Teah Luckwell was Jesse Green’s ‘top’ conversation topic: court
A man accused of murdering a young neighbour he thought was “hot” was upset to learn she had a new partner, a court has heard.
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A man accused of murdering a young neighbour he thought was “hot” was upset to learn she had a new partner, a court has heard.
Teah Luckwell, 22, was found in a pool of blood in her South Tamworth home on the evening of March 28, 2018, next to her one-year-old child who had tragically spent hours with her dead body.
Her former neighbour Jesse Green, 30, was found unfit to stand trial for her murder and is now facing a special hearing before NSW Supreme Court Justice Stephen Campbell.
Special hearings are similar to criminal trials but the accused can raise mental health issues or cognitive impairment as a defence.
Kasey Louise Stace, a friend of Green, who lived just a three-minute drive from Ms Luckwell‘s house, told the court Green had spoken of the young mum “a few times” and thought she was “hot”.
She saw the pair spending time together before Green went to jail but he was upset upon his release in early 2018 to find out she had a new partner.
Ms Stace gave a statement to police a month after Ms Tuckwell’s murder, which said the mum was his “top subject”.
“She was the top of his subject for quite a while. They were really getting along … he did really like her,” Ms Stace‘s statement read.
Ms Stace said Green popped around to her house the night before Ms Luckwell’s death but the only thing she could remember from his short visit was him singing rap music.
Ms Tuckwell’s friend Josh Moore, who sometimes sold her cannabis, told the court on Monday people had been “scaring” her, in the lead up to her death.
“She told me she was a bit freaked out. There were some messages on her phone … some people were scaring her. She didn’t go further into it,” Mr Moore told the court.
He told the court his brother Johanr Moore chased a man he saw putting dead flowers on Ms Luckwell’s front veranda before she was murdered.
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