$90k ‘in car’ of accused

NEARLY $90,000 in cash was located by police in a black Jeep of murder accused Jack Harrison Vincent Sadler, a court has heard.

Prosecutors allege Mr Sadler killed Jake AndersonBrettner on August 15, 2018, at his Dion Crescent home in Riverside.

Mr Sadler is on trial in the Launceston Supreme Court and has pleaded not guilty to murder.

The court heard Detective Constable Leighton Riggall was one of the officers to find the cash on August 18, 2018, after police had seized the vehicle.

He said it was later counted and found to be a total of $87,480.

The jury previously heard the car was found by police the day before on Andrea Place, a street near Dion Crescent.

The court has previously heard allegations the Jeep was used by Mr Sadler and his former partner Gemma Clark when they disposed of garbage bags containing body parts of Mr Anderson-Brettner into wheelie bins.

When Ms Clark appeared in court earlier this week, she said Mr Sadler had told her “not to mention the Jeep, the Jeep didn’t exist” when she was questioned by police.

Ms Clark said he had become angry when she told him that she had spoken of the vehicle during her interview.

Detective Amanda Munro, who attended the Dion Crescent on August 19, 2018, said during her testimony last week, paperwork relating to the purchase of the Jeep was found in a bedroom at the house.

Dr Paul Holloway, who is a forensic biologist with Forensic Science Service Tasmania, said on Wednesday there were a number of places at Mr Sadler’s house where there were blood stains when he attended in the days after the alleged murder.

“The most obvious one was on a banister as you go up the stairs to the landing, there was a large red/brown stain that was later identified as human blood,” he said.

He also conducted examinations and took swabs from the Jeep, a black Range Rover and Mr Anderson-Brettner’s black Nissan Navara at a police garage after the vehicles were seized.

The court heard luminol tests to detect the presence of blood had a positive response in areas of the Jeep.

Dr Holloway explained during the cross examination luminol can also react to a wide range of things including bleach and cleaning products.

The trial continues on Thursday before Justice Robert Pearce.