Drug dealer who hid mother’s corpse in her cupboard after killing her in a row over heroin used dead woman’s credit cards before BURNING her body at the side of a road
- Rachel Wheatley killed a Queensland mother kept the body in a cupboard
- She then took the body, dumped it and burned the corpse on the side of the road
- Wheatley used woman’s money, cards and driver’s licence before dumping body
Rachel Angala Wheatley pleaded guilty to the manslaugher of Sabrina Bremer (pictured) in 2016
A woman who killed a Queensland mother kept the body in a cupboard before taking it to northern NSW and setting it alight on the side of a road.
Killer Rachel Angala Wheatley even offered Sabrina Bremer’s 15-year-old daughter help to find her mother while the corpse was still in her cupboard, the Brisbane Supreme Court heard on Monday.
Wheatley, 30, and Joshua Mundy, 31, are being sentenced on Monday after pleading guilty last month to offences relating to the manslaughter of Ms Bremer, 34, in August 2016.
Wheatley admitted manslaughter and interfering with Ms Bremer’s corpse. Mundy admitted interfering with a corpse and being an accessory after the killing of Ms Bremer.
There was ‘evidence of animosity’ between Wheatley and Ms Bremer in text messages before the killing, crown prosecutor Jodie Wooldridge told the court on Monday.
Ms Wooldridge said Ms Bremer appeared to be disgruntled over money she was owed by Wheatley for heroin.
During an altercation Wheatley restrained Ms Bremer who stopped breathing, according to Wheatley.
She woke Mundy, who was upstairs in the unit, and the two dragged Ms Bremer’s body to the cupboard.
Ms Wooldridge said Wheatley’s children and visitors had been at the house while the corpse was hidden away.
Wheatley hid Ms Bremer’s (pictured) body in a cupboard before taking the body, dumping it and burning the corpse on the side of the road
Wheatley used Ms Bremer’s money, bank card and driver’s licence before borrowing a vehicle to dispose of the body.
Wheatley and Mundy drove to Pollards Road, North Tumbulgum, on August 18, 2016 where they put the body wrapped in blanket on the ground, doused it with fuel and set it alight.
Ms Wooldridge said the cause of death was not clear because the body was so decomposed.
‘It was not immediately apparent to those who located (the body) that it was human remains,’ she told the court.
The sentencing continues.
Wheatley used Ms Bremer’s (pictured) money, bank card and driver’s licence before borrowing a vehicle to dispose of the body