Tiffany Taylor murder trial: Teen ‘killed by man she met for sex’, court hears

A pregnant, 16-year-old Tiffany Taylor did not simply vanish without a trace. She was murdered by a man she met for sex, the prosecution told a jury moments before they retired to decide a verdict.

THE jury have retired in the case against Rodney Wayne Williams, who is accused of the murder of pregnant teen Tiffany Taylor.

The jury have been told the girl did not simply “disappear without leaving a trace”, but was killed by the man who she met for sex.

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Williams, 65, has been on trial in the Brisbane Supreme Court over the murder of the 16-year-old girl at Waterford West on July 12, 2015.

He pleaded not guilty to killing the teen, who was 15 weeks pregnant when she was allegedly murdered.

Murder accused Rodney Williams.

Crown Prosecutor Phil McCarthy QC previously told a Queensland jury Tiffany Taylor’s body has never been found, her bank accounts have not been touched and she has not made a Medicare claim since before July 2015.

“Tiffany did not disappear without leaving any trace,” he said, saying the girl’s blood was found in Williams car on the glovebox, gearstick and front passenger seat.

“Traces of her blood were found in this car when examined by a forensic scientist on the 4th August 2015.

“It is... the car owned by Rodney Williams and it was driven by him on July 12, 2015.

Tiffany Taylor disappeared in July, 2015.

“It was this car that Rodney Williams used to collect Tiffany for a paid sexual liaison that was meant to take place... and she has never been seen again.

“The crown contend that Rodney Williams murdered Tiffany during this liaison.”

The court heard Ms Taylor had met Williams for sex the night she went missing.

Williams was later seen on traffic cameras with a woman in his car as he merged onto the Logan Motorway, the court was told.

Chat logs between the pair, that were today shown to the jury, show Williams had agreed to pay the teen $500 for sex in a car during a chat which began around 11am in the morning of the day she went missing.

More than 12 hours later after they made the agreement to meet, chat logs show Williams wrote again: “Sorry I didn’t turn up, I decided I wasn’t going to pay for it”.

The crown allege he sent this after being contacted after police about the girl’s disappearance as a “false trail”.

Tiffany Taylor moved in with Gregory Hill, who the jury heard was a violent man. (AAP Image/Jono Searle)

Williams would later tell police Ms Taylor wanted to meet up with him not for sex but because “she told me I sounded interesting”, the court heard.

Mr McCarthy told the court Ms Taylor was in a “desperate financial position” and had been “supporting herself financially by selling her body”.

“Tiffany had left school at a young age and taken up with a man much older than her,” the court heard.

Ms Taylor was living with the man, Gregory Hill, in a hotel at Waterford West when she went missing.

The jury also heard evidence Hill was a violent man.

Originally published as Tiffany Taylor murder trial: Teen ‘killed by man she met for sex’, court hears