Felicity Kay Torrens key witness in trial against Larkin Dwayne Moffatt in alleged Ipswich shooting

A witness has broken down as she recalled the moments surrounding her former partner being shot after armed men allegedly stormed their home west of Brisbane.

Key witness Felicity Torrens, at Brisbane District and Supreme Court – on Friday 16th May 2025 – Photo Steve Pohlner

A witness has broken down as she recalled the moments surrounding her partner being shot after armed men allegedly stormed their Ipswich home over a drug deal gone wrong.

Felicity Kay Torrens took the stand in the trial against Larkin Dwayne Moffatt who allegedly shot her partner at the time Chris Anderson.

Moffatt has pleaded not guilty to murdering Mr Anderson who had allegedly chased the defendant and three of his friends from his Gailes home on July 10 2021.

Ms Torrens told Brisbane’s Supreme Court that she had sold a half ball of ice to a woman who it turned out was going halves with Shaun Jason Birt.

The court has heard Birt was unhappy with the weight of the drug provided and attended Ms Torrens home on the day in question with Moffatt, the defendant’s brother Markiss Graham Moffatt-Cleary and Aidan Eden Pascoe.

On arrival at the Old Logan Rd residence the men briefly spoke to Mr Anderson who went inside to fetch Ms Torrens, the court has heard.

Earlier in the day Ms Torrens said she had put their two year old son Christopher to sleep in his bedroom but after he woke up they put him in her bed.

She said she went to the front door to speak to the men.

“Shaun gave some speech as to why he was there, and I did him wrong or something, and then we offered on the spot basically to compensate for it,” Ms Torrens told the jury on Friday.

“They said ‘no we want it all’.”

The court heard the men allegedly broke through the front door so Ms Torrens said she grabbed a metal baseball bat.

She said of the alleged intruders all of them had guns except for Birt however the court has previously heard only Pascoe pulled out a gun in the home.

“I’m in disbelief … I did something stupid I told them to shoot me,” Ms Torrens continued.

“And the fat guy shot at me and it’s just missed me and hit the wall beside me.”

Felicity Kay Torrens is giving evidence at the trial of Larkin Moffatt who is accused of murdering her partner Chris Anderson at Gailes. Picture: Patrick Woods.

The Crown has said this was Pascoe who was armed with a shortened .410 shotgun.

The blast hit the loungeroom wall causing a hole that penetrated to the other side of the wall in their son’s bedroom.

Even though the child wasn’t in there at the time the court has heard this infuriated Mr Anderson who ultimately chased the men out of the property with a shovel.

In the meantime Ms Torrens has jumped out of a window with her son and rushed him to a neighbour across the road, she said.

She did not see Mr Anderson get shot, which the crown alleged was committed by Moffatt sitting in the front passenger seat of the group’s car as Mr Anderson hit some of the men and their Commodore with his shovel.

When she returned to the home Ms Torrens said Mr Anderson was sitting on the sofa.

“He wasn’t moving or anything and I was panicked,” she said.

“I said baby ‘what are you doing’.

“He kind of just made a noise.

At this point in her evidence Ms Torrens began crying.

Ms Torrens was grilled under cross-examination for initially “lying” to police by claiming she was only the middleman in the drug deal and that it involved cannabis rather than methamphetamines.

“You knew...you shouldn’t be lying to police in a statement didn’t you,” Ms Trafford-Walker asked the witness.

“I guess yeah but I corrected it,” Ms Torrens responded.

Ms Torrens agreed that while Mr Anderson was lying unconscious on the front patio she was getting a friend to take drug paraphernalia out of the house and had moved a TV against a wall to hide the shotgun blast.

“You did that to protect yourself because you’d been involved in a drug deal didn’t you,” Ms Trafford-Walker asked.

“To protect my family, to keep my family together, yes I did,” the witness responded.

Ms Torrens told the court she wasn’t aware of the full extent of Mr Anderson’s injuries at the time and thought he was knocked out after taking “a big hit” as told by a friend.

The jury was sent home until Monday while the parties discussed a legal issue.

She and a friend helped take him to the front patio where he collapsed on the ground and was declared dead a short time late.

The court has heard a .22 bullet hit Mr Anderson in the chest puncturing his heart in two places.

Barrister Victoria Trafford-Walker, representing Moffatt who has also pleaded not guilty to enter dwelling with intent whilst armed in company, is expected to cross examine Ms Torrens this afternoon. .

Originally published as Felicity Kay Torrens key witness in trial against Larkin Dwayne Moffatt in alleged Ipswich shooting