A Watson man charged with the stabbing murder of his old school friend argued with the victim about money and repeatedly tried to contact him in the days before the killing, police say.
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Police have also alleged there is strong DNA evidence linking him to the crime.
His DNA was found at the murder scene, while Nicholas Sofer-Schreiber's hair was found at a campsite, where knives were also discovered, court documents say.
A police statement of facts, tendered on Thursday at Christopher David Navin’s committal on a charge of murder, details the alleged events before and after the Boxing Day stabbing.
Navin, 28, maintained pleas of not guilty when he appeared in the ACT Magistrates Court.
The magistrate, Beth Campbell, committed Navin to stand trial in the ACT Supreme Court over the stabbing death of Mr Sofer-Schreiber, 27, in Lyneham, on December 26.
Mr Sofer-Schreiber – an avid music fan affectionately known as the Ginger Ninja – died of stab wounds from two knives to the back, left side, and neck.
He was discovered in his Hall Street unit by friends on December 28.
Navin was arrested and charged in February after a seven-week investigation, which included a police raid on a property in northern NSW.
According to court documents, Navin had been Mr Sofer-Schreiber’s tenant until March 2013, but the pair had fallen out over rent money and damage to the property.
Navin had attempted to contact the deceased via text and phone – his messages were never returned – in the weeks leading up to the murder.
They spoke at the George Harcourt Inn, Nicholls, on Christmas Eve, but Mr Sofer-Schreiber then ignored three phone calls from Navin on Christmas Day and another on Boxing Day.
Police first contacted Navin at the property near Grafton on January 2.
They allegedly seized a pair of boots that matched bloody footprints found at the murder scene.
Raids of the property over the following weeks also allegedly uncovered two knives that had been burnt and thrown in a dam, a car floor mat that had been burnt, and a scrubbing brush, which police say had a chest hair belonging to the victim lodged in the bristles.
Police say the accused’s DNA had also been found on a light switch in Mr Sofer-Schreiber’s kitchen.
In court on Thursday, Navin’s lawyer, Peter Woodhouse, asked the court to commit his client to the higher court for trial.
Meanwhile, a second Canberra man accused of murder is expected to be committed for trial next month.
Danny Klobucar, 25, is alleged to have bashed Canberra grandfather Miodrag Gajic to death in his Phillip home on New Year's Day.
He has pleaded not guilty.
Mr Gajic was discovered dead on his floor with head injuries when friends visited his Mansfield Place unit about 2pm.
The accused was arrested on the night of the murder at the Lighthouse pub in Belconnen in relation to a string of other offences.
He has been in custody since his arrest and was charged with Mr Gajic's murder in March, following a lengthy homicide investigation by ACT Policing.
Klobucar's lawyer, Craig Lynch, indicated he would support an application to commit his client to the Supreme Court once his office had received a forensic report.
Klobucar is due to face the Magistrates Court again in September.