“I’m happy past cheap doubt that the offender was motivated to kill his spouse as a way to have a severe and unfettered relationship with Ms Clarke,” Yehia stated.

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“The truth that Ms Clarke didn’t need a relationship with the offender doesn’t detract from his emotions for her.”

The decide stated, with no stays found, no legitimate conclusions may very well be reached concerning the nature of the act that brought about Roxlyn’s dying, however she was happy past cheap doubt that Bowie acted with an intention to kill, and there was a level of planning and premeditation.

Yehia was not persuaded that proof at trial established Bowie disposed of his spouse’s physique by feeding her to pigs, including that there was “no forensic proof to assist that principle”.

Nonetheless, she was happy that he had disposed of her physique in a method that has eluded detection to guard himself from prosecution and to forestall the physique being accessible for forensic examination.

In a sufferer influence assertion learn to her father in court docket earlier this month, Brenda Boyd stated she and her brother Warren, who has since died, “by no means stopped on the lookout for solutions”.

“We’d been again to Walgett a couple of instances on the lookout for our mom, even taking shovels to dig areas that have been steered to us over time,” Boyd stated.

She pleaded together with her father to “reveal the reality” about her mom’s dying and let her have closure.

“Inform me the place her physique is,” Boyd stated.

Boyd sat within the entrance row of the general public gallery on Friday, flanked by household together with Bowie’s sister Christine Maddox, and detectives Russell Oxford and Brett Mason.

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The decide stated Boyd “not solely misplaced her mom when she was a baby but in addition has lived a life questioning about what occurred to her, the circumstances of her dying and the whereabouts of her physique”.

Bowie has been in custody since he was extradited from Queensland in 2019. He’ll first be eligible for parole in October 2037.

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