Woman accused of plotting woodchipper murder found guilty
A woman accused of being the architect of a murder plan that involved a man being fed into a woodchipper has been found guilty.
The Crown alleged that Sharon Graham (right) asked her lovers Gregory Lee Roser (left) and Peter Koenig to kill her ex-partner George Saunders and make it look like an accident in a bid to claim his $750,000 life insurance. (Image supplied)
Sharon Graham, 63, pleaded not guilty to the murder of Bruce James Saunders at a property near Gympie on November 12, 2017.
She was accused of asking her then partner Greg Roser and Peter Koenig to kill Bruce Saunders, 53, for insurance money.
Saunders was hit on the head with an iron bar and his body fed into an industrial woodchipper to make it look like an accident, Brisbane Supreme Court was told.
He died while the three men cleared vegetation on a friend’s rural property in the Sunshine Coast hinterland.
Saunders and Graham had been in an “on and off” relationship.
Koenig told the jury that he saw Roser hit Saunders multiple times on the head with the iron bar before helping carry the lifeless body to the woodchipper.
Koenig said he placed Saunders on the chipper tray and used a stick to push the body in.
The next day Graham discussed Mr Saunders’ will over coffee before sleeping in his bed with another man, the court heard.
Graham is set to be sentenced after the jury reached a guilty verdict on Friday afternoon.
