Lindy Williams’ police interview over killing of George Gerbic

THE police interview of the woman who murdered and dismembered her partner is a window into the mind of a callous killer. SEE IT NOW

• Caught in a lie
• Horrific and heartless

CONVICTED murderer Lindy Williams’ police interview is a window into the mind of a callous killer who left her lover to die on the kitchen floor without calling for help.

While it is unclear whether the account of Coolum Football Club president George Gerbic’s final moments is even true, Williams’ version of events can now be shown by The Courier-Mail for the first time.

The 60-year-old can be seen in the footage, being interviewed by detectives 10 months after Mr Gerbic was found decapitated on the side of a Sunshine Coast road in 2013.

She wears sunglasses throughout the recording, telling Detective Senior Constable Brett Long the lights in the room are playing havoc with her vision because she underwent brain surgery in Sydney several years earlier.

Williams tells the officers she and Mr Gerbic had an argument and she “pushed him away” from her with a kitchen stool and he slipped in blood, hitting his head on a nearby bench in early September 2013.

“It was a heavy chair and I was holding it by the top,” she tells Detective Long.

“I was really worried at that time because my face was bleeding; I had blood coming out of my face as well.”

Williams claimed the man she later cut up and dumped on the side of the road had violently gashed her in the arm with a steak knife.

Victim George Gerbic and his partner and killer Lindy Williams

This version of events was not believed by a Brisbane Supreme Court jury who on Friday convicted her of Mr Gerbic’s murder.

Williams also pleaded guilty to interfering with the 66-year-old’s corpse, hacking off his arms, legs and head and dumping his burning body by a roadside near Gympie on September 19, 2013.

The woman, who attended the police station voluntarily for the interview prior to being charged with murder in July 2014, told detectives Mr Gerbic threw her against walls in their home before he slipped and fell.

“This is the sequence of events and you’d like to have a camera to play back and say: ‘Oh that’s what happened’,” she tells police, hoping they’ll believe her story.

“The thing I can remember is his foot sipping on the floor and making a noise.

“I saw his foot and I was looking down and I ran, I ran into the bedroom and I heard the bang which I assumed was him hitting his head on the bench or falling on the floor … I wasn’t sort of turning around to see what it was …”

Williams would later tell police she stayed the night in the bedroom of the property before leaving for several days and returning to find the man’s headless torso wrapped in plastic in a bathroom.

She never phoned an ambulance or police and her defence barrister Simon Lewis conceded during the final days of the trial Williams had killed the man and cut up his body.

Williams was on Friday sentenced to life behind bars for the murder of Mr Gerbic.

Williams was also sentenced to two years’ jail for interfering with his corpse by dumping his decapitated body on the side of a road near Gympie almost five years ago.

The 60-year-old will be eligible for parole in 2034, when she is aged 76.