star accused of murdering a baby girl will no longer have to travel to a police station in country NSW after telling a court he is battling cancer and faces abuse from locals in town.
The X Factor star Mitchell Callaway, left, is accused of murdering a baby girl in 2018; he was arrested last year, top right; police search a property in Binnaway.The girl died in Coonabarabran Hospital, where staff called in NSW Police detectives. His solicitor, Stephen Dickens, appeared in the NSW Supreme Court seeking permission for Callaway to report to police over the phone for three days each week.“There is evidence has been subjected to some abuse while going daily to town to comply with the current reporting,” Justice Tim Faulkner SC said on Friday.