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His estranged partner Joanna Green, who had just left Benbow and started seeing McGrath, emerged as a key witness in the high-profile trial and subsequent retrial. Kurt Bayer reports on a love ...
Oct 13, 2023 · No body or weapon has ever been found. His estranged partner Joanna Green, who had just left Benbow and started seeing McGrath, emerged as a key witness in the high-profile trial and subsequent retrial. Kurt Bayer reports on a love triangle that ended in murder. The day she thought “this is it” and finally moved out, Joanna Green rang Mike.
The cross examination of Joanna Green is continuing into its third day. The defence case is that her pointing the finger at her ex early on shaped the police investigation and resulted in "tunnel vision". Benbow is accused of killing his friend Michael McGrath after discovering he was seeing his former partner Green.
Feb 17, 2023 · The Crown alleges he lured McGrath to his semi-rural lifestyle property in Halswell on Monday, May 22, 2017, and used his .22 semi-automatic rifle, with suppressor and sub-sonic ammunition, to shoot him dead and then dispose of his body, just weeks after learning he was seeing his ex-partner Joanna Green and telling a counsellor he wanted to ...
Feb 17, 2023 · It's the fifth day of the murder trial of prison guard David Benbow, accused of killing his high school friend when he discovered McGrath was in a romantic relationship with his ex-partner Joanna Green. Today, Green gave evidence, shielded by a screen so she couldn't see the accused and father of her two daughters.
Feb 17, 2023 · On the fifth day of the murder trial, Joanna Green told the court she had started seeing her partner's childhood friend Michael McGrath after she left Benbow, which is why the Crown says Benbow ...
Feb 16, 2023 · However, the defence says police have had tunnel vision with their investigation after Benbow was accused of murder by his ex-partner Joanna Green from the outset. She was in a romantic relationship with the victim, a fact the Crown says was a catalyst for the killing.