A sadistic and evil mom who instructed her husband to kill her ex-lover has been discovered responsible of homicide as her pretend alibi textual content messages are revealed.
Biannca Edmunds, 36, was unanimously convicted by a 12-person jury of the homicide of her ex-boyfriend Michael Caposiena in Victoria’s Supreme Courtroom on Saturday.
The jury discovered Edmunds had ordered her new husband Glen Cassidy to kill her former associate in March 2016 and faked textual content messages to provide herself an alibi.
Edmunds had denied all involvement within the killing and insisted Cassidy acted alone.
She despatched a number of textual content messages from Cassidy’s telephone to herself to create a pretend alibi, writing: ‘I am about to do one thing you’d contemplate completely f***ing silly’ and ‘If I get caught I would like them to know you had nothing in any respect to do with this’.
To those she replied from her personal telephone: ‘Do not be so bloody silly’.
Biannca Edmunds (left) has been discovered responsible of homicide, instructing her husband Glen Cassidy (proper) to kill her ex-lover Michael Caposiena at his residence in Melbourne’s southwest in 2016
The trial heard Edmunds and her former associate Michael Caposiena (pictured) had son collectively and that she longed to spend extra time with the little boy
It was the second trial Edmunds has confronted this yr after the primary jury failed to succeed in a verdict in June.
The retrial heard Edmunds shared a son with Caposiena however that she longed to spend extra time with him after being absent for the primary two years of his life.
Prosecutor Neill Hutton mentioned Edmunds manipulated her husband to commit the homicide and concocted a plan to catch Mr Caposiena unaware at his unit.
Mr Hutton mentioned Edmunds would use guarantees of ‘kinky intercourse’ to regulate her husband, who was 20 years her senior, the Herald Solar experiences.
‘There’s proof that she mentioned to folks whereas she was having intercourse with Mr Cassidy, she wouldn’t let him orgasm till he promised to kill Michael,’ he mentioned.
Witnesses on the second trial included Ellen Edmunds, Biannca’s mom, who informed the court docket her daughter acknowledged on quite a few events she needed Mr Caposiena out of her and her son’s life (pictured Biannca Edmunds awaits to be interviewed by police for the primary time in 2016)
The couple went so far as drawing a map of the encircling space to notice the place safety cameras, avenue lights and barking canines had been.
The court docket additionally heard a sequence of telephone calls recorded by Cassidy within the lead-up to the hit the place the couple seem to speak in code.
‘I’m utterly over this job,’ Cassidy is heard saying throughout one name.
‘Effectively, simply end it,’ Edmunds replied.
‘I am attempting,’ Cassidy mentioned.
‘End this job and transfer on. Let the long run be higher,’ Edmunds informed Cassidy.
‘We want much less stress in our lives and I am not wanting ahead having to go to Authorized Support … I am sick of it.’
Pictured is the sawn-off rifle Glen Cassidy used to homicide Michael Caposiena
Edmunds despatched a number of textual content messages from Cassidy’s telephone to herself to create a pretend alibi
Police claimed Cassidy would beg his spouse of solely two weeks for intercourse and was made to imagine it will solely occur as soon as the hit was full.
‘Can we now have intercourse tomorrow night time,’ Cassidy requested her on March 3, 2016.
‘I do not know. That depends upon if we’re celebrating or not,’ Edmunds responded.
On March 12, 2016, Cassidy ambushed Caposiena at his Westmeadows residence, in Melbourne’s northwest, as he answered the door.
Nonetheless, Caposiena was alerted by his associate to the intruder exterior his door and managed to stab Cassidy with a knife earlier than he was fatally shot within the head.
Cassidy ended up bleeding to dying on the scene of the botched assassination.
On March 12, 2016, Cassidy ambushed Caposiena at his West Meadows residence, north of Melbourne as he answered the door. Nonetheless, Caposiena was alerted by his associate to Cassidy earlier than he answered the door and managed to stab Cassidy with a knife earlier than he was fatally shot within the head (pictured is the scene of the botched assassination)
The court docket heard Edmunds was in Shepparton on the day her ex-lover was killed and was disillusioned her husband hadn’t executed the hit whereas she was in Darwin.
Witnesses on the second trial included Ellen Edmunds, Biannca’s mom, who informed the court docket her daughter had mentioned on quite a few events she needed Mr Caposiena out of her and her son’s life.
Paul Bonner, a pal of Cassidy’s additionally gave a sworn statement about how she referred to as her husband ‘spineless’, ‘p***-weak’ and a ‘coward’ in addition to telling him: ‘For those who had been an actual man, you’d care for it’.
Justice Lex Lasry will sentence Edmunds at a later date.
