The 30-year-old was on bail for unrelated offences when he was arrested and charged in relation to the disappearance of his mom, Wendy Sleeman, the court docket heard.
There are considerations for the 61-year-old girl’s welfare and an in depth search continues throughout the Gold Coast, Logan and Brisbane.
Against the law scene was declared at an Elanora dwelling earlier within the week after a considerable amount of blood was discovered on the property.
But Murdok’s lawyer Rodney Keyte mentioned the case in opposition to his shopper was weak regardless of the seriousness of the fees, which included varied home violence-related costs and felony counts of kidnapping, assault, stalking and tried arson.
Based on the circumstantial proof, Keyte mentioned he extremely doubted the case would make it previous the committal stage and questioned what tied his shopper to the scene.
In opposing bail, police prosecutors argued they’d a “very strong and very powerful” case in opposition to Murdok.
Officers discovered a pool of blood on the lavatory ground and drag marks alongside the ground, indicating the sufferer was bleeding closely and unconscious, prosecutors mentioned in court docket.
Sleeman feared for her personal security and believed Murdok would possibly attempt to kill her as just lately as January 23, the court docket heard.
Meanwhile, police are concentrating on the seek for a blue Honda Jazz hatchback with no registration plates linked to Sleeman’s disappearance.
The automobile was final seen at 5.50pm on Tuesday on the intersection of Paradise Road and Kingston Road in Logan Central.
“If someone sees a blue Jazz with no number plates, ring,” Detective Superintendent Brendan Smith mentioned on Thursday.
“We’ve got to find Wendy before it’s too late.”
Evidence gathered up to now level to the occasions on the property being deliberate, Smith claimed to reporters.
Sleeman had known as police after discovering a disturbance at her dwelling on Tuesday afternoon.
“She came home from work, and the house had been given some forced entry, and she noticed some damage,” Smith mentioned.
By the time police arrived half-hour later, Sleeman was lacking.
Officers had been unable to intercept a car that was leaving the property at pace and went again to the property the place they might odor petrol and see smoke, the court docket was advised.
Police claimed that the scene indicated there had been violence concerned within the disappearance, whereas and that there was additionally proof of a hearth that had began however was extinguished.
