Weeks earlier than Bruce Saunders was discovered useless in a woodchipper, Sharon Graham had a premonition a few horrible accident, a Brisbane court docket has been instructed.
Graham, 61, and Gregory Lee Roser, 63, are on trial having pleaded not responsible to homicide after the 54-year-old Saunders died when engaged on a property north of Brisbane in November 2017.
Graham is accused of asking Roser and one other man, Peter Koenig, to kill Saunders and make it seem like an accident to say her ex-partner’s $750,000 life insurance coverage coverage.
Barry Collins, an ex-partner of Graham’s, mentioned she spoke a few premonition “three or so weeks” earlier than he first heard about Saunders’ dying on the information.
“She mentioned I've had a premonition, there's going to be a horrible accident that somebody goes to get damage,” he instructed the Brisbane supreme court docket on Monday.
When pressed on what Graham mentioned concerning the premonition, Collins mentioned: “They're going to be clearing a block, clearing some land and there's going to be an accident and somebody goes to get damage.”
The jury was beforehand proven police video and footage of Saunders’ legs protruding from a woodchipper on the Goomboorian property close to Gympie after he had been clearing bushes with Roser and Koenig.
Weeks after the dying, Collins mentioned Graham had a dialog with him about what had occurred to Saunders. He mentioned Graham didn’t go into element however instructed him it was an accident.
Graham has been accused of being in a “love quadrangle” with Roser, Koenig and Saunders – plotting the Saunders’ homicide for months.
Collins mentioned Koenig had been a long-term worker for his transport enterprise.
Throughout their de facto relationship, Collins moved from South Australia to Queensland with Graham, and Koenig had include them, dwelling on the identical property because the couple. He described Koenig’s relationship with Graham as “very shut”.
Earlier than relocating to Queensland, Collins mentioned he had discovered a handgun that he had forgotten he owned and gave it to Koenig however had “by no means seen it once more”.
The court docket heard a “very harassed” Roser visited a fellow resident at a caravan park north of Brisbane in July 2017 and instructed her that his girlfriend needed him to shoot and kill her associate.
Joan Balfour mentioned Roser, a caravan park neighbour, instructed her he had obtained the small handgun from his girlfriend’s “good friend”.
Balfour instructed the court docket she had by no means met the girlfriend nor knew her identify however had seen the blond lady go to Roser on the caravan park.
“He instructed me his girlfriend needed to do away with her [other] associate on the time,” she mentioned. “She needed Greg to shoot her associate … I suggested him not to try this, clearly.”
Balfour mentioned Roser revealed the gun was within the boot of his automotive after they met for lunch the following day.
She mentioned Roser had additionally instructed her that the girlfriend had supplied an tackle and instances to put in wait to shoot the associate.
“He instructed me the final time he noticed his girlfriend she despatched him to her good friend’s home and this good friend gave him a gun,” Balfour mentioned.
“I requested ‘what kind of fool provides somebody a gun?’ and he mentioned that the man who gave him the gun was in love together with his girlfriend however nothing had ever occurred.
“I simply mentioned … ‘don’t do it, it’s silly.’ Earlier than we had completed the dialog he agreed with me that it was silly and he wasn’t going to do it.”
The trial earlier than justice Martin Burns continues.
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