The Gold Coast Bulletin

Statements sought years after death

- LEA EMERY

POLICE took almost four years to get a statement from one of the paramedics who helped treat Breeana Robinson the night she fell to her death from a high-rise, a court has been told.

Jayden Moorea, previously known as Daniel Shearin, is accused of throwing his Gold Coast Titans cheerleade­r girlfriend from his 11th-floor balcony in the H20 building in Southport on January 29, 2013.

Moorea is facing a committal hearing in the Southport Magistrate­s Court for one count each of murder and damaging evidence.

Paramedic Andrew Busby told the court he provided his statement in July 2017.

Mr Busby said when he arrived at the scene other paramedics were already trying to save Ms Robinson.

“When we approached her body she was laying on her back,” he said. “She was quite precarious­ly close to the edge so we had to move her back so we could treat her.”

Mr Busby said he could not recall any further details about how she was lying.

Throughout the first three days of the committal hearing a number of witnesses have told the court their first statement to police was not until 2017 or 2018.

The positionin­g of Ms Robinson’s body has also been controvers­ial with some saying she was perpendicu­lar to the building and others saying she was parallel to the building. Others had no clear recollecti­on.

H20 resident Ashlee Horvath, who lived on the ninth floor, told the court she was lying on her couch looking out her balcony doors when she heard a scream.

“I heard a scream and saw a woman’s body go past,” she said.

Ms Horvath said she saw Ms Robinson’s feet go past,

followed by her head. She told the court the body was not quite straight up and down.

“It was a split-second thing,” she said.

“I looked up and went ‘oh my gosh, is that what I thought I saw’.

“I heard the loud bang and saw she landed on the glass petition under my balcony.”

Moorea’s former boss Jacqueline Lowein told the court Moorea sounded “scattered and disjointed” when he left a number of voicemail messages for her the night Ms Robinson died.

“He was saying something like ‘oh my God, Jac, Bree’s jumped and thrown herself off the balcony’,” she said.

Ms Lowein said she was working as a travel manager at Travel by Wyndham at the time.

She said she exchanged voicemails with Moorea that night but they never actually managed to speak.

“He was just very scattered, as you would be,” she said.

Defence barrister Angus Edwards, instructed by Hannay

Lawyers, asked what Ms Lowein meant when she said in her statement that Moorea did not sound very genuine.

“It just sounded odd. I just remember thinking it was odd,” she said.

Ms Lowein said she thought Moorea sounded upset and at times could hear him crying.

Moorea also told her he was not going to come into work.

Paramedic Dean Gamblin told the court they moved Ms Robinson further away from the edge of the glass when they arrived.

He said she was lying in a position parallel to the building.

“I believe that she was in the very similar position so we haven’t changed the angle as such,” he said.

Mr Gamblin said he could not comment as Ms Robinson had been moved before paramedics arrived.

He told the court as paramedics worked on her a firefighte­r came to assist but the glass began to move.

Mr Gamblin said he could not remember if Ms Robinson had any marks on her face or throat.

“It was dark and the lighting was quite poor,” he said.

The committal hearing will continue on Thursday when forensic experts are expected to take the stand.

HE WAS JUST VERY SCATTERED, AS YOU WOULD BE

MOOREA’S FORMER BOSS JACQUELINE LOWEIN

 ??  ?? Jayden Moorea, aka Dan Shearin, left, with his legal team front the Southport Courthouse for Day 3 of the committal hearing into the death of Breeana Robinson. Picture: Scott Powick
Jayden Moorea, aka Dan Shearin, left, with his legal team front the Southport Courthouse for Day 3 of the committal hearing into the death of Breeana Robinson. Picture: Scott Powick

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