Kate Lloyd jailed for hiding body after dad-of-two Goran Stefanovic’s murder
Former sex worker Kate Lloyd has been jailed for five years after she used Aldi bags to help hide the body of Goran Stevanovic after he was allegedly murdered by her boyfriend.
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A woman who used Aldi bags to help hide the body of a man who her boyfriend allegedly murdered in Sydney’s southwest has been jailed for five years.
Former sex worker Kate Lloyd appeared in Downing Centre District Court on Thursday after pleading guilty to being an accessory after the fact to murder over the incident in Sadleir in January last year.
Dad-of-two Goran Stevanovic, 40, had been missing for days when police found his dismembered and badly decomposed body in a shower in a unit where Lloyd’s partner, Khanh Pham, 38, was living.
Pham was charged with murder over the gruesome killing and is yet to enter a plea.
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The court heard Stevanovic went to the unit to buy the drug ice when Pham allegedly stabbed him in the back while Lloyd was sleeping.
Judge Gina O’Rourke told the court Stevanovic yelled out “what have you done?” before he ran out of the unit, but tripped and fell over near the entrance.
Pham allegedly set upon Stevanovic a second time, fatally stabbing him in the chest which caused the knife’s blade to snap off, Judge O’Rourke said.
The court heard Pham went back inside and allegedly yelled “help, come and help” to Lloyd before she used Aldi bags to help pick up Stevanovic’s body and put it in the unit's shower.
The couple cleaned up the blood with a bucket and broom and used Stevanovic’s car to attend a methadone clinic in the days after his death.
Judge O’Rourke said Pham later allegedly dismembered the father.
His body was not discovered until four days later when Pham’s mother entered the unit and found Stevanovic “in an advanced state of decomposition” and police were called.
When asked why she did not call authorities after she was later arrested, Lloyd responded “I have never called the police, I have always hated the police”.
She also said she “could not dog” Pham, and admitted that after Stevanovic’s death there was “a whole family without a son (or) without a brother — we have ruined the lives of a lot of people”.
In sentencing Lloyd, Judge O’Rourke said Stevanovic’s family had been left shattered after the alleged murder.
“Goran was a young man with two young children and clearly was raised in a loving and close family,” she said.
“His death has left two children without a father and parents without a son.
“His death has left a family bereft, on behalf of the court I offer my sympathy to them.”
Lloyd was sentenced to five years and three months in jail with a non-parole period of three years and six months. She will be eligible for parole in July 2022 with time already served.