Mother's Trial: Did She Poison Son?

0:00It's April 9. You're listening to Sydney News today. AI-powered local news. I'm Cory with the story. A Brisbane court is hearing the trial of 59-year-old Marie Mavis Crabtree charged with murdering her 26-year-old son Jonathan back in. July 2017, plus an earlier attempted murder and attempted fraud over his superannuation insurance payout. She's pleaded not guilty to everything. She mixed the deadly dose of the painkiller oxycodone into a drink she gave him at their goal-coast home. Jonathan had his own struggles with prescription drugs after injuries from a car crash, even getting charged once for robbing a chemist. In police recordings played to the jury this week, Crabtree called her son a hardcore addict who'd inject whatever he could find, even joking about. Shooting a vegemite or a sister's meds, she sounded shocked, saying he looked peaceful when she found him, not his usual drug-doubt self. She speculated it might have been a heart attack since he was overweight, or maybe distressed

1:02from a doctor mentioning geriatric care, though he just, bragged about his best day in years. Drugs packets turned up in his room, but no oxycodone there, only elsewhere in the house. The case before Justice Martin Burns rolls on, with more evidence sure to drop as both sides build their stories. Stay tuned for how this family tragedy unfolds in court.