Dead man owed $ 10k to Rebels
A FRIEND of alleged murder victim Michael McCabe was told of a $ 10,000 debt supposedly owed to the Rebels motorcycle club, a court has heard.
Brent Malcolm Huxley is on trial before the Supreme Court in Townsville for the murder of 25- year- old Mr McCabe in 2015.
Also on trial is Matthew Luke Horima Rewha for unlawful assault occasioning bodily harm in company and Leonie Maree Doyle for accessory after the fact to murder.
The Crown alleges Rewha assaulted Mr McCabe at a Kirwan unit and that Huxley, in the company of another man, then took him to a location on Mount Spec Rd near Paluma and killed him.
It is alleged that Doyle then helped them to cover up the killing. She has pleaded guilty to an alternative charge of accessory after the fact to manslaughter.
A friend of Mr McCabe, Michael Camenzuli, yesterday gave evidence that about a week before Mr McCabe’s disappearance, his partner received a phone call from Huxley and the phone was passed to him.
Mr Camenzuli said Huxley first asked if he was seeing Leonie, whom he had a relationship with before.
He said during the conversation Huxley asked for him and several people including Mr McCabe to meet him at Reid River, between Charters Towers and Townsville.
“He first told me that he knows about Michael’s debt, the $ 10,000 debt,” he said.
When questioned by Crown prosecutor Nathan Crane about whether Huxley had mentioned to whom Mr McCabe owed the debt, Mr Camenzuli said, “Yeah, the Rebels”.
A friend of Mr McCabe, Jayellen Thomas, said he seemed “edgy and paranoid” in the lead- up to his disappearance.
“He had a lot on his mind,” she said. “He was worrying about something.”
It is alleged Mr McCabe, Doyle and Candis Greer, who had until recently been in a re- lationship with Rewha, had driven from Charters Towers to Townsville that evening.
Ms Greer told the court that during the trip she and Mr McCabe flirted and she had moved from the front seat to the back. She said at the unit Rewha seemed disappointed and unhappy during a conversation with her outside the house and he went back inside.
Ms Greer said she heard “a squeak of a shoe, a bit of a thud” and went back into the house to see Mr McCabe on the ground.
“He was laying face down, well kind of to one side,” she said.
The trial continues.