Queensland police allege a woman was killed five days before her body was found in a Townsville unit.
Police have charged a man over the death of a 47-year-old woman at a Garbutt home.A 53-year-old man is in custody after being charged with murder in relation to the death of a 47-year-old woman in Townsville.What's next?abc.net.au/news/man-charged-murder-death-townsville-woman-garbutt/104711256A man has been charged with murder after the discovery of a woman's body in the North Queensland city of Townsville more than a month ago.
Police on Wednesday said a 53-year-old Palm Island man had appeared in the Mareeba Magistrates Court, 380 kilometres north of Townsville, on Monday.Her body was found with a stab wound to the chest at a home in the Townsville suburb of Garbutt on November 4.Police found the woman's body on November 4.Her body was discovered after an anonymous caller asked police to do a welfare check.
The man, who police say was known to the woman, has been remanded in custody and is due to appear in the Townsville Magistrates Court next year.The woman's death was the third violent death of a woman in the Townsville policing district in less than three months.ABC North Qld: Cameron SimmonsTwo women, aged 39 and 41, died after allegedly being attacked by men known to them in separate domestic violence incidents.
In October, a 41-year-old woman died three days after allegedly being attacked at her home in the Townsville suburb of Vincent.A month earlier, a 39-year-old woman died from injuries sustained in an alleged attack on nearby Palm Island. A silent vigil was held in November on the Townsville foreshore to mourn the women's deaths and protest against domestic violence.
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