Emerald Wardle murder: Jordan Brodie Miller offers plea to manslaughter, will face trial

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Updated June 9 2021 - 4:51pm, first published 3:30pm
TRAGEDY: Emerald Wardle was allegedly murdered at a home at Metford in June, 2020. Her boyfriend, Jordan Brodie Miller, 20, was on Wednesday committed for trial on a charge of murder.
TRAGEDY: Emerald Wardle was allegedly murdered at a home at Metford in June, 2020. Her boyfriend, Jordan Brodie Miller, 20, was on Wednesday committed for trial on a charge of murder.

A YOUNG man accused of murdering his 18-year-old girlfriend Emerald Wardle at Metford in June last year before sensationally confessing in court the next day will face a trial in the NSW Supreme Court.

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Sam Rigney

Court Reporter

Sam began his Newcastle Herald career as a night police reporter in 2011. He is an experienced court reporter who has won two national court reporting awards, including the Kennedy Award for Outstanding Court Reporting for his coverage of the Hunter's worst serial rapist. Before working at the Herald, Sam was a sports journalist with the Maitland Mercury where he won awards for his coverage of the Newcastle Rugby League salary cap scandal. Sam is a Novocastrian born-and-bred.

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