By Dad in love triangle trial
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Boyce was discovered impaled to her penthouse apartment bed by Lang on October 22, 2015.
What exactly happened that night is being played out in the Brisbane High Court this week. It started when Lang came to stay at Boyce’s Kangaroo Point penthouse while Boyce’s husband was ill and staying in Cairns.
Crown prosecutor David Meredith said Lang had killed Boyce in an act of ‘‘jealous rage’’ after she had refused to leave her husband and have a formal relationship with Lang.
The couple had argued and Land said Boyce had asked him to sleep in the guest room that night. The next morning he discovered her dead on her bed with a knife in her hand. He called emergency services. The call was played out to the courtroom.
‘‘I just woke up this morning and I found my fiancee dead in her bed with a knife in her abdomen,’’ Lang told the triplezero operator. ‘‘There’s been no forced entry, it looks selfinduced.’’
Lang told the operator she had been ‘‘upset’’ the night before.
Police rushed to the scene to find Lang in a state of shock. ‘‘It’s awful when you lose the person you’ve loved your entire life,’’ he told police before he was arrested.
Boyce had been stabbed four to five times with a cooking knife. The wounds were so deep the blade protruded from her back, impaling her stomach to the bed.
A forensic officer testified on Thursday that Boyce was found with the fingers of her left hand touching the handle of the knife, which penetrated her back.
Her children have told the court their mother was righthanded and suffered from arthritis in her fingers.
The prosecutor said it was up to the jury to decide whether Lang killed her or ‘‘whether she committed suicide’’.
But Boyce suffered from bipolar disorder and mental illness, and a friend testified she had a ‘‘fragile mind and an extreme mental illness’’.
That friend was prominent business woman Sarina Russo but she stressed she had not seen any sign of her mental illness in the days leading up to her death.
Russo said Boyce called her on October 21, 2015 because she was stressed about finding a buyer for her $3.5 million apartment.
However, after their conversation, Russo said her friend sounded ‘‘calm’’ and ‘‘resolute’’ and they discussed the pending birth of her grandchild.
‘‘She was very happy,’’ she said. ‘‘She said I’ll see you there.’’
In police interviews Lang admitted to having an argument the night before and said she had thrown her phone off the balcony.
This is at odds with evidence in court showing Boyce had called an ex-boyfriend and one other friend shortly before she died.
Boyce’s son, Zachary, was also told his mother was not so keen on Lang visiting her. Zachary had stated he thought it was ‘‘disgusting’’ she had someone there with her while her husband Graham was sick in Cairns.
‘‘She asked if I would come and get rid of him but I said I didn’t want to get involved at that time, I didn’t want to see him,’’ he told the court.
Complicating matters further were Boyce’s words to her son in the past saying Lang was his true biological father. However, no DNA testing was ever done to confirm this.
The trial continues.