A person accused of kidnapping has had a bail bid knocked again as police allege proof of planning within the disappearance of his mom.
Wheelchair-bound with seen marks to his head, Slade Murdok sat quietly for almost all of his bail software in Brisbane Magistrates Courtroom on Thursday.
The 30-year-old was on bail for unrelated offences when he was arrested and charged in relation to the disappearance of his mom, Wendy Sleeman, the courtroom heard.
There are issues for the 61-year-old lady's welfare and an in depth search continues throughout the Gold Coast, Logan and Brisbane.
A criminal offense scene was declared at an Elanora residence earlier within the week after a considerable amount of blood was discovered on the property.
However Murdok's lawyer Rodney Keyte mentioned the case towards his consumer was weak regardless of the seriousness of the costs, which included varied home violence-related costs and prison counts of kidnapping, assault, stalking and tried arson.
Based mostly on the circumstantial proof, Keyte mentioned he extremely doubted the case would make it previous the committal stage and questioned what tied his consumer to the scene.
In opposing bail, police prosecutors argued that they had a "very sturdy and really highly effective" case towards Murdok.
Officers discovered a pool of blood on the toilet flooring and drag marks alongside the ground, indicating the sufferer was bleeding closely and unconscious, prosecutors mentioned in courtroom.
Sleeman feared for her personal security and believed Murdok would possibly attempt to kill her as lately as January 23, the courtroom heard.
In the meantime, police are concentrating on the seek for a blue Honda Jazz hatchback with no registration plates linked to Sleeman's disappearance.
The automobile was final seen at 5.50pm on Tuesday on the intersection of Paradise Street and Kingston Street in Logan Central.
"If somebody sees a blue Jazz with no quantity plates, ring," Detective Superintendent Brendan Smith mentioned on Thursday.
"We have got to search out Wendy earlier than it is too late."
Proof gathered to this point level to the occasions on the property being deliberate, Smith claimed to reporters.
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Sleeman had referred to as police after discovering a disturbance at her residence on Tuesday afternoon.
"She got here residence from work, and the home had been given some pressured entry, and he or she observed some injury," Smith mentioned.
By the point police arrived half-hour later, Sleeman was lacking.
Officers have been unable to intercept a automobile that was leaving the property at velocity and went again to the property the place they might scent petrol and see smoke, the courtroom was instructed.
Police claimed that the scene indicated there had been violence concerned within the disappearance, whereas and that there was additionally proof of a hearth that had began however was extinguished.
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