Slain teen Tiffany Taylor charged with extortion prior to disappearance

Slain teenager Tiffany Taylor was charged with extortion before her death, accused of telling a lover she would claim rape if he didn’t give her money, a court has heard.

SLAIN teenager Tiffany Taylor was charged with extortion prior to her disappearance after threatening a lover she would tell police he raped her if he didn’t hand over $3000, a court has heard.

Rodney Wayne Williams, 65, is on trial in the Brisbane Supreme Court over the murder of 16-year-old Ms Taylor at Waterford West on July 12, 2015. He has pleaded not guilty

Tiffany Taylor’s body has never been found.

The teen was 15 weeks’ pregnant when she was allegedly killed.

Her body has never been found.

Crown Prosecutor Phil McCarthy QC told the court Williams is alleged to have murdered the teen after meeting her for paid sex in a car almost five years ago.

The court heard Ms Taylor’s blood was found in Williams car after it was later examined by police.

Williams told officers he never had intercourse with the teen and she got into the car with a bloody nose.

The court today heard Williams advertised on social media for “submissive females”.

In a document shown to the jury, which they were previously told was Williams’ Oasis social networking site profile, the man described himself as a “master looking for submissive females”.

“I would love to teach the right girl the good life,” it read.

“... I pride myself in the fact (that) I know more about the female body than most girls ...

“Please girls say that you are willing to try anything for the first time, don’t run and hide...”

Another man, Mark Turner, this morning gave evidence he had been seeing Ms Taylor, who he knew by the name Gwyneth, up to April 2015.

He said he met the teen, he later found out was named Tiffany Taylor, on Craigslist and asked to meet up for “company”.

Rodney Wayne Williams

Mr Turner told the court he did not believe Ms Taylor was aged 18, but she showed him an ID card, which said she was this age.

He said the pair texted regularly in the lead-up to April 2015 and eventually became intimate in a Brisbane park.

“They were more like a boyfriend-girlfriend sneaking around, I wouldn’t pay her afterwards or before or anything like that,” Mr Turner said.

Mr Turner said he had given Ms Taylor $2700 to pay off debts in the time they knew each other.

“We did have sex on two occasions, at no point did I feel I was paying for that sex in a prostitute-style engagement,” he told the jury.

“The money I was giving her was to help with other things because I liked her not because I was paying for things.”

Mr Turner said Ms Taylor soon became pushy, asking for more money.

She asked him for $3000 but when Mr Turner refused to pay, she told he she would tell police he had sexually assaulted her, the court heard.

“She said she would go to the police and say I raped her,” Mr Turner told the jury.

“The detail she gave was that because we had had sex she would just claim it, she would be a victim and be able to claim victim’s compensation up to $50,000 and it would drag me through the mud and I would go to prison.”

Mr Turner said he stopped texting Ms Taylor after the threat because he didn’t know his “legal rights” and reported the incident to police.

In April 2015, Ms Taylor was charged with extortion, the court heard.

She went missing three months later.

Gregory Hill leaves the Brisbane Supreme Court during the trial. Picture: Jono Searle/AAP

The court has previously heard Taylor began dating a man Gregory Hill, who she met when she began cleaning the house of another neighbour, Don, at age 11.

Ms Taylor and Mr Hill commenced a relationship when she was age 12 and he was 38 years old. The teen soon dropped out of school and left home.

Defence barrister Eoin Mac Giolla Ri said the prosecution had asked the jury to consider some things in detail but “ignore other aspects of the case, such as the near impossibility of him (Williams) killing her and disposing of the body”.

The trial continues.

Originally published as Slain teen Tiffany Taylor charged with extortion prior to disappearance