youth detention facility.
“This is a complex matter … [the psychiatrist] has been meeting with my client on numerous occasions, but he has also experienced some delay in respect of being able to get into the youth detention centre,” Jahnke said.
The case was adjourned to May to allow time for the report to be compiled.
Josephson, who founded Universal Store in 1999 with his brother Michael, was farewelled by family and friends in July.
The pair sold the company for $100 million in 2018.
Josephson and his wife had been planning to sell their Clayfield property, worth $5 million, while shifting their focus to various business ventures on the Sunshine Coast.
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