Private investigator tells of phone call in torso case

A WOMAN charged with murdering her de facto partner told a private investigator another man killed him and she disposed of some of his body parts, a court has heard.

The road near Gympie where the headless torso of George Gerbic (inset right) was found. His partner Lindy Williams (inset left) is on trial for his murder.

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A PRIVATE investigator has told a court how a woman charged with murdering her de facto partner told him another man killed him and she disposed of some of his body parts.

Investigator and ex-detective Guy Oakley said Lindy Williams told him in a phone call after her arrest of a Chinese friend killing George Gerbic and chopping up his body.

Mr Oakley told the court Williams said she had told the Chinese man, also a private investigator, about Gerbic assaulting her and her wanting to recover money from him.

He said Williams said the Chinese man suggested he could go to see Gerbic at his Sunshine Coast house and get the $46,000 from him.

She said a couple of days later the man told her he had got into a fight with Gerbic, at his property, and had killed him, Mr Oakley told the Supreme Court.

“She then told me this fellow had chopped up George and that he had dispersed certain parts of him but there was still a part of him in a bag which was left at the house,” Mr Oakley said.

He said Williams said the man told her he had decamped with some body parts, after a man knocked at the door, but there was another part of the body still there.

Mr Oakley said Williams said the man told her she should get rid of the remaining body part.

Police at the Sunshine Coast home of victim George Gerbic

“That’s what she did. She’d gone up there and arrived at the house to see body parts there,” Mr Oakley said.

“She’d gone to Gympie with the body parts. She told me she’d done what was instructed by the fellow and built a little fire.”

Mr Oakley said Williams told him her stress was at such a level afterwards that she had sat in the car wishing someone would find her, because she didn’t know what to do.

He said he believed Williams was in prison at the time of the phone conversation in August, 2014.

Mr Oakley said Williams told him she had been charged with Gerbic’s murder and wanted the information passed on so that people would know she was not the direct cause.

He said she also said she wanted protection for her family.

Mr Oakley said after the phone conversation with Williams he contacted police.

Lindy Yvonne Williams, 60, has pleaded not guilty to murdering her de facto partner George Gerbic, 66, on the Sunshine Coast in September 2013.

She has pleaded guilty to disposing of his body.

Mr Gerbic’s torso was found burning on the side of the road near Gympie on September 19, 2013.

Williams has claimed Gerbic died after hitting his head on a kitchen benchtop, after slipping on her blood, after he cut her arm.

She told police she he may have fatally hit his head as she was defending herself with a bar stool.