SA prosecutors outline case against alleged wheelie bin love triangle conspiracy murderer Sheree May Glastonbury in court

Prosecutors have outlined in court specific harrowing details of their case against an alleged love triangle murderer, including claims she chopped up the victim with a hacksaw.

Sheree May Glastonbury, left, is charged with the murder of Geoffrey McLean, right. Picture: 7NEWS

The alleged wheelie bin love triangle murderer killed her victim with insulin and dismembered his corpse with a hacksaw after telling her sister “I’m over the c**t, why won’t he just die”, a court has heard.

The Adelaide Magistrates Court has also heard allegations Sheree May Glastonbury is a meth user who confessed her involvement in Geoffrey McLean’s death to several people – while insisting she is “not stupid”.

On Tuesday, prosecutors outlined their extensive case against Ms Glastonbury – who wants to be released on bail – for the first time, alleging she orchestrated a “conspiracy” by:

ARRANGING for her two other lovers to repeatedly assault, and unsuccessfully attempt to murder, Mr McLean prior to taking matters into her own hands.

USING a stolen wheelie bin and a rental truck to dispose of his body and cleaning products to remove his bloodstains from her carport’s concrete floor.

SENDING hundreds of text messages to her alleged co-conspirators, one of whom she deemed “stupid” because his acid-throwing attack “went nowhere near” Mr McLean.

REFUSING to return the hire truck used to dump Mr McLean’s body, prompting her co-accused to call her asking “hey murderer, where’s the truck?”.

GIVING prison inmates disgusting descriptions of Mr McLean’s corpse and claiming she “is f***ed” if police find the mobile phone of one of her lovers.

THREATENING violence against her current lover and denouncing her mother as a “spastic c**t” who is “inbred” and “f***ing slagging me off”.

THE CHARGES

Ms Glastonbury, 49, and Mark Murphy, 51, have yet to plead to charges including murder, attempted murder, assault and serious criminal trespass.

Prosecutors allege they subjected Mr McLean to a months-long campaign of home invasions and violence before finally murdering him.

Mr Murphy’s twin brother, Peter James Murphy, 51, and his partner Lynette Sexton, 50, have yet to plead to charges of aiding and abetting the murder.

Prosecutors allege they aided in removing and storing Mr McLean’s body as part of “a conspiracy”.

While in custody, Ms Glastonbury has fought orders severing her access to a home and cars she claims are hers, but which prosecutors allege belonged to Mr McLean.

FREEDOM BID

On Tuesday, Stacey Carter, for Ms Glastonbury, asked her client be released on home detention bail to live with either her current lover or her mother.

She said that, due to “security issues” between Ms Glastonbury and Ms Sexton, her client had been serving her remand period in an isolation section of the Adelaide Women’s Prison.

Incarceration, she said, left Ms Glastonbury at risk of homelessness as no mortgage payments had been made on the Andrews Farm property at which Mr McLean was allegedly murdered.

Ms Carter said Ms Glastonbury’s mental health and physical health were at risk due to improper treatment, by prison medical staff, of her sleep apnoea.

Ms Glastonbury, who appeared by video link, spoke up to support those claims.

“For 10 days I haven’t had a CPAP machine because I’ve been in isolation where they watch me under cameras,” she said.

“I’m in D Wing, there’s about seven of us here under cameras … we’re not allowed to have anything, I sleep in a canvas dress.”

The home once shared by Geoffrey McLean and Sheree May Glastonbury. Picture: NCA NewsWire/David Mariuz

THE “CONSPIRACY”

Mark Alessandrini, prosecuting, said Ms Glastonbury was an unsuitable candidate for bail given the risk she posed to the ongoing investigation, to witnesses and to herself.

He said she had “orchestrated a series of attacks” upon Mr McLean that began on April 10, 2022 and “culminated in his murder” on August 18, 2022.

“Months prior to the first attack, Ms Glastonbury sent an SMS to her sister indicating she wanted Mr McLean out of her life,” he said.

“It read ‘I’m over the c**t, why won’t he just die, I will sort him, when he goes I don’t want to see his face again.’”

The first attack, he said, was committed on April 10 by Mark Murphy, who was armed with a sauce bottle filled with an acidic liquid.

Mr McLean was outside at the time of the attack, Mr Alessandrini said, because Ms Glastonbury asked him to check “why the dogs are barking”.

Three days later, he said, Mr McLean was asleep on his couch when Mr Murphy struck him in the head with a green-handled log-splitting axe.

He said Mr McLean “managed to deflect a second strike” and yelled at Ms Glastonbury to call triple-0, but she “delayed in giving the operator their address”.

Mr Alessandrini said Mr Murphy fled the scene, and that Mr McLean later told police he was “100 per cent certain” his assailant was the same person who had attacked him with acid.

“Mark Murphy and Shree Glastonbury had worked together for 10 years and been friends and, sometimes, intimate partners over that period,” he said.

“On the day of the second attack, more than 100 messages were sent between them … Ms Glastonbury was later observed by police making a call at the scene, it was to Mr Murphy.

“Mr Murphy’s DNA was matched to the shaft of the log-splitter, to two bloodstains on the hallway wall and a third on the loungeroom floor.

“Following her later arrest, Ms Glastonbury told a fellow inmate that Mr McLean had claimed his attacker was 5’4” and laughed because Mark is 5’11”.”

THE OTHER LOVER

Mr Alessandrini said the next attack orchestrated by Ms Glastonbury was carried out by another of her lovers, Anthony James Lloyd.

He has pleaded guilty to, and been jailed for, disfiguring Mr McLean with acid in a May 2022 attack.

“Mr Lloyd has provided statements to the prosecution, stating that the attack was done at the request and direction of Ms Glastonbury … she asked him a fortnight before,” he said.

“He said she wanted him to harm Mr McLean such that he would be significantly injured and be unable to return to their home.

“Phone records show Ms Glastonbury called Mr Lloyd five times in the 2 ½ hours prior to the offence and nine times while he was at the scene of the incident.

“She later told a fellow inmate that Mr Lloyd was ‘stupid’ because he ‘didn’t get the acid anywhere near Geoff’ but, if police found his phone, ‘I will be f**ked’.”

THE “MURDER”

Mr Alessandrini said police believed Mr McLean was murdered in his home on August 18, 2022, sometime after playing golf and dining with friends.

His last recorded contact with the outside world, he said, was at 4.46pm that day when he called a friend to say he had arrived home safely.

“We believe Mr McLean was murdered shortly after that telephone call, and murdered by Sheree May Glastonbury,” he said.

“Just after 7pm, Mark Murphy was dropped off at the house by taxi … he has stated he saw Mr McLean ‘dead in bed’, and that Ms Glastonbury ‘killed him using insulin’.”

Mr Alessandrini said the duo dragged Mr McLean’s body to the carport and dismembered it with a hacksaw, then transported his remains to Mr Murphy’s home at Brahma Lodge.

There, he said, they stole his neighbour’s wheelie bin and placed Mr McLean’s torso into it, covering it with twigs and branches.

Mr Alessandrini said that, between August 20 and 23, the duo purchased a large amount of supplies from local stores including bleach, tarps, garbage bags and disinfectant.

He said they also purchased “LED torches that could detect the presence of bodily fluids” – the materials, he said, were used to clean Ms Glastonbury’s carport.

Despite their efforts, he said, forensic examiners had matched Mr McLean’s DNA to the carport, including a section of floor that had been “bleached white”.

Prosecutors allege Ms Glastonbury, left, used insulin to murder Mr McLean, right.

THE DISPOSAL

On August 21, Mr Alessandrini said, a Budget rental truck was booked online – it was later recorded, on security cameras, travelling to Cadell and returning to Adelaide.

“There were two people inside, with descriptions consistent with Ms Glastonbury and Mr Murphy, and also items inside consistent with those purchased,” he said.

“We suspect that was for the purposes of disposing of body parts.

“Subsequently, there were voice messages sent by Mr Murphy to Ms Glastonbury, asking she bring the truck back to him.

“In one, he said ‘I need the truck, I need the keys, you don’t know how much I’m copping here … if you loved me you would do this for me’.

“In another, he said ‘hey murderer, where’s the truck, hey murderer, where’s the truck, Sheree Glastonbury, you’re a murderer, where’s the truck?’.

“After her arrest, Ms Glastonbury told another inmate she ‘felt bad’ for whoever finds the body because it was ‘covered in maggots and smelled really bad’.

“When she saw footage of police searching for the body, she said that Lynette Sexton was leading them ‘on a wild-goose chase’.”

He said that, when asked by the inmate about the tarps and cleaning products, Ms Glastonbury claimed she had switched them for other items because she was “not stupid”.

“RISK OF REOFFENDING”

Mr Alessandrini said that, if released, Ms Glastonbury could interfere with the investigation given the seriousness of the allegations and her consumption of methylamphetamine.

“Her behaviour is often erratic and unpredictable, there are multiple reports alleging her to be the perpetrator of domestic violence and threatening her intimate partners,” he said.

“Based on telephone intercepts, we believe her proposed bail guarantor would be at risk of harm were she released.

“The proposed bail address is the scene of the alleged murder, and Mr McLean’s head, arms and legs have never been recovered … we believe Ms Glastonbury has knowledge about that.

“She has proposed her mother as an alternative bail address but has, in text messages, been abusive toward her.

“She wrote ‘you spastic c**t, I will hate you for the rest of my life, f***ing slagging me off … inbred family’ … you are a f***ing nasty old moll’.”

The state’s chief magistrate, Judge Mary-Louise Hribal, ordered a report concerning Ms Glastonbury’s health and remanded her in custody for a further hearing on bail next month.