Mum locked up in murder case twist
A ROBINA mother is behind bars after being charged in relation to the murder of slain Tweed Heads bikie associate and standover man Ace Hall.
Emma Thorley, 27, was arrested on the Gold Coast on Monday and charged with being an accessory after the fact to Mr Hall’s fatal shooting.
She was extradited over the border on Tuesday.
Hall, 31, was gunned down outside a Tweed Heads warehouse on June 24 and died soon after being dumped with gunshot wounds to the stomach outside Tweed Hospital.
Three days later, Phillip Raymond Becker, 33, was charged with Mr Hall’s murder after police arrested him at a Jimboomba service station in the early hours of the morning.
Thorley has been charged in relation to allegations she was involved with Becker following Mr Hall’s shooting.
She is not alleged to have been in the car that dumped Mr Hall at the hospital.
The young mum was arrested after a three-month long investigation by the NSW State Crime Command’s Homicide Squad, Tweed/ Byron Local Area Command and the Queensland Police Service’s joint strike force that was set up after Mr Hall’s death.
Thorley yesterday appeared in Tweed Heads Local Court over the charges.
She did not apply for bail on Wednesday and it was formally refused.
Social media profiles show Thorley is a former student of Robina State High School.
She describes herself as a “stay at home mummy” who “loves every minute of it”.
Her Facebook profile features countless photographs of the woman and her young son and on September 11 she wrote, gushing over the child: “... You mean the world plus al (sic) the planets and all the stars ...”
“You’re my everything dream big baby (sic).”
Tweed Byron Local Area Command crime manager Detective Inspector Brendon Cullen said the police investigation into Mr Hall’s death was ongoing.
“The arrest is the result of tireless work from our detectives and the investigation is still far from over,” he said.
“It is a good breakthrough in resolving the matter but we are certainly still working on the investigation.”
Thorley is scheduled to reappear in the Tweed Heads Local Court again on December 20.
The Bulletin made several attempts to contact the 27year-old’s defence lawyer, Amanda Fawaz, but she did not return calls.