Secret police recordings reveal Melissa Beowulf and her sons discussed tossing her dead mother-in-law's ashes in the rubbish.
Portrait artist Melissa Beowulf and her two eldest sons discussed tossing the ashes of her mother-in-law in the bin, secret police recordings have revealed.In police recordings, Melissa Beowulf and her sons can be heard discussing the police investigation
The trio are also heard saying there is no evidence against them, as the dead woman was clumsy and had other health problems Melissa Beowulf and her two sons Thorsten, 32, and Bjorn, 31, are on trial in the ACT Supreme Court for killing Katherine Panin in 2015. Ms Panin, who was 81, was found dead on the back stairs of the family home in Canberra's leafy Red Hill.
In the police recordings, when Melissa Beowulf suggests throwing the ashes in the bin, one of her sons replies:"It is what she deserves," Mrs Beowulf can be heard saying.The tapes also reveal increasing alarm at the police interest in Ms Panin's death.And during the conversations she took aim at her late husband Thorhammer Beowulf's second partner, Diane McGowan, who she believed had been fuelling police suspicion.
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