‘I found my fiance dead’: Jury played triple-0 call in Maureen Boyce murder trial
The triple-0 call made on the morning 68-year-old former model Maureen Boyce was found dead in her bed with a knife buried in her stomach has been played in court during her lover’s murder trial.
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The triple-0 call made on the morning 68-year-old Maureen Boyce was found dead in her bed with a knife buried in her stomach has been played in court.
Retired doctor and Ms Boyce’s lover Thomas Chris Lang, who has pleaded not guilty to murdering the former model, made the call early in the morning on October 22, 2015, telling the operator “I found my fiance dead.”
“I just woke up this morning and I found my fiance dead in her bed,” Lang says on the recording.
During the call to emergency services, which takes place over two calls after the first dropped out, Lang says Ms Boyce had been “distraught” the night before her death after her multimillion-dollar Kangaroo Apartment failed to sell to prospective buyers.
“She’s dead,” he says.
“I’m a doctor myself, I’m visiting from New Zealand.
“I just woke up and there’s a knife in her abdomen.”
When asked whether someone had broken in to the apartment, Lang says he doesn’t think so.
“There’s been no forced entry, it looks self-induced,” he says.
At another point in the call he says: “It looks like she’s got her hand on the knife so I’m not sure.”
On the first day of the trial in the Brisbane Supreme Court yesterday Crown Prosecutor Todd Fuller said the during the trial, the jury would hear that a kitchen knife with a 19cm blade had gone through Ms Boyce’s stomach and pierced through her back into the mattress below her.
The prosecution alleges Lang murdered Ms Boyce but defence barrister Ruth O’Gorman said DNA belonging only to Mrs Boyce was found on the blade and there was no medical evidence she had struggled.
“The issue in this trial is whether Ms Boyce was killed by Mr Lang or whether she committed suicide,” Ms O’Gorman said.
“We will submit that the evidence establishes that Ms Boyce killed herself.”
The trial continues.
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