Wood found guilty of model's murder
By court reporter Jamelle Wells
A Supreme Court jury has found Gordon Wood guilty of the murder of Sydney model Caroline Byrne.
The jury of seven women and five men has taken six days to find Wood guilty of murdering the 24-year-old, whose body was found head-first at the base of The Gap cliff, in Sydney's east, in 1995.
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