The jury in Justin Stein's murder trial will be taken to his family's multimillion-dollar Blue Mountains property where nine-year-old Charlise Mutten was allegedly shot dead.
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Stein, 32, pleaded not guilty to the murder in the NSW Supreme Court on Friday, with the trial set to take place in May 2024.
Charlise, the daughter of Stein's then-fiancee, was allegedly shot on the property days before she was reported missing on January 14 last year.
A five-day search of bushland ended after her body was found in a barrel that had been dumped near the Colo River northwest of Sydney.
Police later said an autopsy found she had died of a gunshot wound.
The jury in next year's trial will spend two days visiting the property and the Colo River location, Stein's lawyer Susan Davenport SC said.
"I have been up to the house in Mount Wilson, it's not all that difficult and has a little stretch of unsealed road but it is mostly sealed," she told Justice Elizabeth Wilson on Friday.
"That's at least three hours each way, and the Colo River is on the Hawkesbury so that'll be a separate excursion."
Stein is also facing several other charges, including two counts of possessing child abuse material in the District Court and one charge of break and enter in the Local Court.
He will remain in custody until his trial at Parramatta court next year.
Australian Associated Press
