A day after fraudster Melissa Caddick vanished her husband was suspected of being involved in her mysterious disappearance, her inquest has been told.
Louise Coleman, junior counsel assisting the inquest, said on Monday that three police officers who took Anthony Koletti’s missing person’s report held concerns about the accounts he provided.
Sergeant Trent Riley wrote in July 2021 that Mr Koletti told him ‘several lies, (and) that his story had changed multiple times’.
Mr Koletti is due to give evidence at his wife’s inquest and was present at the NSW Coroners Court in Lidcombe as well as parents her Barbara and Ted Grimley and brother Adam Grimley.
An expert report examining barnacles growth on Ms Caddick’s washed-up shoe concluded it spent no more than one week, and no less than two-three days floating in the ocean, the inquest was told.
A day after fraudster Melissa Caddick vanished her husband Anthony Koletti was suspected of being involved in her mysterious disappearance, her inquest has been told
An expert report examining barnacles growth on Ms Caddick’s washed-up shoe (pictured) concluded it spent no more than one week, and no less than two-three days floating in the ocean, the inquest was told
While Ms Caddick is suspected to be dead, a forensic pathologist could not determine whether her foot was separated due to blunt force, sharp force or decomposition before it washed ashore at Bournda Beach on the state’s south coast.
But it is ‘very unlikely that Ms Caddick amputated her own foot’, with or without the assistance of a non-medically trained individual, to stage her disappearance, Ms Coleman told Deputy State Coroner Elizabeth Ryan.
Other areas to be explored include her diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder and some criticism of the NSW police investigation.
A crime scene was not established until 19 days after she was reported missing.
The Australian Federal Police and Australian Securities and Investments Commission raided her Dover Heights home in Sydney’s eastern suburbs on November 11, 2020.
That was the last verified sighting of Ms Caddick.
Some 28 hours after Mr Koletti says his wife left the house to go for a walk or jog he reported her missing to police.
Husband of Melissa Caddick, Anthony Koletti arrives for the inquest into the death of Sydney fraudster Melissa Caddick at the Lidcombe Coroners Court in Sydney, Monday, September 12
Financial adviser Melissa Caddick is pictured with her husband Anthony Koletti in Aspen, Colorado, during a ski trip
Attending officers found Mr Koletti on November 13 in a ‘composed, relaxed and seemingly uncaring persona … unlike any other person I had taken a missing person report from previously’.
Ms Caddick’s mother says her daughter was not offered food or drink during the full duration of the search warrant and holds ASIC responsible for her suspected death, the inquest was told.
But this has been disputed as Ms Caddick at the time was not under arrest, allowed to walk freely and leave if she wished, not observed to be showing any signs of mental ill-health, and did make herself a protein shake in the morning.
In late 2012 Ms Caddick’s marriage to Tony Caddick dissolved following her affair with Mr Koletti who was her hairdresser.
She purportedly referred to a Sydney suicide spot when telling her brother Adam about this time: ‘If it all gets too much for me you’ll find me at The Gap’.
Caddick is pictured during the ASIC-AFP raid on her Dover Heights home on November 11
Koletti is pictured with his $300,000 Audi R8 at McMahon’s Point on Sydney’s lower north shore
Another friend said Ms Caddick made her write down a four-letter code she was instructed to give Adam if she went missing.
By late 2020 her friends say Ms Caddick was under extreme financial pressure and on one occasion walked to the Dover Heights cliffs.
‘If I’m going to end it, it’s going to be here,’ her friend recalls Ms Caddick telling her.
Her victims, mostly family and friends, lost $20-$30 million through her Ponzi scheme used to fund her lavish lifestyle and excessive spending on expensive jewellery, designer clothing, overseas getaways and multi-million dollar homes.
Her clients believed she would invest their life savings on their behalf and she created fake documents to suggest she had done so.
Whether Ms Caddick knew about the ASIC investigation will also be scrutinised, as she booked shredding services in September 2020, three months before she vanished.
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