A boy told police he saw a woman crouching in the doorway of her ex-husband's bedroom with a pocket knife, Exit Mould and eucalyptus spray before he arrived home and was killed, a Sydney trial has heard.
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The boy alleged he heard the screaming ex-husband being punched and sprayed after he returned home and Raquel Gaelle Hutchison demanding he "confess" or she'd kill him.
"He said 'I won't confess! I won't confess!'," the boy said during a recorded police interview played at Hutchison's NSW Supreme Court murder trial on Wednesday.
Hutchison, 40, and Paul Andrew Wilkinson, 39, have pleaded not guilty in the NSW Supreme Court to murdering the 41-year-old man whose body was found dumped on a Wisemans Ferry road in October 2014.
Daniel Greentree, an alleged associate, is also on trial after he denied being an accessory after the fact to the murder. He's facing an alternative charge of concealing a serious offence.
The boy during his 2014 police interview said when he went downstairs, after hearing the scuffle, he saw lots of blood.
He later saw the man lying "very still" and "very quiet" in the boot of a car, the court heard.
"I saw a part of his face. He had rope around his neck," he said.
That night Hutchison and Wilkinson "dropped him off" at a national park, the boy told police.
Hutchison's barrister, Belinda Rigg SC, has said there's no dispute her client "did acts" causing the man's death but evidence would focus on "why she did what she did" and if she was substantially impaired by mental illness.
Ms Rigg during her opening address on Monday said Hutchison had gone to his house to collect evidence of child abuse "and to prove he was a dangerous man because he was an exorcist, demonologist and ghost hunter".
The judge-alone trial continues before Justice Peter Hamill.
Australian Associated Press
