Judge Questions Crown Case Against Murder-Accused Mum
Published on February 6, 2024
A woman who has been behind bars for more than six years accused of murdering her two adult children has sobbed as a judge questioned whether there is any prospect of her being convicted. Jurors were discharged on Feb. 6 in the Brisbane trial of Maree Mavis Crabtree who had pleaded not guilty to one count each of murder, attempted murder and attempted insurance fraud. The Crown alleged Crabtree, now 57, murdered her son Jonathan Crabtree by giving him an overdose of prescription drugs in a fruit smoothie in July 2017 after trying to poison him earlier that same year. The trial related only to the death in the family’s Maudsland, Gold Coast home of the 26-year-old who had a brain injury from a car crash....