A jury has been unable to achieve a verdict over the alleged homicide of a younger mom whose physique was wrapped in plastic and dumped in a creek north of Sydney.
On Thursday, NSW Supreme Courtroom Justice Robertson Wright discharged the jury which was break up on whether or not Justin Kent Dilosa, 36, murdered the then 29-year-old Danielle Easey with a knife and hammer.
The identical jury discovered Dilosa's co-accused Carol Marie McHenry, 35, responsible of the homicide on Monday.
Throughout a prolonged trial, the jury heard Easey had been brutally bashed at McHenry's Narara residence on August 17, 2019 after the 2 ladies, together with Dilosa, took ice collectively earlier that day.
Her physique had intensive scalp lacerations, cranium depressions and stab wounds to her again.
Easey was allegedly wrapped a chemsuit, plastic and tape and hid in a cabinet stashed in Dilosa's van earlier than being dumped in a creek close to the M1 motorway at Killingworth the place it was found two weeks later.
Dilosa and McHenry, who had been in an intense romantic relationship till August 2018, every pleaded not responsible and pointed the finger at one another for the killing.
The jury was informed McHenry obtained into an argument together with her good friend Easey who had gadgets stolen from her son and boyfriend in her purse.
Whereas admitting that he helped cowl up the homicide, together with by throwing the knife and hammer into a fireplace, Dilosa mentioned he had been bodily threatened by McHenry after the killing when he urged she needed to take accountability for what had occurred.
He'll seem for arraignment within the NSW Supreme Courtroom on February 10 subsequent yr.
McHenry's sentence listening to has been scheduled for April 3.