SA Supreme Court declines bail application by alleged wheelie bin love triangle conspiracy murderer Sheree May Glastonbury

The woman at the centre of the alleged wheelie bin love triangle murder conspiracy won’t be home for Christmas, with a judge dashing her bail hopes.

The accused wheelie bin love triangle conspiracy murderer is unsuitable for bail because the evidence against her is “suggestive of an inclination to manipulate others”, a court says.

On Tuesday, and after multiple hearings over the past two months, the Supreme Court dismissed Sheree May Glastonbury’s bid for release on home detention bail.

In his ruling, Justice Ben Doyle said state law precluded alleged murderers from receiving bail unless they could establish “special circumstances” warranting their release.

Ms Glastonbury’s personal circumstances and purported hardships were, he found, so “routine” that they would be “hard to describe as special”.

Her alleged offending, he said, was precisely the sort of matter parliament sought to address when it changed the law to stop accused murderers receiving bail easily.

“The allegations here are that she involved two other people in acts of serious violence, and another two people to assist her in the aftermath of the offending,” he said.

“Unlike a case with a single charge of murder against a person who is said to have acted alone, this is a case of alleged orchestration and, apparently, cold-blooded murder involving multiple people.

“(It is) suggestive of an inclination to manipulate others … I reject the submission that she does not pose the risk contemplated by parliament.

Sheree May Glastonbury is charged with murdering her partner Geoffrey McLean.

“If anything, given the nature of the allegations, I consider that her circumstances seriously indicate the existence of the very risk parliament may have had in mind.”

Ms Glastonbury, 49, has pleaded not guilty to offences including murder, attempted murder, assault and serious criminal trespass.

She is one of two people charged with Mr McLean’s murder, while two other people are charged with aiding and abetting in the disposal of his body.

At a hearing last month, Ms Glastonbury asked the court to grant her bail due to her sleep apnoea, scalp infection, vision problems, mental health and post-surgical “complications”.

She argued her issues could not be adequately managed in prison, putting her in a similar situation to unrelated alleged murderer Raelene Polymiadis, who won bail over diabetes.

In his ruling on Tuesday, Justice Doyle said Ms Glastonbury provided “no expert medical evidence” to support the purported improper management of her health issues.

“The communication of those issues (to authorities) is overlaid with a degree of distress and desperation,” he said.

He said he was “not persuaded” any of those issues, considered alone or in combination, amounted to special circumstances.

He noted Ms Glastonbury was likely to have spent three, if not four, years on remand before facing trial but said that was an “unfortunate” result of court resourcing issues.

“After anxious consideration, I’m not persuaded that the requirements of special circumstances have been established … I dismiss the application for bail,” he said.

He remanded Ms Glastonbury in custody to face court again, alongside her co-accused, in March.