Torso murder trial: Lindy Williams ‘manipulative and calculating’

A WOMAN who left her dead partner’s torso burning on the side of a road was not a victim of domestic violence but a manipulative killer, her murder trial has been told.

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ACCUSED killer Lindy Williams cut up her boyfriend’s body and told a series of “manipulative and calculating” lies to cover up his death, a court has been told.

In his closing address in the 60-year-old’s murder trial today, Crown prosecutor Todd Fuller QC told Brisbane Supreme Court Williams had not been a victim of domestic violence, but had been “unmasked” as a killer.

Williams has pleaded not guilty to killing 66-year-old Coolum Football Club president George Gerbic in September 2013, but 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.

It took police over 10 months to identify his remains because they were unable to match his DNA to any on file.

Williams has claimed Mr Gerbic died when he slipped and fell after stabbing her in the arm with a steak knife during an argument.

The court was told Williams told police she returned to her home at Tanawha on the Sunshine Coast after staying in hotel to find the man’s dismembered body in an ensuite bathroom.

She told police she then dumped the body on the side of a road because she wanted him to be found, the court heard.

The jury heard during the trial Williams allegedly contacted Mr Gerbic’s friends and family from his phone and email address, posing as the man, after his death.

“This woman here, for 10 months, was manipulative, calculating and engaged in a whole episode, with family, with friends, with acquaintances, all to carry out the subterfuge because of what she did,” Mr Fuller said.

He told the court Williams had positioned herself as the victim, following Mr Gerbic’s death.

“She is not the victim, she is someone who has been systematic and calculated in her actions,” Mr Fuller said.

The Crown prosecutor later told the jury: “She can’t explain her involvement with respect to they way George was dismembered, because the only explanation of that is that she was involved in his death.

“She knows the truth of that is really her undoing and unmasks her for the killer that she is.”

Williams did not take the stand to give evidence today, and her legal team will present its closing submissions tomorrow.