Speaker 1: Listeners are advised that this podcast series Bromwin contains coarse
Speaker 1: language and adult themes. This podcast series is brought to
Speaker 1: you by me Headley Thomas and The Australian. The town
Speaker 1: of Lismore in northern New South Wales is about a
Speaker 1: forty minute drive west from Sandstone Crescent, Lennox Head. The
Speaker 1: area's natural beauty disguises hidden dangers. Twenty nine big floods
Speaker 1: have swept through Lismore since eighteen seventy. The town is
Speaker 1: built on a floodplain. The residents just keep.
Speaker 2: Rebuilding, where thousands of people stranded homes inundated.
Speaker 3: The epicenter there is.
Speaker 4: Lismore, where dangerous rescues have been carried out all day
Speaker 4: as the city sees its worst flooding in its history.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty two, the river peaked again after heavy rain.
Speaker 1: Thousands of homes and businesses were inundated. Residents rode down
Speaker 1: the main street, rescuing strangers and delivering supplies to neighbors
Speaker 1: trapped by floodwaters. The Lismore Courthouse is one building the
Speaker 1: floods have not been able to erase. This impressive structure
Speaker 1: was built in eighteen eighty three and it has held
Speaker 1: on to the history of tragic cases that have passed
Speaker 1: through its doors. Cases like Bromwyn Winfields, which was explored
Speaker 1: in detail at a two thousand and two inquest into
Speaker 1: her disappearance. Other cases too, have left an indelible impression
Speaker 1: on the local population. In July nineteen eighty six, seven
Speaker 1: years before bromwin went missing, Alan James Stuckey, a local
Speaker 1: Lismore pharmacist, was put on trial for the alleged murder
Speaker 1: of his wife, Carolyn Stuckey. Alan had shot Carolyn three
Speaker 1: times in their bedroom in January the previous year, after
Speaker 1: she had admitted to having continued an affair with another
Speaker 1: local man, Alan Ennu, eight months before Carolyn was shot
Speaker 1: by her husband, Alan Stuckey. Alan Ennew's heartbroken wife, Madeleine,
Speaker 1: took her own life, leaving behind her young children. Carolyn
Speaker 1: Stuckey was a much loved school teacher who was actively
Speaker 1: involved in productions at the local Amateur theater. That's how
Speaker 1: she came to know Allan Ennu. She graced the pages
Speaker 1: of the Northern Star newspaper from time to time, including
Speaker 1: when you won the Miss Lismore beauty pageant in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy two.
Speaker 5: We never really know what's going on in people's private
Speaker 5: vibes behind those curtains. The ripplepond effect of situations like
Speaker 5: this is astonishing.
Speaker 1: Matthew Condon and I have looked closely at Carolyn's case.
Speaker 1: We went to Lismore together in February twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: four years ago, and we recorded some audio there. Some
Speaker 1: of the similarities with Bromwin are all too obvious. Coincidentally,
Speaker 1: Bromwin was meeting John in nineteen eighty five when Carolyn
Speaker 1: was slain.
Speaker 5: It was the two mothers that perished. The women were
Speaker 5: the ones that died, and the men, of course survived
Speaker 5: and moved on. This story is.
Speaker 3: As old as time.
Speaker 5: It is about.
Speaker 3: Dreams, it is about jealousy.
Speaker 5: It is about male presumption and possession of women.
Speaker 3: That's Shakespearean.
Speaker 5: These little deadly dramas are unfolding in every community across
Speaker 5: this country today. It's about control, it's about power, it's
Speaker 5: about possession. The warning signs.
Speaker 3: Were there everywhere.
Speaker 5: Here she is here, a loving memory of Carolyn joy Stucky.
Speaker 5: Presumably her ash is buck here.
Speaker 1: Why don't we go and visit the family home? This
Speaker 1: is the house where Carolyn died.
Speaker 5: The classic slice of Australian seventies suburbia, isn't it. It's
Speaker 5: on the ridge or the lip of the old Caldero
Speaker 5: Lismore sits in the middle of the top of that
Speaker 5: ancient volcano, so it's quite elevated, and.
Speaker 1: We think that Carolyn died sometime between nine and ten pm.
Speaker 1: He told the police that he asked Carolyn directly whether
Speaker 1: she was still seeing Alan in you, and she denied
Speaker 1: that she had, and he told her that he knew
Speaker 1: that was a lie.
Speaker 5: Carolyn and Allen then you were together hours before Carolyn
Speaker 5: was fatally shot by her husband, and she was lying
Speaker 5: on the bed still and she then admitted that she
Speaker 5: had and she said, I can't give him up.
Speaker 1: He then told the police that he raced to the
Speaker 1: study where he kept a rifle, a twenty two caliber
Speaker 1: and Shutz rifle Bold action. He had kept since he
Speaker 1: was nineteen years old. He used to use it to
Speaker 1: go and shoot rabbits. Hadn't used it for some time,
Speaker 1: but oddly it was loaded. I couldn't give him up.
Speaker 5: The moment that impelled him, a former country boy and
Speaker 5: local pharmacist, to go into the study find this loaded
Speaker 5: weapon and terminate his wife's life.
Speaker 1: Not too long after, alan Enny's own wife had killed
Speaker 1: herself in grief over the relationship that she discovered her
Speaker 1: husband was having with Carolyn.
Speaker 5: Human affairs are so complicated. Alan ennew who had made
Speaker 5: her so many promises about a vibrant and brilliant relationship
Speaker 5: in future, going forward together, and that night had ended.
Speaker 1: In that first interview in the Lismore police station between
Speaker 1: one am and three point thirty seven am, it's just
Speaker 1: a few hours after he has killed his wife in
Speaker 1: cold blood. He then describes having come back from the
Speaker 1: study into the bedroom holding the rifle. Carolyn sees him,
Speaker 1: and she screams, and he says that there's a struggle,
Speaker 1: and she tries to grab the gun and the shots
Speaker 1: are then fired. Carolyn was hit three times, once in
Speaker 1: the abdomen, twice in the head close range. He doesn't
Speaker 1: own his responsibility there, he doesn't say in that interview.
Speaker 1: And I pointed the gun at Carolyn and shot her
Speaker 1: in the abdomen, and then used the bolt action to
Speaker 1: put another bullet in the chamber, which I then fired
Speaker 1: into her brain. And then I did that again.
Speaker 5: The youngest Catherine in a bassinet in the actual parents'
Speaker 5: bedroom when this event occurred.
Speaker 1: You get the sense from the way he describes it
Speaker 1: that there's a struggle. Maybe she somehow pointed the gun
Speaker 1: in a way that she shot herself. There's no ownership
Speaker 1: by him of his actions.
Speaker 3: That's absolutely right.
Speaker 5: In the language that he uses, it's almost like he's there,
Speaker 5: but he's not there. Did you aim and fire at
Speaker 5: your wife? There is no affirmation of that from him
Speaker 5: at all. It's like this nebulous thing that sort of
Speaker 5: just happened. It moves, it slips around at those most
Speaker 5: lethal and crucial moments.
Speaker 1: Was he having trouble facing that reality himself then, or
Speaker 1: was he already starting to plan some kind of criminal defense.
Speaker 5: Is it possible that a man of such a meticulous
Speaker 5: mind might already be thinking into the future in terms
Speaker 5: of how he would justify what occurred? And he says
Speaker 5: and sort of shots went off, that's not possible. With
Speaker 5: the bold action. There's necessary time to reload, and it's
Speaker 5: a manu left it, isn't it. You have to hold
Speaker 5: the rifle and pull back the bolt.
Speaker 1: And then push it forward again to load the boat.
Speaker 1: He was asked whether he checked afterwards to see if
Speaker 1: there were signs of life in his wife. Did she
Speaker 1: have a pulse, But he said no, he didn't do that.
Speaker 1: He was quite sure she was dead. Alan Stuckey called
Speaker 1: his sister and she came to the house and she
Speaker 1: collected the three young children and took them away.
Speaker 3: He had a shower.
Speaker 1: He proceeded to change and apply his deodorant. After the
Speaker 1: shower and the third call, having wrung his sister and
Speaker 1: then his friend and said it's all over. I've killed Carolyn,
Speaker 1: was to the police. Now you just shudder at what
Speaker 1: confronted them. A husband who had just called them to
Speaker 1: an otherwise normal family home owned by a professional pharmacist
Speaker 1: in town, with a beautiful young wife, three lovely young children.
Speaker 5: And she was still laying at the foot of the
Speaker 5: matrimonial bed in their bedroom with two wounds to the
Speaker 5: head and one to the abdomen. Her body was still
Speaker 5: warm in that main bedroom.
Speaker 1: He's trembling and about to be led away for questioning
Speaker 1: for what was presumed then to be very obvious murder.
Speaker 5: He said in his evidence before the court that with
Speaker 5: his wife dead at the foot of the bed, he
Speaker 5: needed to take a shower to settle his mind so
Speaker 5: he could make a decision about what he would do next.
Speaker 5: It's revealing a man who lives by an incredibly routine
Speaker 5: stricture and has his patterns of behavior almost unbreakable. Despite
Speaker 5: this enormous tragic event that had been unleashed in the
Speaker 5: house that we're looking at.
Speaker 1: Caroline's unlawful killing at the hands of her husband should
Speaker 1: have been an open and shut case. Alan Stuckey's defense
Speaker 1: lawyer saw a pathway. He argued that Alan's wife's affair
Speaker 1: had provoked him into shooting her. Matthew Conden wrote a
Speaker 1: brilliant story about the case for The Weekend Australian magazine
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. He's a small but integral part of it.
Speaker 3: On July eleventh, nineteen eighty six, after a seven day trial,
Speaker 3: Alan James Stuckey was found not guilty of murder but
Speaker 3: guilty of manslaughter, the jury having decided that he caused
Speaker 3: Caroline's death under provocation. Justice Slattery said Stuckey's quote control
Speaker 3: of himself unquote ultimately snapped when told his wife could
Speaker 3: not give up her lover. The judge said, in the circumstances,
Speaker 3: some response on his part would not have been unreasonable,
Speaker 3: but he added that to shoot the deceased three times.
Speaker 6: Was greater than the circumstances warranted. It is rare to
Speaker 6: see a prisoner of such good character before a court
Speaker 6: on this type of crime. In a short period of time,
Speaker 6: the prisoner, by his acts under provocation, brought great tragedy
Speaker 6: to his wife, himself, and his children, a tragedy which
Speaker 6: will be with him forever.
Speaker 1: In the end, the defense strategy was successful. A jury
Speaker 1: effectively found that it was coar Olyn's fault that her husband,
Speaker 1: the accused, had snapped and killed her. Caroline's killer would
Speaker 1: face the lesser sentence for manslaughter. Justice slattery words and
Speaker 1: the juries not guilty verdict for murder are confronting to
Speaker 1: hear in twenty twenty five, when it is better understood
Speaker 1: that blaming the victim in cases of domestic violence wrongly
Speaker 1: removes responsibility from the perpetrator for his or her actions.
Speaker 1: Alan Stuckey was sentenced to eight years imprisonment, but he
Speaker 1: walked free on parole after three years. He returned to
Speaker 1: his job as a pharmacist in Lismore and to raising
Speaker 1: his three young children. One of those children, Catherine, shared
Speaker 1: her recollections with Matt of a troubled childhood in the
Speaker 1: same house where her dad had killed her mum.
Speaker 7: He used to say that she was socopathic and that
Speaker 7: I also had those traits because I wanted attention or
Speaker 7: something as an adult.
Speaker 2: I'm so outraged that he thought that.
Speaker 8: That would be a good idea to raise his children
Speaker 8: in a place where.
Speaker 7: He killed their mother. To me, that is such a
Speaker 7: cruel thing to do, and.
Speaker 1: I don't understand it at all, and it makes me
Speaker 1: incredibly sad. Before finalizing his own lengthy police statement, Glenn
Speaker 1: Taylor decided to try to find more witnesses, more evidence
Speaker 1: by drawing on the local media. John was against publicity
Speaker 1: from the start.
Speaker 2: He certainly was absolutely against having any media there. He
Speaker 2: didn't want in media, and we had to give him
Speaker 2: an undertaking that we would not contact the media under
Speaker 2: such time as we'd had exhausted our inquiries. Eventually we
Speaker 2: got to the stage we got a coroner's direction that
Speaker 2: said this has to go to the media. We need
Speaker 2: more people to come forward.
Speaker 1: While John remained staunchly opposed, Glenn Taylor went around him
Speaker 1: to Broman's brother, Andy Reid. Andy agreed to the strategy,
Speaker 1: and he wrote to Glenn I.
Speaker 9: Andrew Philip Reid, being the next of kin and brother
Speaker 9: of brom and Joy Winfield, give my full permission to
Speaker 9: the police Department and the coroner to use all available
Speaker 9: means at their disposal, including all forms of media such
Speaker 9: as newspaper, radio and television, to assist in investigation of
Speaker 9: the disappearance of my sister. I am deeply concerned about
Speaker 9: what has happened to my sister, as is the rest
Speaker 9: of my family, and we want everything humanly possible done
Speaker 9: to locate her and to find out what has happened
Speaker 9: to her.
Speaker 1: Stories began to appear in the Northern Star. The headline
Speaker 1: on one front page must have been confronting for Broman's
Speaker 1: friends and for John missing woman case reopened. Here's how
Speaker 1: that story by local reporter Jenny Rodgers began.
Speaker 7: Police need help in solving the baffling disappearance six years
Speaker 7: ago of a Lennox head woman, Bronwin Winfield. Now I
Speaker 7: would be thirty seven years old. She is one hundred
Speaker 7: and seventy six centimeters or five foot eight inches tall,
Speaker 7: of slim build, with light brown hair, a fair complexion
Speaker 7: and hazel eyes.
Speaker 2: I know I had a meeting interview prior to the
Speaker 2: inquest asking if anyone had him for the information.
Speaker 1: The recording is still in Glen's files, although the audio
Speaker 1: is a bit scratchy.
Speaker 7: Hopelly missing pertain K floor finally be solved after nine
Speaker 7: years exactical entertainment said miss at Winfield or drafting on
Speaker 7: the ninety at the sixteen of late nineteen ninety three
Speaker 7: after Sandstone Clason time.
Speaker 10: And then it's fair but if anyone has full in
Speaker 10: promotional all but I haven't some thought of now to
Speaker 10: contact the ball On employees will treat the information making confidence.
Speaker 2: Many years ago when I first became a detective in
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty five and the talk was please don't talk
Speaker 2: to the media, I think it has turned around a
Speaker 2: lot more so in recent years. Without the help of
Speaker 2: the media, a lot of cases would never be solved.
Speaker 1: Retired Sydney detective Damian Lehne attributes the role of the
Speaker 1: media with multiple breakthroughs during his investigations into the murder
Speaker 1: of Lynn Dawson now known as Lynn Simms. Damien did
Speaker 1: a remarkable job over some fifteen years is on that
Speaker 1: case since leaving the New South Wales Police He has
Speaker 1: lived in Ballina and he catches up with Glenn Taylor
Speaker 1: at the local bowls club. Damien is still giving back
Speaker 1: to the community. He has become a popular deputy mayor
Speaker 1: of the coastal town. In the late nineteen nineties and
Speaker 1: for another decade, Damien relied on journalists and their storytelling
Speaker 1: to attract witnesses who would give him statements and tip
Speaker 1: hops in a Northern Beaches police station about Lynn's disappearance.
Speaker 1: Damien had suspected fowl play from an early stage.
Speaker 8: There were very many police out there who were reluctant
Speaker 8: to speak to the media or corporate with them. The
Speaker 8: reason why, but such a responsible to the community. It's
Speaker 8: the fact I used the media. Without then no one
Speaker 8: would have known what was going on. No one would
Speaker 8: have known suddenly disappearing on the front page of the
Speaker 8: Many Dad in an Orthor Beaches and Bert he started
Speaker 8: rolling anders went on and on and on. Have you
Speaker 8: taken it in the teachers podcast? Well, we're back here again,
Speaker 8: as you say, under the similar circumstances have been awesome.
Speaker 1: On Monday May twenty seven, two thousand and two, friends
Speaker 1: and family of Bromwin Joy Winfield gathered at the Lismore
Speaker 1: Courthouse in search of answers about a woman who had
Speaker 1: not been seen or heard from for nine years. Janelle Estridge,
Speaker 1: then a young journalist completing her cadetship at the local newspaper,
Speaker 1: spoke to Detective Glenn Taylor and Bromin's brother Andy in
Speaker 1: the lead up to the inquest. Here's Janelle reading aloud
Speaker 1: her story in the Northern Star.
Speaker 11: Acting Inspector Taylor said it was hoped the five day
Speaker 11: hearing may bring some finality to what has been an
Speaker 11: exhaustive investigation.
Speaker 1: Janelle also spoke to Andy, and he's quoted in the
Speaker 1: newspaper story. It's been a long.
Speaker 11: Road for the family, but hopefully now we'll get to
Speaker 11: the bottom of the whole theme. We no longer believe
Speaker 11: that Bromwan is with us, but we do need some answers.
Speaker 11: This has taken a toll on everyone, but we just
Speaker 11: hope that the system works to resolve the matter in
Speaker 11: one way or another.
Speaker 1: Like the children of Carolyn and Alan Stuckey, Bromwan's children,
Speaker 1: Crystal and Lauren, were unaware of crucial details about their
Speaker 1: devoted mother's disappearance as the inquest approached, and as witnesses
Speaker 1: would tell the inquest. Some of this was due to
Speaker 1: their father, John, who strongly discouraged any talk or press
Speaker 1: about Bromwin. Voice actors and in some cases those who
Speaker 1: were present. Are going to recreate crucial evidence and exchanges
Speaker 1: in this and following episodes as we work through the
Speaker 1: two thousand and two inquest in the Lismore Courthouse, evidence
Speaker 1: like that of John's daughter Jody, who was called to
Speaker 1: the witness stand twice yes on day two and day four.
Speaker 12: Ma'am. I understand that at the time you were seventeen
Speaker 12: and that these things may not have rang alarm bells
Speaker 12: in your head. But looking back on it now, don't
Speaker 12: you think that it's strange the course of events that
Speaker 12: followed Bromlin's disappearance. At the time, I didn't question it because, yes,
Speaker 12: of my age.
Speaker 4: If it happened now and the age I am, yes,
Speaker 4: I would have had so many questions like everybody else does.
Speaker 12: But at that time I didn't because it I just didn't.
Speaker 1: And Romwin's cousin Megan Reid, giving evidence about seeing John
Speaker 1: in Sydney in the days after Bromwin disappeared.
Speaker 7: I've honestly never seen anything like it before he was shaking.
Speaker 7: He was practically frossing at the mouse.
Speaker 1: I was terrified and Crystal, who would give evidence? On
Speaker 1: the fourth day of the five day in quest, she
Speaker 1: was questioned gently by police Sergeant Matt Fordham. Here's a
Speaker 1: snippet of what Christie said, and just a reminder, Mark
Speaker 1: Davis is Crystal's biological father.
Speaker 12: Mark Davis said that you told him Bronwin had been
Speaker 12: diagnosed schizophrenic but didn't believe the doctors and didn't take
Speaker 12: her medication. Was that something that Bronwyn told you or
Speaker 12: did you hear it from some other source.
Speaker 9: No, that was what Jodie told me.
Speaker 1: We'll go into much more detail with Crystal's evidence and
Speaker 1: that of many others as the inquest reconstruction unfolds. We
Speaker 1: will be dedicating a lot of time to the inquest.
Speaker 1: By going through each day's transcript carefully, we are faithfully
Speaker 1: reproducing what we regard as the most relevant and interesting
Speaker 1: parts of the evidence. It will be unpacked in this
Speaker 1: and upcoming episodes chronologically, starting with the first day. You'll
Speaker 1: hear more from Crystal when we get to the fourth
Speaker 1: day of evidence. Let's now go to the beginning. D
Speaker 1: State Coroner for New South Wales, Karl Milavanovitch exuded authority.
Speaker 1: He had the undivided attention of his Lismore court room.
Speaker 1: From his reading of the statements before the inquest started,
Speaker 1: Karl was already very familiar with the brief of evidence.
Speaker 1: It would be presented over the ensuing days by lawyer
Speaker 1: and police officer Sergeant Matt Fordham. Matt is a barrister
Speaker 1: practicing in Sydney. These days, he takes an avid interest
Speaker 1: in the podcast investigations of cases in which he has
Speaker 1: been directly involved. One year after Bromwin's inquest, Matt Fordham
Speaker 1: would work with Karl again during the two thousand and
Speaker 1: three inquest into the presumed death of Lyn Dawson, now
Speaker 1: known as Lynn Simms. It's important to stress, as always
Speaker 1: for the record that John Winfield has always denied any
Speaker 1: involvement in Bromwin's disappearance. John Winfield was not on trial
Speaker 1: at the two thousand and two ines nobody was. An
Speaker 1: inquest is a fact finding mission. Affected parties are entitled
Speaker 1: to legal representation. John Winfield was legally supported by a
Speaker 1: determined barrister, Craig Leggett. Three years after Bromwin's inquest. He
Speaker 1: was appointed Senior Council, a prestigious position in the ranks
Speaker 1: of the New South Wales Bar and a testament to
Speaker 1: his skill as a lawyer. You are going to hear
Speaker 1: Craig's cross examination of witnesses throughout the inquest, much of
Speaker 1: it based on instructions from his client John.
Speaker 12: Sir, can you please tell us your full name, rank
Speaker 12: and station.
Speaker 2: My full name is Glenn William Taylor. I'm a detective sergeant,
Speaker 2: a police attached to ballin a police station.
Speaker 12: And sir, is it the case you prepared a one
Speaker 12: hundred and twenty page statement summarizing the investigation into the
Speaker 12: suspected death of bronwin Winfield. Is that correct?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 11: It is.
Speaker 1: On day one, Matt Fordham asked Glenn Taylor to read
Speaker 1: aloud his summary of his investigation into Bromman's suspected murder.
Speaker 1: The focus narrowed to just one man in court, John Winfield.
Speaker 1: It was the first time that the case, with all
Speaker 1: of its witnesses and alleged backs and circumstances, had been
Speaker 1: summarized in a public setting.
Speaker 2: Michelle Reid, missus Reed, states she became close friends with Bromwin.
Speaker 2: When Bromlin and Jonathan lived in Sydney. Missus Reed states
Speaker 2: that during the early part of nineteen ninety three, she
Speaker 2: had further telephone conversations with Bromin Winfield. Missus Reed recalled
Speaker 2: that during one of these conversations, Bromlan said to her
Speaker 2: words to the effect that if anything happened to her, Bromlin,
Speaker 2: which you look after the children. Missus Reed was off
Speaker 2: the book that Bromwin feared for her safety and inferred
Speaker 2: that Jonathan Winfield was capable of hurting her.
Speaker 1: Bromwin's uncle, John Reid, he.
Speaker 2: Recalls that during this time he was informed by Bromwin
Speaker 2: that Jonathan Winfield had been assaulting her and she showed
Speaker 2: mister Reed a bruce on her arm.
Speaker 1: Bromwin's auntie Leah Reid.
Speaker 2: Missus Leah Reid, the auntie of Bromwin Winfield, states that
Speaker 2: she would usually talk to Bromwin by telephone about once
Speaker 2: a week. Roman Winfield said something to the effect that
Speaker 2: she and others would be sorry and something would happen
Speaker 2: to change all of their lives.
Speaker 1: John's brother Peter Winfield, he recalls that.
Speaker 2: His brother Jonathan was worried that if he didn't go
Speaker 2: back to the Lennox Head home, that he would be
Speaker 2: locked out and it wouldn't be his home anymore. He
Speaker 2: recalled that Jonathan left his home to travel to Bwana.
Speaker 1: John's brother's wife, Louise Winfield.
Speaker 2: Missus Winfield, recalled that Jonathan has said something to the
Speaker 2: effect that he and Broman had a fight and that
Speaker 2: Bromwin had walked out Tracy Brown. Romwan disclosed to her
Speaker 2: that Jonathan Winfield had told her that there was no
Speaker 2: way that she was going to get the house. Roman
Speaker 2: also mentioned custody issues to Missus Brown concerning the children.
Speaker 2: Donald Apps attended Roman and Jonathan Winfield's wedding. In fact,
Speaker 2: mister Apps and his wife were the only persons that attended,
Speaker 2: states that he recalls on one occasion when Bromwin disclosed
Speaker 2: that Jonathan Winfield could become violent.
Speaker 1: Bromwin's sister, Kim Marshall, was asked about her contact with
Speaker 1: John when she spent ten days at the Winfield family
Speaker 1: home shortly after Broman's disappearance.
Speaker 2: Jonathan Winfield would become quite distant and would often cry
Speaker 2: whilst talking about her. Jonathan Winfield told Missus Marshall that
Speaker 2: he believed that Bromwin was having an affair with someone else.
Speaker 2: During this conversation, Jonathan Winfield told her that they didn't
Speaker 2: have a fight. On the night of the disappearance, Doreen
Speaker 2: Strong missus Strong, confirmed that she had spoken to Bromwin
Speaker 2: on second of April nineteen ninety three. Bromwin stated that
Speaker 2: she had left her husband ten days earlier. Broman stated
Speaker 2: that there had been emotional violence and threats relating to
Speaker 2: the custody of the children. Bromwin also stated that she
Speaker 2: had been to see a solicitor but needed some support.
Speaker 2: Missus Strong states that her conversation with Bromwin, there was
Speaker 2: no indication that Bromwin had any intention of leaving the children,
Speaker 2: and in fact intended to maintain sole custody of the children.
Speaker 1: John's first wife, Jenny Mason.
Speaker 2: Missus Mason, states that when she was about sixteen years
Speaker 2: of age, she met John Winfield in Sydney and formed
Speaker 2: a relationship with him. Missus Mason states that she had
Speaker 2: only been going out about three months with him when
Speaker 2: she felt pregnant. Missus Mason stated that she married John
Speaker 2: Winfield and they lived together at Sutherland. Mister Wingfield never
Speaker 2: allowed Missus Mason to argue back with him or question
Speaker 2: what he would say. If she attempted to, mister Winfield
Speaker 2: would get aggressive and angry. He would yell at Missus
Speaker 2: Mason and she became scared of him. He said to her,
Speaker 2: I'll kill you if you say it again. At that time,
Speaker 2: he had his hands around her throat and was squeezing.
Speaker 2: Missus Mason believed that something happened to Bromwin on the
Speaker 2: night before John turned up to her home with the children.
Speaker 1: There were claims about John's personality, his temper, and his
Speaker 1: demands for a perfectly ordered and clean house, such as
Speaker 1: from Bromwin's neighbor Debbie Hall.
Speaker 2: Missus Hall found out that Bromwin's marriage was not a
Speaker 2: happy one. Missus Hall asked mister Winfield what had happened
Speaker 2: to Bromwin. Mister Winfield replied, she wasn't happy to see
Speaker 2: me there. I went in, We had dinner together and
Speaker 2: then put the kids to bed. After that, we had
Speaker 2: a bit of an argument and she threw her hands
Speaker 2: up in the air and told me that she needed
Speaker 2: a break. She went into the bedroom and made a
Speaker 2: phone call, and about fifteen minutes later, a person came
Speaker 2: and picked her up. Mister Winfield told Hall that he
Speaker 2: did not know who broman had gone with and did
Speaker 2: not look out the front.
Speaker 1: And Jane Johnston.
Speaker 2: During telephone conversations, Bromwin informed missus Johnston that she was
Speaker 2: arguing with Jonathan Winfield. Bromwan confided that she was scared
Speaker 2: of john and worried that he would hit her. Romwin
Speaker 2: told her of an incident where Jonathan had her backed
Speaker 2: up against the kitchen cabinets and had raised his hand.
Speaker 1: The detective told the coroner that Bromwin's eldest daughter took
Speaker 1: it upon herself to walk to the police station to
Speaker 1: see Glenn one day. The sixteen year old was prompted
Speaker 1: by an article that Glenn had helped place in the
Speaker 1: local media. Cristel was gently asked to return the next
Speaker 1: day with an adult so that a statement could be
Speaker 1: taken at the police station.
Speaker 2: At that time, Cristel did not want her father to
Speaker 2: know that she was attending the police station and did
Speaker 2: not want the police to notify mister Winfield that she
Speaker 2: wanted to be spoken to him. Crystal recalls an argument
Speaker 2: between her mother and father where her father struck her
Speaker 2: mother across the face with an open hand. Crystal states
Speaker 2: that her father would also lose control of his temper
Speaker 2: with her and Lauren. On one occasion, Crystal recalls being
Speaker 2: thrown against the wall by her father.
Speaker 1: Witnesses told Glenn Taylor of John's alleged desire, stated and
Speaker 1: implied that he did not want to lose his home
Speaker 1: in Sandstone Crescent as part of any separation from Bromwin.
Speaker 1: John's daughter Jodi.
Speaker 2: Jonathan Winfield told her that Bromwin needed a break from
Speaker 2: the children and had gone away for two weeks. Her
Speaker 2: father related that Bromwin had made a telephone call and
Speaker 2: a car pulled up out in the front of the
Speaker 2: house in Lennox Said, and he heard Bromwyn leave.
Speaker 1: The detective raised John's suggestion that Bromwin suffered from a
Speaker 1: mental illness and had copied the actions of her mother,
Speaker 1: Barbara in abandoning her children.
Speaker 2: Mister Winfield states that he believes his wife is alive
Speaker 2: and may have suffered some form of mental illness.
Speaker 1: The coroner heard about John's suggestion to numerous witnesses that
Speaker 1: Bromwin was alive. How clothes and genes that went missing
Speaker 1: from Sandstone Crescent were a proof of life.
Speaker 2: Mister Winfield claimed that his wife must have returned to
Speaker 2: the family home at some stage after that evening, as
Speaker 2: he found clothes missing and the medicare check on the table.
Speaker 1: John's furnishing of a receipt for the purchase of fuel
Speaker 1: at the Amphole service station at eleven o six pm
Speaker 1: on the sixteenth of May nineteen ninety three was cited too,
Speaker 1: and finally repeatedly. Glenn Taylor conveyed the insistence from more
Speaker 1: than a dozen people who knew Bromwin and who said
Speaker 1: that the devoted mother would never have left her children.
Speaker 1: Here are their words from their police statements, read aloud
Speaker 1: by voice actors, and this is not an exhaustive sample.
Speaker 13: Shirley Taylor, I find it extremely hard to believe that
Speaker 13: Bromwin would leave the children behind if she were to
Speaker 13: go anywhere. I found her to be a most devoted
Speaker 13: mother who was very attached to her children.
Speaker 14: Alan Fisher, Bromwyn appeared to be very devoted mother. I
Speaker 14: did notice that she kept a very watchful eye on
Speaker 14: her two children. Bromwin was not the type to leave
Speaker 14: her kids for even five minutes.
Speaker 15: Peter Shanahan, I have observed Brodwin with her two girls,
Speaker 15: Kristall and Lauren, and I would describe Bronwyn as a
Speaker 15: very good mother. For her to leave her girls and
Speaker 15: not make contact is not the Bronwin that I knew.
Speaker 15: In my opinion, there is no way that Bromwin would
Speaker 15: have left her go.
Speaker 4: Maria Glewis, I would describe Bronwin as a very caring
Speaker 4: mother and her children's interests always came first. I spent
Speaker 4: a lot of time with her just prior to her disappearance,
Speaker 4: and I formed the opinion that she would do anything
Speaker 4: to stop John getting custody of the children. And I
Speaker 4: find it extremely hard to believe that she would go
Speaker 4: on a holiday and not come back and leave the
Speaker 4: children with John as he has purported.
Speaker 1: Glenn Taylor outlined for those in the courtroom when his
Speaker 1: involvement in Broman's case first started. The detective described to
Speaker 1: the coroner how Andy and Michelle's inquiry was a catalyst
Speaker 1: for a review of documents into the original nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: three police investigation by Graham Diskin.
Speaker 2: This reinvestigation was given the operational name of Lumberton. Operational
Speaker 2: orders dated twenty seventh July nineteen ninety eight were prepared.
Speaker 1: Glenn provided some background information about bronwin and her previous relationship,
Speaker 1: and then Glenn started detailing his first contact with the
Speaker 1: last person to see her alive.
Speaker 2: Mister Winfield attended the ballon Of police station on fifth
Speaker 2: of August nineteen ninety eight, where he agreed to participate
Speaker 2: in an electronically recorded interview. Mister Winfield had not formed
Speaker 2: an opinion of what may have happened to his wife, However,
Speaker 2: he believed that she was alive, possibly under another identity.
Speaker 1: Glenn raised a phone call John Winfield had made. As
Speaker 1: the police investigation gathered momentum, with witnesses being visited in
Speaker 1: Lennoxhead and Ballina and farther south in Sydney and the.
Speaker 2: Shire, mister Winfield stated that his wife would one day
Speaker 2: walk back as if nothing had happened. Mister Winfield stated quote,
Speaker 2: she's probably with some rich sugar daddy on over. Mister
Speaker 2: Winfield refused to allow police to speak to Crystal or
Speaker 2: Lauren concerning their mother's disappearance. The proposed media release was
Speaker 2: delayed for a long period of time due to mister
Speaker 2: Winfield's strong objections. Details of the disappearance were released to
Speaker 2: the print and television media.
Speaker 1: The media releases included that front page article in the
Speaker 1: Northern Star newspaper dated July tenth, nineteen ninety nine. The
Speaker 1: detective told the coroner that there had been.
Speaker 2: A canvas of all business premises in Lennoxhead and selected
Speaker 2: business premises in Ballener with flier and photograph of the
Speaker 2: missing person, a publication in the Police Service Weekly authorizing
Speaker 2: a public display of the missing person at all police
Speaker 2: stations in the state.
Speaker 1: Glenn began listing the transactions and total balance of Bromban's
Speaker 1: day to day bank account leading up to her disappearance
Speaker 1: on May sixteen. There had been no activity on this
Speaker 1: account in the years since, and Glenn summarized the witness
Speaker 1: statement of Shirley Taylor, no relation the landlady at Byron Street,
Speaker 1: where Bromin lived in a flat in nineteen ninety three,
Speaker 1: before returning to the family home on the afternoon of Friday,
Speaker 1: May fourteen.
Speaker 2: Missus Taylor states that at a later time she was
Speaker 2: cleaning the townhouse that had been vacated by bromwin Winfield.
Speaker 2: Missus Taylor states that she located a cane jewelry box on.
Speaker 1: Top of a wardrobe.
Speaker 2: Inside the jury box was a brown ring case which
Speaker 2: contained a gold chain with a tourist megallion, a further
Speaker 2: gold chain, a heart shaped pendit with a diamond in
Speaker 2: the center, one nine carrot gold wedding band, one gold
Speaker 2: engagement ring with eight diamonds surrounding a larger diamond in
Speaker 2: the center, and a gold pendant containing an opal surrounded
Speaker 2: by fourteen diamonds. Also in the jewelry box was a
Speaker 2: thick chain, gold bracelet, a pink heart shaped soap, and
Speaker 2: a red and white dice.
Speaker 1: As you heard, the gold chain had a medallion with
Speaker 1: the star sign of Taurus. Roman was born on April
Speaker 1: twenty four. She was a Taurus Broman had left all
Speaker 1: of this behind, along with the funds in her bank account.
Speaker 12: Do you want to have a break, sergeant, You must
Speaker 12: be getting a bit dry on the throat.
Speaker 2: If you like your worship.
Speaker 1: One thing that did not come out during the first
Speaker 1: and subsequent days of the inquest was the fact that
Speaker 1: this was Glenn Taylor's last official duty as a police officer.
Speaker 1: Two decades as a detective on constant call out to
Speaker 1: serious crime scenes had taken its toll on Glenn's mental health.
Speaker 1: Here's Glenn now reflecting on that period.
Speaker 2: My doctor recommended that it was probably time that I ceased,
Speaker 2: so I was off on sick leave. And then while
Speaker 2: I was on sick leave, was announced that they set
Speaker 2: a date for the coroner's inquest. I'd already made up
Speaker 2: my mind. There's absolutely no way I would ever let
Speaker 2: the Reed family down. I went to see my doctor
Speaker 2: and brought myself off sick leaves, especially so I could
Speaker 2: attend the inquest for that week. The last day of
Speaker 2: the inquest in two thousand and two, on the Friday,
Speaker 2: was my last day I actually worked in the police.
Speaker 1: Glenn Taylor finished his statement with a summary of the
Speaker 1: entire case and his view of what had happened to Brommin.
Speaker 2: I would submit there is overwhelming, circumstantial evidence to suggest
Speaker 2: that the missing person, Bromin Joy Winfield, is in fact deceased.
Speaker 2: The missing person separated from her husband in March nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety three after a period of being involved in an
Speaker 2: unhappy relationship. The missing person had engaged mister Mannering, a
Speaker 2: local solicitor, and later mister mcdebitt, a solicitor from Lismore.
Speaker 2: Missus Winfield had instructed mister mcdebitt that her marriage was
Speaker 2: at an end and there was no hopeful reconcipation. Mister
Speaker 2: mcdebitt rode to mister Wingfield regarding property settlements and took
Speaker 2: instructions regarding custody of the children, Crystal and Lauren. The
Speaker 2: missing person spoke to her neighbor, Missus Debbie Hall, late
Speaker 2: on the afternoon of Sunday, sixteenth May nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 2: At those days did Missus Wingfield disclose that she intended
Speaker 2: to have a break from the children. In fact, she
Speaker 2: told Missus Hall she had a busy week ahead and
Speaker 2: had to get the children off to school the following morning.
Speaker 2: There is ample evidence of violable from witnesses that the
Speaker 2: missing person was in fear of the consequences when her
Speaker 2: husband found out that she had moved back into the
Speaker 2: family home, Mister Wingfield immediately arranged to travel by aircraft
Speaker 2: back to Ballona to travel to the family home. Witnesses
Speaker 2: interviewed have indicated that mister Wingfield had stated that there
Speaker 2: was no way he his wife was going to get
Speaker 2: possession of the house. He had used words to the
Speaker 2: effect quote, I've already lost two houses before and I'm
Speaker 2: not going to lose another one. Mister Winfil arrived in
Speaker 2: Ballener at about six point thirty pm and was picked
Speaker 2: up by mister John Watson at the airport.
Speaker 1: As we've explained in previous episodes, John said that when
Speaker 1: he arrived in Balliner it was dark. The schedule four
Speaker 1: Ansett Airlines showed that the get from Sydney was due
Speaker 1: to land at seven twenty five pm. It was not
Speaker 1: known to Glenn Taylor or Matt Fordham at the time
Speaker 1: of the inquest that John's timeline of events did not work.
Speaker 1: Glenn was aware that John Watson had collected John Winfield
Speaker 1: from Balliner Airport on that fateful Sunday evening.
Speaker 2: He then attended the Balloner police station to check if
Speaker 2: there was any apprehended domestic violence orders in place that
Speaker 2: would prevent him from attendant Sandstone Crescent Lennox Head. Mister
Speaker 2: Winfield then traveled to the family home, picking up his
Speaker 2: daughter's schoolfriend, Rebecca McGuire on the way. Upon arrival, he
Speaker 2: knocked on the door and was met by the missing
Speaker 2: person Bromwin Winfield and the children. Miss McGuire recalls that
Speaker 2: there were two suitcases near the entrance to the doorway.
Speaker 2: Miss McGuire observed mister Winfield to take these suitcases and
Speaker 2: put them into the white Ford sedan.
Speaker 1: The detective suggested what many listeners to this podcast have
Speaker 1: also speculated, bromwin had obviously packed John's clothes into suitcases,
Speaker 1: which she put near the front door, presumably so that
Speaker 1: he could take those away and be gone with a
Speaker 1: minimum of fuss.
Speaker 2: However, mister Winfield makes no reference to the suitcases when interview.
Speaker 2: It would appear that mister winfil Field returned to sixty
Speaker 2: Sandstone Crescent, lannox Head after dropping off Rebecca maguire. Exactly
Speaker 2: what then happened inside sixty Sandstone Crescent, lenox Head is unknown.
Speaker 1: Referring to John's nineteen ninety eight recorded interview in the
Speaker 1: ballon a police station, the detective said.
Speaker 2: Mister Winfield has maintained that he and his wife sat
Speaker 2: down at the table discussing their marriage. He claims that
Speaker 2: his wife made a decision that she needed a break
Speaker 2: from the children and then went and made a telephone
Speaker 2: call to an unknown person. Mister Winfield then claims that
Speaker 2: his wife left via the front door after he heard
Speaker 2: a motor vehicle pull up out the front. Mister Winfield
Speaker 2: states that he did not investigate who was driving this
Speaker 2: unknown vehicle. Mister Winfield then claims that he then made
Speaker 2: a decision to return to Sydney, immediately, taking the children
Speaker 2: with him. He is unable to satisfactorily explain the urgency
Speaker 2: for him to travel to Sydney, except to say that
Speaker 2: the children traveled better at night.
Speaker 1: To be fair to John, however, it isn't obvious from
Speaker 1: the transcript of John's police interview in nineteen ninety eight
Speaker 1: that he was pressed on this point, Why did you
Speaker 1: just up and leave like that? How did that make
Speaker 1: any sense? John was a witness of few words in
Speaker 1: that police interview. He was not the sort of witness
Speaker 1: who would start sharing information in anticipation of a question.
Speaker 1: He would not give long answers. If not pressed, he
Speaker 1: just didn't say.
Speaker 2: Mister Wingfold claims that he went immediately to the Amphile
Speaker 2: Pied Piper, where he fuelled the vehicle at eleven oh
Speaker 2: six pm that night. It appears obvious that he felt
Speaker 2: the need to retain the receipt. It would appear that
Speaker 2: three days later, on the nineteenth of May nineteen ninety three,
Speaker 2: on the insistence of mister Andrew Reid, the brother of
Speaker 2: the missing person, that mister Winfield contacted mister Nolan and
Speaker 2: arranged to having break into the family home to check
Speaker 2: on the welfare of missus Winfield. Mister Nolan and mister Hargrave,
Speaker 2: the neighbors of the Winfields, forced entry to the house,
Speaker 2: but found no sign of the missing person. Mister Winfield
Speaker 2: has claimed throughout the entire investigation that his wife ran
Speaker 2: off somewhere or with someone. Witnesses have all said that
Speaker 2: she was a very good, devoted mother who lived for
Speaker 2: her children. It would appear totally against her character that
Speaker 2: she would have left the children for good, let alone
Speaker 2: for two weeks without telling them her intention to have
Speaker 2: a break. This investigation appears to have raised more unsold
Speaker 2: questions then it has provided answers.
Speaker 1: The detective sergeant then asked a number of questions which
Speaker 1: he said cried out for definitive answers.
Speaker 2: Why would Jonathan Winfield bring all of his clothing and
Speaker 2: his surfboard back on the plane and then immediately return
Speaker 2: to Sydney in the family vehicle. Surely it would have
Speaker 2: been easy to bring his property back in the family
Speaker 2: car at a later time. Why didn't Bromwin Winfield just
Speaker 2: take the family car if she wanted to leave the house.
Speaker 2: Up until that night, Bromwin had maintained sole possession of
Speaker 2: the family vehicle. Why would the missing person have the
Speaker 2: locks to the family home changed and then let her
Speaker 2: husband remain in the house on the night of sixteenth
Speaker 2: of May nineteen ninety three when she allegedly left of
Speaker 2: her own free will. Why did Jonathan Winfield back the
Speaker 2: car out of the driveway and down the hill with
Speaker 2: the lights to the vehicle being turned on. Bromwyn Winfield
Speaker 2: had informed missus Tracy Brown that she was scared of
Speaker 2: her husband coming back to the house to try to
Speaker 2: get her out. Why would Bromwin so easily give up
Speaker 2: possession of the house after having the locks change. Jonathan
Speaker 2: Winfield makes no mention of obtaining the new keys to
Speaker 2: the house from Bromwin. What happened to Bromwin's keys to
Speaker 2: the house? Did she or rather why would she supply
Speaker 2: them to her husband before leaving the house.
Speaker 1: Glenn Taylor raised the solid plans of Kim Marshall in
Speaker 1: Tasmania to come and stay with her sister Bromwin in
Speaker 1: Lennox head. They had been talking about it on the
Speaker 1: telephone four weeks in advance.
Speaker 2: Why didn't Bromwin contact to inform her that she was
Speaker 2: having a break from the house and the children. Why
Speaker 2: did the missing person suddenly cease contact with Meaghan Reed?
Speaker 2: They apparently used to contact each other on a daily basis.
Speaker 2: In fact, why did the missing person not seek contact
Speaker 2: with all of her friends? The missing person had told
Speaker 2: her stepdaughter jad that Jonathan Winfield was not welcome back
Speaker 2: at the family home, and she intended to get a
Speaker 2: restraining order to prevent him from coming to the house.
Speaker 2: Why would she then leave the house and allow mister
Speaker 2: Winfield to stay. Jonathan Winfield told his daughter Jadie that
Speaker 2: Bromwin had gone away for two weeks as she had
Speaker 2: had enough. If this is a situation, why didn't she
Speaker 2: the missing person let her employer know, cancel her appointment
Speaker 2: with the solicitor, or let any of her friends know.
Speaker 2: Why didn't the missing person return to the rended flat
Speaker 2: and collect valuable and personal property left at that location. Additionally,
Speaker 2: why wouldn't Bromwin return the keys to the rented unit
Speaker 2: make a claim for bond money that she paid?
Speaker 1: Glenn Taylor said he had interviewed friends of Bromin who
Speaker 1: said they were told by John that his estranged wife.
Speaker 2: Had left on a planned trip to have a break
Speaker 2: for a week or two from the children. This appears
Speaker 2: totally at odds in that Bromwin was seeking sole custody
Speaker 2: of the children.
Speaker 1: The detective then raised John's employment at that time with
Speaker 1: Glen Webster, the builder in the shire south of Sydney.
Speaker 1: You'll recall that John was helping Glen build a house
Speaker 1: in Illawan before and after Broman's disappearance.
Speaker 2: Why didn't Jonathan Winfield inform mister Glenn Webster that he
Speaker 2: was going to travel back to Lennox Head. At this time,
Speaker 2: Jonathan Winfield was in the middle of a job at
Speaker 2: mister Webster's house. Why did Jonathan Winfield tell Rebecca McGuire
Speaker 2: that he needed someone to be present whilst he picked
Speaker 2: up clos from the family home. Why were the sitcases
Speaker 2: near the front door of the family home. When Jonathan
Speaker 2: Winfield returned from Sydney, had Brohman packed his clothes for
Speaker 2: him with the intention of not coming back to the house.
Speaker 2: Why doesn't mister Winfield recall this when he was interviewed.
Speaker 2: Why did Jonathan Winfield feel the need to retain the
Speaker 2: receipt regarding the purchase of the fuel at the Airpole
Speaker 2: Pied Piper service station on the evening of sixteenth or
Speaker 2: May nineteen ninety three. Why has he kept that receipt
Speaker 2: in his possession since that time? Why hasn't Bromwin touched
Speaker 2: any of her bank accounts since fourteenth of May nine
Speaker 2: ninety three. Mister Winfield has claimed that his wife must
Speaker 2: have returned back to the house and left a signed
Speaker 2: Medicare check on the table and taken clothes, including a
Speaker 2: pair of his genes. Why wouldn't a missing person tried
Speaker 2: to contact her children? Why didn't anyone see Bromwin back
Speaker 2: at the house? Where had Bromwin been for the previous
Speaker 2: few weeks? What money was she using to live on?
Speaker 2: Bromwin had taken no clothing when she left, Where would
Speaker 2: she have got clothes to wear?
Speaker 1: Each question from Glen Taylor was laden with the inference
Speaker 1: of suspicion and foul play. He narrated a lengthy list
Speaker 1: in the courtroom that day. We have not included all
Speaker 1: of Glen Taylor's questions from the witness stand sitting in
Speaker 1: the courtroom Bromman's brother Andy and his wife Michelle, believed
Speaker 1: they knew why most of Glenn's questions were unanswerable by John,
Speaker 1: and John had no intention of giving evidence himself. Andy
Speaker 1: and Michelle already saw their brother in law as a
Speaker 1: cold blooded killer. Several of Broman's friends, watching the evidence unfold,
Speaker 1: were of the same mind.
Speaker 2: At the completion of the investigation, there appears that there
Speaker 2: can only be two possible scenarios as to what has
Speaker 2: happened to bromwin Winfield. A Missus Winfield has left of
Speaker 2: her own accord and is living somewhere else in Australia
Speaker 2: or elsewhere under a different name, a different identity. This
Speaker 2: is what Jonathan Winfield suggests, or b Missus Winfield is deceased.
Speaker 2: After taking it into account all of the vilable evidence,
Speaker 2: I would submit that the evidence would suggest, at least
Speaker 2: on the balance of probabilities, that Missus Winfield is in
Speaker 2: fact deceased.
Speaker 1: It was now time for John's defense lawyer, Craig Leggett
Speaker 1: to speak up. I object to the next bit, Coroner.
Speaker 11: I'm not sure that you will be assisted by the
Speaker 11: next paragraph.
Speaker 7: Well, it's the view of the investigator. It's an opinion
Speaker 7: he's entitled to excit express.
Speaker 1: The detective was given permission to keep going and to
Speaker 1: express in court the point that John's lawyer did not
Speaker 1: want ventilated.
Speaker 2: If the coroner comes to the conclusion that Bromin Winfield
Speaker 2: is deceased, I would submit that there is very strong
Speaker 2: circumstantial evidence that a known person, namely Jonathan Winfield, is
Speaker 2: responsible for her death. I would urge that consideration be
Speaker 2: given that the coronial brief be referred to the Office
Speaker 2: of the Director of Public Prosecutions to consider if criminal
Speaker 2: charges should be laid against Jonathan Winfield in connection with
Speaker 2: the suspected.
Speaker 1: Death of Brommein Winfield.
Speaker 12: Thank you, Detective.
Speaker 1: When Glenn Taylor had finished reading out his lengthy summary,
Speaker 1: it was mid afternoon in the Lismore Courthouse, but the
Speaker 1: most important evidence of day one it was still to come.
Speaker 1: Bronwyn is written and investigated by me Headley Thomas as
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