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Posted: 2017-06-27 08:14:32

Updated June 27, 2017 18:54:08

Rick Thorburn has been committed to stand trial for the murder of his foster daughter Tiahleigh Palmer.

Thorburn is accused of killing the 12-year-old Queensland schoolgirl, whose decomposing body was discovered on the banks of a northern Gold Coast river six days after she went missing in October 2015.

The 57-year-old successfully applied for a registry committal application at Beenleigh Magistrates Court on the murder charge on Tuesday.

He was also committed to stand trial on a count of interfering with a corpse.

Thorburn was arrested and charged in September last year, almost a year after Tiahleigh's body was found on the banks of the Pimpama River.

No further date for his matter has been fixed yet.

AAP

Topics: courts-and-trials, family-and-children, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, crime, qld, brisbane-4000, beenleigh-4207

First posted June 27, 2017 18:08:52

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