One of three men accused of murdering two drug dealers by drowning them in a toolbox was party to punishing them but never intended to kill, a jury has heard.
Cory Breton, 28, and Iuliana Triscaru, 31, were allegedly murdered at Kingston in Logan, south of Brisbane, on January 24, 2016.
Police divers found their bodies two weeks later locked in a toolbox submerged in Scrubby Creek.
Cory Breton and Iuliana Triscaru were killed in 2016.
Stou Daniels, Davy Malu Junior Taiao and Trent Michael Thrupp have stood trial in Queensland’s Supreme Court over the past two weeks after pleading not guilty to two counts each of murder.
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Daniels’ barrister, John Fraser, told the jury on Tuesday during his closing address that there was no evidence his client was at the alleged murder scene.
“Those tragic events that happened at Scrubby Creek were the escapades of [another man] and anyone else there. It was way outside what anybody else contemplated,” Fraser said.
The jury previously heard evidence that the pair could have been alive when the toolbox was thrown into the water and weighed down with concrete.
Crown prosecutor Nathan Crane previously told the jury he would allege Daniels and Taiao were liable for murder by forcing the alleged victims into the toolbox at a Kingston unit in the hours before their death.
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