AUNT’S AGONY
THE aunt of a Gold Coast Titans cheerleader who fell to her death from an 11thfloor balcony almost eight years ago has labelled the legal system “a joke”.
Janine Mackney, whose niece Breeana Robinson died after falling from the H20 building in Southport on January 29, 2013, questioned why the case took so long to get to court. “Eight years later as I keep saying, it’s just not good enough, our legal system is a joke,” Ms Mackney said on day two of Jayden Moorea’s committal hearing into Ms Robinson’s death.
Moorea, who denies all charges, is facing a committal hearing for one count each of murder and damaging evidence. He is accused of throwing his girlfriend from the balcony.
THE aunt of a Gold Coast Titans cheerleader who fell to her death from an 11th-floor balcony almost eight years ago has labelled the legal system “a joke” and questioned why the case took so long to get to court.
Breeana Robinson died after falling from the H20 building in Southport on January 29, 2013.
Her boyfriend, cruise ship crooner Jayden Moorea, previously known as Daniel Shearin, is facing a committal hearing in the Southport Magistrates Court for one count each of murder and damaging evidence.
It is alleged he threw Ms
Robinson from the balcony. In the first two days of the committal hearing, the court has heard from some witnesses who did not give their first police statement until 2018 – more than five years after Ms Robinson’s death.
Ms Robinson’s aunt Janine Mackney spoke outside court on Tuesday saying she was upset by the delay.
“Eight years later as I keep saying, it’s just not good enough. Our legal system is a joke,” she said.
“Five years later and they are only getting witness statements. You know, you have to do better, you’ve got to do better.”
Ms Mackney became emotional when asked what kept
her coming to court each day. “I made a promise. She was my niece,” she said. “Someone has to be here for her. I think it’s good that, you know, Dan’s expecting that. I’m never going to give up.”
Eight witnesses took the stand on Tuesday with multiple people telling the court
they heard arguing followed by a scream before a thud the night Ms Robinson died.
However, they could not agree how Ms Robinson’s body lay on a glass awning on the bottom of the high-rise.
Some said she was on her back with her feet towards the building and head towards the street.
Others said she was on her back parallel to the building. Some told the court they had no clear recollection.
Moorea’s former next door neighbour Lisa Dunscombe told the court about how she spoke to Moorea after paramedics attended to Breeana.
Ms Dunscombe said Moorea told her: “I could have helped her and I could
have saved her. I could have loved her more.”
She said she had run into Moorea near the lift not long after she heard a thump.
He was coming out of his apartment with his phone in one hand and doing up his pants, she told the court.
Ms Dunscombe said she and her partner got into the lift with Moorea to go down to see what happened. Moorea told the pair it was his girlfriend had caused the thud.
“He said something about his ‘beautiful Bree’ and his exact words I can’t remember and him saying ‘he could have done more’,” she said.
Paramedics are expected to be called as witnesses at the hearing on Wednesday.