Pensioner is found GUILTY of murdering pregnant teenage prostitute, 16, after meeting her for sex
- Rodney Wayne Williams, 65, picked up Tiffany Taylor, 16, from a Brisbane motel
- They drove into an industrial area where ‘something happened’ on July 12, 2015
- Traces of Ms Taylor’s blood were found inside William’s Hyundai sedan
A Queensland man who agreed to pay pregnant teen prostitute Tiffany Taylor for sex on the day she disappeared has been found guilty of her murder.
Rodney Wayne Williams, 65, picked the 16-year-old up from a Logan motel on July 12, 2015, after meeting her on the Oasis dating website.
The pair drove to an isolated industrial area where ‘something happened’, his Brisbane Supreme Court trial heard.
Rodney Wayne Williams, 65, picked up 16-year-old Tiffany Taylor (pictured) from a Logan motel on July 12, 2015, after meeting her on the Oasis dating website
The pair drove to an isolated industrial area where ‘something happened’, his Brisbane Supreme Court trial heard (pictured: Rodney Wayne Williams)
Traces of Ms Taylor’s blood were found in Williams’ Hyundai sedan, prosecutor Philip McCarthy QC told the jury during the three-and a-half-week trial.
‘On the glove box, on the headrest of the passenger seat … on the front passenger seat, on the gear stick,’ he said.
Williams’ car was then spotted in the Fernvale area, west of Brisbane, where police have since searched dams and bushland for Ms Taylor’s body without success.
The jury was shown a series of messages between Williams and Ms Taylor where he offered her $500, the ABC reported.
Ms Taylor regularly used the Oasis dating website to meet men for paid sex.
Traces of Ms Taylor’s blood were found in Williams’ Hyundai sedan, prosecutor Philip McCarthy QC told the jury during the three-and a-half-week trial
Williams pleaded not guilty to her murder but a jury on Friday found him guilty of intentionally killing the teen
During his closing address, Mr McCarthy said Williams sent Ms Taylor a message several hours after he met her to try and cover his tracks.
‘Sorry I didn’t turn up. Decided I wasn’t going to pay for it,’ the message read.
‘The first thing he’s done is to create a false digital footprint, a false digital trail denying any physical contact with that girl,’ Mr McCarthy told the court.
‘A pretence to the world that he’d never met her. A pretence to the world that he thinks she’s still alive.
Williams pleaded not guilty to her murder but a jury on Friday found him guilty of intentionally killing the teen.
Justice Anne Lyons is expected to sentence him later on Friday.