Murderer Angelika Gavare, who dismembered her victim, faces SA court charged with prison assault

SHE is infamous for killing and dismembering a pensioner out of pure greed — now Angelika Gavare has been charged with committing another crime while serving her life sentence.

A NOTORIOUS murderer who killed and dismembered a pensioner out of pure greed has been charged with committing a jailhouse assault while serving her life sentence.

Angelika Gavare, who killed Vonne McGlynn in December 2008, was scheduled to face the Holden Hill Magistrates Court today on one basic count of committing an assault.

The mother of two is serving a minimum 32-year term, in the Adelaide Women’s Prison, for her crime.

Documents filed with the court allege Gavare assaulted another person inside the prison, at Northfield, on May 3 last year.

However, issues surrounding the courts’ system of video links with the state’s prisons prevented Gavare from appearing today.

Magistrate Joanne Tracey was told the women’s prison’s “video suite” was occupied by another inmate, who was facing the District Court, and would not be available for some time.

Ms Tracey adjourned Gavare’s case to a pre-trial conference in April.

Gavare, 39, was found guilty after a trial of murdering Ms McGlynn, 82, inside the pensioner’s Reynella home on or about December 3, 2008.

Her crime was one of the most bizarre in South Australian criminal history and, to this day, Ms McGlynn’s head has not been recovered.

The trial heard Gavare, a Latvian immigrant, thought she could make a better life for herself and her daughters by selling Ms McGlynn’s home and keeping the profits.

After murdering the pensioner, Gavare callously scattered her body parts around a suburban creek, began renovating the house and tried to empty her bank accounts.

Her behaviour at trial was just as odd — Gavare claimed her ex-boyfriend had killed Ms McGlynn in a hit-run and she had taken it as a chance to claim the woman’s property.

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When videotape of her police interview was played in court, Gavare watched with rapt attention and even laughed aloud at the jokes she had told detectives.

Gavare was jailed for life with a 32-year non-parole period, and then prosecuted for stealing from a newsagency and defrauding another pensioner.