Breaking: Pair found guilty of killing elderly man during meth-addled burglary

Pair found guilty of killing Greenbushes man Raymond Smith during home burglary Wed 3 Jun 2026 at 1:36pm Two men have been found guilty of killing an elderly man in his own home in Western Australia's South West during a meth-addled burglary for drugs. Raymond Smith, 68, died during a home invasion in the town of Greenbushes, about 240 kilometres south of Perth, in December, 2023. At a Supreme Court trial, James Terence Hunt, 33, has been found guilty of Mr Smith's murder, and Paul Douglas May, 43, guilty of his manslaughter. Mr Smith lived alone in his Greenbushes home, where he grew marijuana which, the trial heard, was a reason he was targeted for burglary by Hunt, May and a third man, Kevin Potter. The trio were methylamphetamine users and had injected drugs before the burglary. Loading