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Diary ‘death threat’

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BY CHRIS OLDFIELD
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Email:borderwatch@bigpond.com
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MURDER victim Glenys Heyward kept
a personal diary in which she wrote: “Do
you know what it is like to have your own
flesh and blood tell you that they are going
to kill you?”
The diary extract was part of prosecutor
Mark Norman’s submission to the Adelaide
Magistrate’s Court yesterday during a
committal hearing regarding the murder
of Glenys Heyward.
Ms Heyward’s sons Thomas, 26, and
Matthew, 21, her defacto partner Neil
Heyward and their former farmhand
Jeremy Minter are charged with her
murder.
Lawyers acting for Thomas and Matthew
argued in front of Chief Magistrate
Elizabeth Bolton that their clients had
no case to answer.
In separate lengthy submissions they
claimed much of the prosecution’s evi-
dence was based on suspicion and was
circumstantial.
pMurder victim: Glenys Heyward. pTwo of the accused: Thomas (left) and Matthew Heyward.
The court also heard arguments that
Matthew Heyward had no motive to kill place of work before meeting with Mathew Heyward had been physically abused by negligence will be the fall of your existence
his mother. on one occasion. her son Thomas. as my mother. And is.”
Many of the arguments referred to Ms Heyward had made a $2m claim “Why don’t you do what you are told Mr Norman alleged Ms Heyward was
yesterday surrounded evidence which has against the family farm in a bid to take like you used to - shut up and know your killed at a remote location called Wilkin
been suppressed. control of her life, Mr Norman said. place,” Thomas allegedly shouted at her, in Victoria where her body was found
Mr Norman argued there were 108 infer- He said Neil Heyward was so angry Mr Norman claimed. about four months after she fi rst went
ences which would lead a jury to find the about the claim he allegedly threatened to He claimed Thomas had pushed her missing.
two brothers were participants in a plot “do in” both Ms Heyward and her solicitor head into a wall and yelled: “Know your He referred to a witness who alleged Ms
to kill Mrs Heyward. John Cusack. place”. Heyward feared her former defacto Neil
Mr Norman said Ms Heyward was trying He said Ms Heyward’s attempt to try He alleged a handwritten letter was also Heyward was trying to kill her.
to take control of her life, leave the farm and take control of her life away from the found in Thomas’ bedroom which allegedly She allegedly appealed to that witness:
and effectively go into hiding, not allow- family dairy farm was her fatal sin, and referred to his mother’s $2m claim against “I want you to shoot him” the day before
ing any of the Heyward men to know her alleged Thomas and Matthew Heward the family’s dairy farm. she went missing.
whereabouts. had a motive to be willing participants Reading the contents to a hushed Ms Bolton will consider the submissions
However, he said she kept in email con- in a plot to kill their mother. courtroom he alleged Thomas’ letter said put forward yesterday and rule whether
tact with Matthew Heyward, but alleged Mr Norman highlighted the evidence in part: “Mum can go f**k herself ... do Thomas and Matthew Heyward have a
she removed a t-shirt which identified her of several witnesses who claimed Ms you forget us being your sons? ... your case to answer at 2pm on March 31.

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