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A Queensland man accused of abducting his mom final week has now been charged along with her homicide.
Brisbane Magistrates Courtroom heard on Tuesday that the police had laid one further cost in opposition to Slade Murdok, 30, for the homicide of his 61-year-old mom Wendy Sleeman.
Murdok was arrested on Wednesday final week after Ms Sleeman went lacking from her Gold Coast residence and was later discovered lifeless in Brisbane.
He appeared in courtroom on Thursday final week and was refused bail on a string of home violence-related fees, together with kidnapping, assault, stalking and tried arson.
The police prosecutor advised Justice of the Peace Belinda Merrin on Tuesday that Murdok was not required to seem in particular person or through video-link for the homicide cost to be heard.
Murdok’s solicitor, Rodney Keyte, advised the courtroom his shopper had been charged over alleged offenses that had been dedicated on the Gold Coast.
Mr Keyte stated he had an “uncommon request” to go on to the Justice of the Peace.
“He has an harm to his hand… he asks for an order that fingerprints not be taken till it has healed,” Mr Keyte stated.
Ms Merrin stated she didn’t perceive the request and didn’t know which energy can be used to grant it if she may.
Murdock was ordered to reappear at Southport Magistrates Courtroom on February 14, the place he’s additionally due for an additional listening to on the home violence-related fees associated to Ms Sleeman’s alleged abduction.
Police started searching for Ms Sleeman on Tuesday final week, shortly after she contacted the police to inform them of a disturbance at her Elanora residence.
A police assertion alleged officers once they arrived at Ms Sleeman’s residence discovered blood on the property and a doormat on fireplace which was shortly extinguished, nonetheless no one was situated.
The search ended two days later once they recovered her physique from a automotive parked inside a storage at Windsor, in Brisbane’s inside north.
Brisbane Magistrates Courtroom on Friday held a quick listening to on separate fees filed in opposition to Murdok final yr.
Murdok had been launched on bail on the time of Ms Sleeman’s alleged homicide final week.
He was charged with the intense assault of a police officer, bodily obstructing a police officer and contravening a police order to provide his full identify and tackle on April 14 at a home in Ferny Grove in Brisbane’s outer northwest.
The 2022 matter was adjourned till Could 19 within the Psychological Well being Courtroom.
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– AAP
