Accused Queensland killer Rodney Wayne Williams 'drove with dead teen' in passenger seat, court told

Images point out Rodney Wayne Williams drove alongside a freeway with a useless, pregnant teenager within the passenger seat, a court docket has heard.
Williams has pleaded not responsible in Brisbane Supreme Court docket to murdering 16-year-old Tiffany Taylor after she was final seen leaving a motel south of Brisbane in July 2015.
The Crown alleges Williams and Tiffany organized to satisfy after connecting on a courting web site.

Rodney Wayne Williams (left) is accused of murdering Tiffany Taylor (right).
Rodney Wayne Williams (left) is accused of murdering Tiffany Taylor (proper).(Equipped)

Williams picked up Tiffany exterior the Loganlea motel after telling her he had $400 for half-hour of intercourse earlier than driving to a distant industrial space the place he seemingly killed her, crown prosecutor Caroline Marco mentioned.
He then drove to his "previous stomping floor" at Fernvale, 100km northwest of Logan, to get rid of the physique, she instructed the jury on Thursday.
Footage on motorway cameras and telephone monitoring particulars on cell towers point out that Tiffany was within the automotive with Williams, the court docket heard.
Tiffany's blood and DNA have been additionally present in Williams' automobile.
Marco mentioned photographs from toll cubicles indicated Williams with a passenger in his Hyundai sedan, highlighting one at Heathwood coming into the Ipswich motorway.
She mentioned whereas it was not essentially the most clear picture it indicated an individual slumped on a reclined passenger seat - an individual the prosecutor claimed could also be a useless Tiffany.

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Taylor's blood was allegedly present in Williams' automotive.(Equipped)

"As audacious as it'd sound that an individual would put a deceased particular person within the entrance seat of the automotive, do not forget that his journey was alongside a motorway ... and at excessive pace and if she was slumped within the seat passing motorists might imagine ... she was asleep," Marco instructed the jury.
Tiffany had been demanding and chronic about cost with different males and would have been irate when she came upon Williams didn't have the money after they parked on the industrial space, she mentioned.
The court docket has heard Williams' automobile was parked for 22 minutes.
"That (no money) was more likely to have resulted in an altercation between them," Marco mentioned.
"There was greater than ample time for Mr Williams to deliberately kill the younger, small and petitely framed Ms Taylor at that location."
Williams is accused of making a false path of communication with Tiffany on the courting web site afterwards, together with his final message studying: "Sorry I did not flip up, determined I wasn't going to pay for it".
He was intercepted by officers at a Brisbane prepare station with a bag of garments and mawkish objects in August 2015, a day earlier than he was purported to be interviewed by police, Marco mentioned.

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Tiffany Taylor was final seen leaving a motel south of Brisbane in July 2015.(Equipped)

Williams then instructed police a "litany of lies".
Within the interview Williams tells police he dropped Tiffany off at Redbank and went house, later conceding that they parked on the industrial space however have been solely "speaking".
Williams mentioned he dropped off Tiffany at a truck cease off the Warrego Freeway.
He additionally claimed Tiffany had a bleeding nostril when requested about her blood present in his automotive.
Williams' barrister Kim Bryson instructed the jury that her consumer had lied to police however had not killed the pregnant teen.
Bryson earlier instructed the court docket that Tiffany had an "abusive and dysfunctional relationship" with a violent and controlling boyfriend that began when the lady was 12.
The trial earlier than Justice Peter Applegarth continues.

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