WILSONTON 9 MURDER CASES DELAYED
NINE people charged with murdering Toowoomba mum Debbie Combarngo will spend more time behind bars before they learn their fate. The families and law- yers of the accused packed the Toowoomba Courthouse yesterday, only to learn their loved ones and clients will spend at least the next two months on remand in custody.
Police have now provided their legal representatives with a partial brief containing their case against those accused, but after a forensic procedure was ordered against the group in June more time is required before they bring the nine to trial in the Supreme Court.
That trial will likely not be until next year.
Magistrate Damien Carroll adjourned all their matters to be heard again on September 6 in the Toowoomba Magistrates Court, as police continue their investigations. Police allege the group stormed the Wilsonton unit and assaulted the Toowoomba mum in May armed with golf clubs, metal poles, a knife and a hammer.
Ms Combarngo later died of her injuries after the ordeal that allegedly also saw her young daughter and another man assaulted.
Police believe Ms Combarngo was visiting the unit belonging to a family member at the time of the attack.
Police are also now referring to them as “the Wilsonton nine” after a prosecutor used the phrase yesterday morning.
Lynn Fay Jean Anderson, Ashley Aaron Fing, Rhianna Jade Fing, Ty Peter Fing, Shiralee Fernando, Christine Maree Hall, Jana Leigh Hall, Rhonda Ann Hall and Joshua James Lingwoodock have all been charged with murder, two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm while armed and entering a dwelling while in company.
A partial brief of evidence was provided to their lawyers yesterday, although the case will not be able to be heard in this year’s Toowoomba sitting of the Supreme Court in August.