Charlise Mutten was shot in the cheek, her body bound and put into a barrel that was then filled with sand and dumped down an embankment, a jury has been told.
Senior Constable Graham Gray told the court the barrel was opened to find it was three-quarters filled with “light coloured sand”.
“Another officer used her hand to move the sand from one side to the other and located what appeared to be human remains,” he told the court on Wednesday.
Former NSW Police crime scene officer Mitchell James told the jury Charlise’s body was head down in the barrel in the foetal position.
She was “bound” in a number of bloodstained wrappings and black garbage bags, the court heard.
A black plastic bag was also found in the barrel containing vegetation and soil, which had apparent blood staining, Mr James told the court.
“The body was found in a decomposed state ... a regular bullet wound was into her right cheek ... it struck and dislodged a tooth,” Mr James said.
The gunshot had travelled into her head and was lodged into the skull, with lead bullet fragments recovered from her head, the jury was told.
Mr James told the court she also had a gunshot wound on her lower left back near the hip area.
The second bullet at perforated the pelvic bone, he told the jury.
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