Woman and accused argued before fatal fire, say neighbours

Neighbours of a female allegedly murdered by her British location impermanent callback him telling them of an statement betwixt nan brace connected nan nighttime of her death.

Timothy Loosemore is facing proceedings aft pleading not blameworthy to nan execution of Maree Vermont and arson of her agrarian location astatine Goldie successful Victoria's Macedon Ranges connected August 5, 2023.

Neighbour Kyman Share, who lived astir 500 metres from Vermont, coming recalled talking to a British man covered successful soot while nan location was connected fire.

"They had a mini argument. He went extracurricular to get firewood and erstwhile he came back, nan spot was connected fire," Share told nan jury, recounting his speech pinch Loosemore.

Earlier that night, Share had conscionable vanished watching tv pinch his partner astir 10pm erstwhile they heard a large popping and crackling sound.

"It was highly large for illustration an explosion," he told nan jury.

From his verandah he saw an orangish glow successful nan vicinity of Vermont's location and raced location to spot what was happening, nan assemblage was told.

Share said he had to move backmost to telephone emergency authorities because of mediocre telephone reception successful nan area.

He said he past raced backmost to Vermont's home, moving into different neighbour Peter Greenham, who had been alerted to nan occurrence by Loosemore.

Greenham said he and his woman had been jolted awake by a frantic Loosemore banging connected their doorway asking them to telephone constabulary and nan occurrence brigade because nan location was connected fire.

Greenham noticed Loosemore was rather blackened by soot and had scratches aliases marks connected his look and humor connected his arms aliases hands.

The brace drove to nan burning location and Greenham asked nan accused what had happened to Vermont.

"He said 'we had an argument, it wasn't a large argument, but we had one'," Greenham said.

The met Share astatine nan home, which was engulfed successful flames.

Both men ran astir nan location respective times yelling Vermont's sanction but were incapable to get adjacent because of nan ferocity of nan fire.

Greenham recalled seeing a "very subdued" Loosemore, while Share sat pinch nan British location impermanent who was "in shock" and many times murmuring he couldn't understand what had happened.

The men carried Loosemore to paramedics, noticing barren humor connected his feature and underneath his arms.

Vermont's assemblage was recovered wrong her burnt-out location and Loosemore, a British traveller readying to motorcycle astir Australia, is accused of sidesplitting her and mounting occurrence to nan house, aliases assaulting her and trying to conceal nan battle by mounting nan location alight.

Loosemore had been staying astatine nan location for free successful speech for doing activity astir nan property.

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