The person who pulled the set off and fatally shot a mom of two in a theft gone fallacious on a rural property in Brisbane’s south has been discovered responsible of manslaughter.
After a six-day Brisbane Supreme Courtroom trial, 43-year-old Stafford Anthony Emmerson was convicted.
Stafford Anthony Emmerson.Credit score:Queensland Police Service
The sufferer, 40-year-old Megan Kirley, died at a semi-rural property on Wembley Highway in Karawatha, on Brisbane’s southern outskirts, about 3am on February 9, 2019.
5 folks have been concerned.
Cameron Lindsay Witoko, 31, Kobi Daniel Oram, 25, and Emma Louise Hinds, 45, every obtained nine-year sentences for manslaughter.
Geoffrey Dale Granz Glenn, 35, was attributable to stand trial with Emmerson, however he pleaded responsible to manslaughter final month and will likely be sentenced on August 18.
Within the Emmerson trial, crown prosecutor Dejana Kovac instructed the court docket Kirley lived along with her companion, Pieter Pickering, in a transport container on the Karawatha property.
On the time, solely one of many two metallic doorways on the container may open. There was no different entry. The encompassing property was coated in thick bushland.
Kovac stated earlier that night time, the group of 5 had damaged into two different places and stolen cash to purchase medicine. Police alleged the group meant to steal money from the transport container.
