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By Meagan Dillon

Teenager denies killing Kilburn grandmother

Police outside a home at Kilburn where a 61-year-old woman was fatally stabbed.

A teenager has pleaded not guilty to the murder of a 61-year-old woman in Adelaide's inner north in December last year.

Cynthia Rigney, 19, appeared via video link in the Adelaide Magistrates Court today, where she entered her plea of not guilty to the murder in Kilburn.

It is the first time Ms Rigney, of Kilburn, can be identified after Chief Magistrate Judge Mary-Louise Hribal lifted a suppression order on her identity.

Ms Rigney will be arraigned in the Supreme Court in February 2020 before she faces trial.

She was arrested soon after the alleged murder.

In December, a court heard the victim had been stabbed 30 to 40 times with a knife and was found with bloodstains on her clothes.

Police alleged CCTV footage captured the accused arriving at the address and leaving a short time later.

The victim had lived in the area with her husband for "quite some time" and was well known in the local community, police said.

Police seized a number of knives from the scene, including a large silver knife, which was discovered behind a sofa.

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