Woodchipper murder trial: Sharon Graham believed ex-lover Bruce Saunders’ death was an ‘accident’

The barrister for a woman accused of scheduling her ex-partner’s murder by using a woodchipper has instructed a Queensland jury she imagined his dying was an accident.

Sharon Graham, 62, is on demo in the Brisbane Supreme Court docket soon after pleading not responsible to the murder of Bruce James Saunders, 53, at a residence near Gympie on November 12, 2017.

Crown prosecutor Greg Cummings instructed the jury in his opening responses that Graham was an hour’s push away from the scene when Mr Saunders was intentionally killed but before that working day she experienced procured her new lover, Gregory Lee Roser, to have out the murder.

Sharon Graham, 62 (left) is accused of setting up the murder of her ex-lover Bruce James Saunders, 53. Graham’s attorney told Brisbane Supreme Court his consumer thought Mr Saunders’ dying was the consequence of an incident

Mr Cummings explained to the jurors they would listen to from Peter John Koenig, who would explain to them he was the only particular person to see Roser strike Mr Saunders from behind with a 40-millimetre metal pipe and then continuously strike the victim’s head whilst he was on the ground.

Mr Cummings said Mr Koenig would say he joined Roser in carrying Mr Saunders’ lifeless entire body to a significant woodchipper and partially reduce his human body into the equipment to make it glance like he experienced a fatal accident though clearing trees to assistance a recent widow market her land.

Bruce James Saunders, 53, (pictured) was killed on the home, with his human body positioned in a woodchipper to make it glance like as even though he fell into the machinery while clearing trees

‘Ultimately it comes down to (Graham) acquiring manipulative regulate more than three folks and as a product of that she stood to attain really sizeable amounts (of funds) that she desperately needed from Mr Saunders,’ Mr Cummings stated.

Mr Cummings alleged Graham, who was residing on a incapacity guidance pension of just above $800 for each fortnight, murdered Mr Saunders to inherit his house, motor vehicle, $125,000 in superannuation and $750,000 in life insurance coverage.

In quick opening reviews for the defence on Thursday, Graham’s barrister Peter Richards said it was not in dispute that his shopper was the beneficiary of Mr Saunders’ will and insurance plan procedures.

‘Sharon Graham did not request, counsel or procure either Mr Roser or Mr Koenig to eliminate Mr Saunders,’ Mr Richards stated.

‘As considerably as Sharon Graham observed at the time, Mr Saunders died as a consequence of an accident and … just one of the principal issues in this demo is the reliability and reliability of Peter John Koenig.’

The trial is thanks to operate for an additional 16 hearing times just before Justice Peter Callaghan.

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