Couple ‘argued before death fall’
Woman cried ‘no’ as she fell to death, court told
CRUISE ship crooner Jayden Moorea (pictured) was heard arguing with his cheerleader girlfriend just before she fell to her death from a Southport balcony, a witness told the Southport Magistrates Court. In a triple-0 call played on the first day of his murder charge committal hearing, he told operators Breeana Robinson (inset) had climbed over the balcony.
NEIGHBOURS heard a Gold Coast Titans cheerleader scream and yell “no” as she fell to her death from the 11th floor of a high-rise, a court has been told.
One neighbour claimed she heard arguing just before the fall.
Cruise ship crooner Jayden Moorea, formerly known as Dan Shearin, is accused of throwing girlfriend Breeana Robinson from his balcony in the H20 building in Southport just before 10pm on January 29, 2013.
Moorea faced the first day of a 10day committal hearing in the Southport Magistrates Court on Monday. He is charged with murder and damaging evidence.
The downstairs neighbour of Moorea and Ms Robinson said she heard the pair fighting before the cheerleader fell from the balcony.
Mieke Pearce said she did not remember how long it was between the arguing stopping and hearing Ms Robinson scream. “I just feel like it all happened very quickly. From the memory I have now it all happened one after the other,” she said.
Ms Pearce told the court she heard a woman scream and yell out “no”.
Defence barrister Angus Edwards, instructed by Hannay Lawyers, asked seven of the witnesses the position of Ms Robinson’s body when they saw her after the fall and before someone was able to get on to the awning to help her.
Three witnesses said she was perpendicular to the building and three said she was parallel to the building. One could not clearly recall.
In a triple-0 call played to the court, Moorea told operators his girlfriend had climbed over the balcony.
“I went into the bedroom and she just ran on to the balcony and she has gone over the balcony,” he is heard saying on the call.
His voice sounded high and he spoke in rushed tones.
The triple-0 operator had to ask him a number of times to repeat information. The call cut out when Moorea got into the lift.
Former H20 security guard Gordon Cassidy was one of the first to discover Ms Robinson on the glass awning of the building.
Triple-0 phoned Moorea back while he was standing next to Mr Cassidy under the awning.
“We are down in the foyer, she has landed on the glass,” Moorea said in the recording.
He was asked by an operator if she was breathing. “No, I don’t know, we can’t get up to her,” he said.
Mr Cassidy told the court that when he first went out on the awning Ms Robinson was breathing.
“She was conscious but losing … like her eyes were white … she was conscious and breathing but not conscious sort of thing,” he said.
H20 resident Georgina Hadid told the court she heard Mr Robinson scream “no, no” as she fell from her balcony.
Mrs Hadid said she also saw Ms Robinson falling past her fourth-level balcony for a “split second”. “She was flat on her back facing towards the sky.”
Ms Hadid first gave a statement to police in November 2018 – five and a half years after Ms Robinson’s death. She said she saw Moorea out on the awning while a security guard and her husband Badawi Hadid tried to help Ms Robinson.
“At one stage I did see him on the awning and he never touched her and never helped her. What I recall is him saying ‘Bree, I’m here for your Bree’ … no emotion, no nothing.”
More H20 residents are expected to give evidence when the hearing continues on Tuesday.