Police have charged a 39-year-old man, believed to have been the woman’s son, with murder and improperly interfering with a corpse.
A man has been arrested after the body of a woman, believed to have been his mother, was found in a car boot in a small Northern Rivers town.
Police were responding to a concern for welfare call at a unit on Park Street in Evans Head, south of Ballina, when they made the grim discovery about 8am on Friday.Police at the scene where a woman’s body was found in a car boot.He was charged late on Friday afternoon with murder and improperly interfering with a corpse.A crime scene has been established and an investigation into the woman’s death is ongoing.
Evans Head is a holiday destination known for its beaches and bushland, and has a population of just under 3000.
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