Biannca Edmunds sought sugar daddy on Tinder three months after husband, ex-lover deaths, court hears

A widow snapped up a Tinder sugar daddy three months after an alleged plan to have her husband kill her ex-lover backfired, a court heard.

Biannca Edmunds has been accused of getting her new husband Glen Cassidy to kill her son’s dad Michael Caposiena. Picture: Nicki Connolly

A widow was on the hunt for a sugar daddy on Tinder three months after her alleged plot to have her husband kill her ex-lover backfired when both men died in the ambush, a court has heard.

Biannca Edmunds is facing a Supreme Court trial over the murder of her young son’s dad, Michael Caposiena, at his Westmeadows unit on March 12, 2016.

Police allege she persuaded her husband of only three weeks, Glen Cassidy, to shoot him to stop an ongoing custody battle.

Mr Cassidy, 49, was stabbed and also died in the violent confrontation with Mr Caposiena, 32.

Ms Edmunds, 36, has pleaded not guilty to murder, saying she knew nothing of Mr Cassidy’s plan.

Biannca Edmunds is charged with murder. Picture: Nicki Connolly

But Todd Bookham, a man she met on Tinder in June 2016 and moved in to his place with her two children months later, told the court on Tuesday how she told him of the murder plot.

“I remember her saying ‘It’s all my fault (Glen’s) dead, and that he wasn’t meant to die … and just going about how she was going to hand herself in,” Mr Bookham said.

He said she detailed how her and Mr Cassidy had staked out Mr Caposiena’s home to see when he would be alone.

“She was telling me that they drawed a map, so if he was to go there and kill (Michael) … he didn’t get caught,” Mr Bookham said.

“She said it was the access points to the house, where the street lights were, where there were barking dogs that wouldn’t wake up Michael.”

Biannca Edmunds and her husband Glen Cassidy.

Mr Bookham said Ms Edmunds also told him she wrote a text message to herself from Mr Cassidy’s phone on the day of the murder to distance herself from being involved.

The court earlier heard the message, purporting to be Mr Cassidy, read: “Biannca, I love you so much you have no idea. I’m about to do something that you would consider absolutely f---ing stupid but I can’t put up with this s — t anymore”.

He added: “If I get caught I want them to know you had nothing at all to do with this. This is my choice, my decision. You know nothing about it.”

She then wrote back to the message: “Don’t be so bloody stupid”.

Mr Bookham said Ms Edmunds told him “she typed the message in case anything went wrong with taking care of Michael”.

Michael Caposiena died when the murder plot backfired.

But she only told him the details, he said, after he confronted her about lying to him about being a widow after her husband died from cancer 12 months earlier.

Mr Bookham said he had found out information about Mr Cassidy and Mr Caposiena’s death on the internet.

“She pretty much said to me that if she had told me that at the start of the relationship, we probably never would have got together, and she needed a father figure for her kids,” Mr Bookham said.

The court earlier heard that Ms Edmunds had told another associate following the deaths that she would be able to move on and “start recruiting my next sugar daddy”.

The trial, before Justice Lex Lasry, continues.