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A woman has been arrested at a Sydney brothel in connection with the shooting murder of the Brisbane rugby league referee Tony McGrath in 2013. | |
A friend found McGrath dead from a single gunshot wound to the head under his home in the suburb of Woolloongabba on 21 May. | |
On Friday New South Wales police arrested Susan Stewart, 45, who is from Helensvale on the Gold Coast, inside a brothel in Brookvale in Sydney’s north. She faces a Queensland arrest warrant on one count of murder. | |
Queensland’s homicide investigation unit will seek her extradition on Monday when she faces Sydney’s central local court. | |
Police have described McGrath as a “loner” who had no family apart from his sister and said his lack of close relationships had made it difficult to investigate his murder. He had been appointed president of the Brisbane Rugby League Referees Association not long before he died. | |
On Wednesday officers arrested and charged a 43-year-old Coolangatta man with murder, armed robbery, attempted murder or alternatively grievous bodily harm, arson, stupefying in order to commit indictable offence, entering a premises with intent and weapons offences. | |
Police working on the investigation searched a home in Terranora, northern New South Wales, on Wednesday and arrested a 46-year-old man. He was charged over unrelated matters. | Police working on the investigation searched a home in Terranora, northern New South Wales, on Wednesday and arrested a 46-year-old man. He was charged over unrelated matters. |
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