Jefferson Lewis, the man accused of murdering five-year-old Kumanjayi Little Baby near a town camp on the outskirts of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory last week, has been excused from his first court appearance. Lewis, 47, was expected to appear in the Alice Springs local court via video link on Tuesday morning, charged with murder and two other charges that cannot be published for legal reasons. Instead, he was excused from appearing the request of his lawyer, Mitchell Donaldson from Legal Aid NT. Donaldson did not apply for bail for his client and asked for Lewis to be excused from the next hearing, which was granted. In court, Judge Anthony Hopkins began the hearing by acknowledging Little Baby’s family. “I will just begin by acknowledging the deep loss of Kumanjayi Little Baby, and of the family’s call for justice to take its course in this time of deep sorry,” he said.…