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'Lookout' daughter says mum gave brother fatal smoothie
Prosecutors say Maree Mavis Crabtree used painkillers and liquid oxycodone in the drink, and jurors heard evidence of a $125,000 insurance claim.
- On Friday, the Brisbane Supreme Court began viewing video testimony from Tara Crabtree, who alleged her mother, Maree Mavis Crabtree, murdered her brother Jonathan by spiking his fruit smoothie with a fatal dose of crushed painkillers.
- Maree Crabtree allegedly feared she would lose the family home and be arrested if Jonathan survived, later telling Tara that killing him would ensure they could "live a better life without him."
- Tara testified her mother asked her to "keep lookout" while crushing tablets with a hammer, then mixed the powder into a fruit smoothie alongside six bottles of liquid oxycodone.
- Under cross-examination by defense barrister Angus Edwards, Tara admitted she had previously told "half truth, half lies" about the incident, claiming her mother instructed her to fabricate a story.
- Facing murder and fraud charges, Maree Crabtree has pleaded not guilty and allegedly sought a $125,000 insurance payout following Jonathan's death at the family's Gold Coast home in 2017.
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Daughter tells jury mum asked her to 'keep lookout' before fatal smoothie given
A mother asked her daughter to "keep lookout" while she crushed up a fatal dose of drugs and put them in her brother's smoothie, a jury has heard. Maree Mavis Crabtree is accused of killing her 26-year-old son Jonathan with an overdose of painkillers on July 19, 2017 in the family's home north of the Gold Coast before making a $125,000 insurance claim. The 59-year-old has also been accused of attempting to murder her son in January of the same y…
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