Current The vicious murder of Erin Gilbert - NSW

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'Merrylands woman Erin Gilbert died after being found with stab wounds to the head'
'April 11, 2023 - 6:54PM'

'A woman found dead in a pool of blood inside her Merrylands apartment was stabbed multiple times in the head with a sharp object by an intruder who remains on the run more than 48 hours after the attack.

Several voices were heard yelling inside Erin Gilbert’s second-floor unit late on Sunday before her husband arrived home to find her body, with police now scouring CCTV cameras in the hope of identifying who paid her a visit.

Nicholas Gilbert was performing CPR on his 42-year-old wife when police arrived at their Newman Ave unit to check on her welfare after a worried neighbour called Triple-0 with concerns for her welfare.

Mr Gilbert spent much of Easter Monday assisting police with their inquiries, but is not understood to be a suspect with CCTV confirming his alibi.

Police sources said the wounds inflicted to Mrs Gilbert’s head by an unknown sharp object were “severe”.

NSW Police Superintendent Andrew Holland said Ms Gilbert had no serious criminal history and appealed for the public’s help them identify those responsible for inflicting her fatal injuries.

“Erin was at home at a unit block that evening … we are just concerned that someone else may have been at the unit block with her,” Supt Holland said.

“Our lines of inquiry are open at this stage, it’s too early to determine what has actually happened hence why we are asking the community to come forward.

“We are asking members of the community who may know the last movements of Erin in the lead up to her death to contact our investigators or Crime Stoppers.
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NSW Police have launched Strike Force Trevelyan with detectives from the local Cumberland Police Area Command and Homicide Squad to investigate Mrs Gilbert’s death.

They are hopeful a post mortem, due to be carried out on Wednesday, will provide them with vital clues.
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www.police.nsw.gov.au

'Investigations continue into woman's death - Merrylands​

Tuesday, 11 April 2023 10:18:31 AM'

Police are appealing for public assistance as investigations continue into the death of a woman in Sydney’s west.

About 11.30pm on Sunday (9 April 2023), emergency services were called to a unit on Newman Street, Merrylands, after concerns were raised for the welfare of a woman.

On arrival, officers from Cumberland Police Area Command located the body of a woman. While she is yet to be formally identified, she is believed to a 42-year-old woman.

A 38-year-old man was spoken to at the scene, before he was taken to Granville Police Station to assist with inquiries. He has since been released.

A crime scene was established, which has been examined by specialist forensic police.

Detectives, with assistance from the State Crime Command’s Homicide Squad, have commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the woman’s death under Strike Force Trevelyan.

As inquiries continue, investigators are appealing for anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000 or https://nsw.crimestoppers.com.au. Information is treated in strict confidence. The public is reminded not to report information via NSW Police social media pages.'

 

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CCTV footage released by Police today of what is thought to be someone leaving the crime scene on a motorised bike and Police are now searching for the murder weapon in the locale of the crime scene.

Also some more background info on the financially troubled deceased Nurse/Pathologist.

Baby heartbreak of stabbing victim

Erin Gilbert's husband Nicholas arrived home to their Merrylands unit, in Sydney's west, at 11.30pm on Easter Sunday to find his wife choking on her own blood.

www.dailymail.co.uk

EXCLUSIVE: Baby heartbreak of nurse who was stabbed multiple times in the head with a sharp object and found dead in a pool of blood - as her best mate who she used to party with reveals her last wish​

'PUBLISHED: 11:18 AEST, 13 April 2023 | UPDATED: 16:17 AEST, 13 April 2023'

'A nurse who was stabbed multiple times in the head, killing her, 'wanted a baby more than anything' and was about to start her third round of IVF before she died.
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Daily Mail Australia can now reveal the couple, who got married in 2020, were desperately trying to have a baby.
Ms Gilbert's childhood best friend Shane Niquet said she had recently quit smoking to improve her chances of falling pregnant.
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Mr Niquet also explained Ms Gilbert was a qualified nurse and pathologist but was in-between jobs when she died.

Court documents revealed the Gilberts were struggling financially and had legal battles with two landlords over unpaid rent.
Two court orders from the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal direct the Gilberts to pay more than a total $8850 in overdue rent to their landlords.
In October, the couple were evicted from their home on Victoria Road in Parramatta after they breached their tenancy agreement by failing to pay more than $7780 in rent.

Only a few months later, the Gilberts were ordered to pay the outstanding rent of more than $1060 on their current home in Merrylands.
Ms Gilbert was found dead in that apartment only days after the court mandate was handed down.
She and her husband had been facing eviction by July if they didn't meet their rental repayments.'

 

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A woman found dead in a pool of blood inside her Merrylands apartment was stabbed multiple times in the head with a sharp object by an intruder who remains on the run more than 48 hours after the attack.

A particularly vicious crime, it's sickening hatred. Seems to be premeditated too with the motorised bike escape, the offender probably thinking he won't be so easy to track on a bike.

I just can't even imagine how her husband must have felt.

 

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A particularly vicious crime, it's sickening hatred. Seems to be premeditated too with the motorised bike escape, the offender probably thinking he won't be so easy to track on a bike.

I just can't even imagine how her husband must have felt.

Pretty s**t after Police initially arrested him for the murder of his wife (Erin Gilbert).

'Merrylands husband Nicholas Gilbert tells of finding dying wife Erin​

Nine days after he found his wife Erin’s bloodied body on the bed of their western Sydney unit, Nicholas Gilbert still has no idea who killed her. But he claims police thought it was him when they placed him under arrest before later releasing him.

April 17, 2023 - 8:11PM'

'The husband of a Sydney woman murdered on Easter Sunday insists he didn’t kill his wife as he revealed police arrested him over her violent death hours after he made the grisly discovery.

Nicholas Gilbert says he spent 23 hours in a police cell - still covered in his wife Erin’s blood from giving her mouth-to-mouth when he found her - while detectives launched a murder probe to find her killer
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told The Daily Telegraph yesterday that, in the hours after the murder, police thought he was the killer.
“I’m sitting there in the cop station thinking ‘I’m helping them catch who just killed my wife, I’ve still got her blood all over me’ … and they say ‘You’re being arrested and detained for the murder of Erin Gilbert’,” Mr Gilbert said.
“I nearly f**king collapsed … I didn’t kill my wife.”

But a short time later, Mr Gilbert said another officer told him he was ‘right to go home’.

Mr Gilbert denies ever harming his wife.

He says the couple, who married two years ago, battled with drug addiction which worsened shortly before Mrs Gilbert’s death, but says they had plans to go to rehab and ‘get clean’.

The night of Mrs Gilbert’s killing, Mr Gilbert said he was at his mate Benny’s house.

He and Mrs Gilbert, 42, ‘didn’t do much’ earlier that Sunday, as his wife was struggling with depression and didn’t like to socialise or leave the house.

When he got home around 11.30pm, Mr Gilbert said he’d lost his house keys, so used a rubbish bin to climb onto the first floor balcony and access their unit from an open door.

“I came inside, everything was normal … then I went into the bedroom and Erin’s lying on the mattress on the floor, covered in blood,” he said.
“I just didn’t know what to do … I grabbed my phone out and pressed the call button and it brought up the last person I’d rung, and that was Benny.
“I’m like ‘Benny what do I do? I think Erin’s dying, help me, help me, help me’.
“He said ‘Have you called the ambulance?’... So I hung up and called them.”

But in Mr Gilbert’s panic, he says he was mistakenly put through to the wrong call centre and not NSW Ambulance.

“Someone was speaking Chinese on the end of the phone, I was panicking and stressing,” Mr Gilbert said.
“Benny comes and sees Erin and says ‘She’s moving, she’s moving’ ... so I tried again to resuscitate her.
“I’m pushing her chest saying ‘Please don’t leave me, please don’t leave me’.”

Paramedics arrived and took over CPR, but Mrs Gilbert died at the scene.

Now Mr Gilbert just wants to know who killed his wife.
He says with all the CCTV in the streets around his house, someone must have seen something.
“She knew not to let random people in ... if someone comes around and I’m not home, Erin would tell them to come back in an hour,” he said.
“I’m a paranoid sort of husband ... she spends all her time with me. I don’t need other blokes coming round and hanging out with her when I’m not there.”

He remembered a fight his wife had with a friend a week before her death, which he reported to detectives investigating her death.
Mr Gilbert denied the pair had a drug debt or owed money to dealers.
“Erin’s been adamant ... she doesn’t want us getting in debt with people,” he said.

The Gilberts had undergone a government-funded unsuccessful round of IVF in the hope of having a baby, which Mr Gilbert says mentally and emotionally affected his wife more than they both expected.
“Erin took it really hard … she got depression and that, it really messed with her.”

Mr Gilbert said he’s tried to contact his wife’s parents since her death, but hasn’t been able to reach them.
“I don’t know when her funeral will be or anything … I just don’t know,” he said.
He says he feels like a ‘suspect’ with little information from police.
“Since they dropped me home that night, I haven’t seen the police except the other day they gave me a mobile phone and $50 to get a sim card.”

Mr Gilbert said police had seized the mobile phone he and his wife shared, his electric bike, wedding ring and necklace as part of their investigation.
NSW Police confirmed a 38-year-old man was arrested at the scene and assisted detectives with their inquiries before being released pending further inquiries.'

 

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Pretty s**t after Police initially arrested him for the murder of his wife (Erin Gilbert).

'Merrylands husband Nicholas Gilbert tells of finding dying wife Erin​

Nine days after he found his wife Erin’s bloodied body on the bed of their western Sydney unit, Nicholas Gilbert still has no idea who killed her. But he claims police thought it was him when they placed him under arrest before later releasing him.

April 17, 2023 - 8:11PM'

'The husband of a Sydney woman murdered on Easter Sunday insists he didn’t kill his wife as he revealed police arrested him over her violent death hours after he made the grisly discovery.

Nicholas Gilbert says he spent 23 hours in a police cell - still covered in his wife Erin’s blood from giving her mouth-to-mouth when he found her - while detectives launched a murder probe to find her killer
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told The Daily Telegraph yesterday that, in the hours after the murder, police thought he was the killer.
“I’m sitting there in the cop station thinking ‘I’m helping them catch who just killed my wife, I’ve still got her blood all over me’ … and they say ‘You’re being arrested and detained for the murder of Erin Gilbert’,” Mr Gilbert said.
“I nearly f**king collapsed … I didn’t kill my wife.”

But a short time later, Mr Gilbert said another officer told him he was ‘right to go home’.

Mr Gilbert denies ever harming his wife.

He says the couple, who married two years ago, battled with drug addiction which worsened shortly before Mrs Gilbert’s death, but says they had plans to go to rehab and ‘get clean’.

The night of Mrs Gilbert’s killing, Mr Gilbert said he was at his mate Benny’s house.

He and Mrs Gilbert, 42, ‘didn’t do much’ earlier that Sunday, as his wife was struggling with depression and didn’t like to socialise or leave the house.

When he got home around 11.30pm, Mr Gilbert said he’d lost his house keys, so used a rubbish bin to climb onto the first floor balcony and access their unit from an open door.

“I came inside, everything was normal … then I went into the bedroom and Erin’s lying on the mattress on the floor, covered in blood,” he said.
“I just didn’t know what to do … I grabbed my phone out and pressed the call button and it brought up the last person I’d rung, and that was Benny.
“I’m like ‘Benny what do I do? I think Erin’s dying, help me, help me, help me’.
“He said ‘Have you called the ambulance?’... So I hung up and called them.”

But in Mr Gilbert’s panic, he says he was mistakenly put through to the wrong call centre and not NSW Ambulance.

“Someone was speaking Chinese on the end of the phone, I was panicking and stressing,” Mr Gilbert said.
“Benny comes and sees Erin and says ‘She’s moving, she’s moving’ ... so I tried again to resuscitate her.
“I’m pushing her chest saying ‘Please don’t leave me, please don’t leave me’.”

Paramedics arrived and took over CPR, but Mrs Gilbert died at the scene.

Now Mr Gilbert just wants to know who killed his wife.
He says with all the CCTV in the streets around his house, someone must have seen something.
“She knew not to let random people in ... if someone comes around and I’m not home, Erin would tell them to come back in an hour,” he said.
“I’m a paranoid sort of husband ... she spends all her time with me. I don’t need other blokes coming round and hanging out with her when I’m not there.”

He remembered a fight his wife had with a friend a week before her death, which he reported to detectives investigating her death.
Mr Gilbert denied the pair had a drug debt or owed money to dealers.
“Erin’s been adamant ... she doesn’t want us getting in debt with people,” he said.

The Gilberts had undergone a government-funded unsuccessful round of IVF in the hope of having a baby, which Mr Gilbert says mentally and emotionally affected his wife more than they both expected.
“Erin took it really hard … she got depression and that, it really messed with her.”

Mr Gilbert said he’s tried to contact his wife’s parents since her death, but hasn’t been able to reach them.
“I don’t know when her funeral will be or anything … I just don’t know,” he said.
He says he feels like a ‘suspect’ with little information from police.
“Since they dropped me home that night, I haven’t seen the police except the other day they gave me a mobile phone and $50 to get a sim card.”

Mr Gilbert said police had seized the mobile phone he and his wife shared, his electric bike, wedding ring and necklace as part of their investigation.
NSW Police confirmed a 38-year-old man was arrested at the scene and assisted detectives with their inquiries before being released pending further inquiries.'

Hmmm. You find your wife drenched in blood and dying and the first thing you do is call a mate?

 

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Hmmm. You find your wife drenched in blood and dying and the first thing you do is call a mate?

It isn't clear whether the husband intended to call his mate, just that he hit the 'call' button in a panic and the last person he'd rung answered the phone.

Then there was another call error or mix up.

 

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NSW Police confirmed a 38-year-old man was arrested at the scene and assisted detectives with their inquiries before being released pending further inquiries.'

Why they don't think it's him, may be because the suspect they caught on CCTV on the motorised pushbike pedalled off AFTER he'd found Erin. Her husband may have been entering the apartment while the killer was still in there.

 

[Longmembrey]

Pretty s**t after Police initially arrested him for the murder of his wife (Erin Gilbert).

'Merrylands husband Nicholas Gilbert tells of finding dying wife Erin​

Nine days after he found his wife Erin’s bloodied body on the bed of their western Sydney unit, Nicholas Gilbert still has no idea who killed her. But he claims police thought it was him when they placed him under arrest before later releasing him.

April 17, 2023 - 8:11PM'

'The husband of a Sydney woman murdered on Easter Sunday insists he didn’t kill his wife as he revealed police arrested him over her violent death hours after he made the grisly discovery.

Nicholas Gilbert says he spent 23 hours in a police cell - still covered in his wife Erin’s blood from giving her mouth-to-mouth when he found her - while detectives launched a murder probe to find her killer
....
told The Daily Telegraph yesterday that, in the hours after the murder, police thought he was the killer.
“I’m sitting there in the cop station thinking ‘I’m helping them catch who just killed my wife, I’ve still got her blood all over me’ … and they say ‘You’re being arrested and detained for the murder of Erin Gilbert’,” Mr Gilbert said.
“I nearly f**king collapsed … I didn’t kill my wife.”

But a short time later, Mr Gilbert said another officer told him he was ‘right to go home’.

Mr Gilbert denies ever harming his wife.

He says the couple, who married two years ago, battled with drug addiction which worsened shortly before Mrs Gilbert’s death, but says they had plans to go to rehab and ‘get clean’.

The night of Mrs Gilbert’s killing, Mr Gilbert said he was at his mate Benny’s house.

He and Mrs Gilbert, 42, ‘didn’t do much’ earlier that Sunday, as his wife was struggling with depression and didn’t like to socialise or leave the house.

When he got home around 11.30pm, Mr Gilbert said he’d lost his house keys, so used a rubbish bin to climb onto the first floor balcony and access their unit from an open door.

“I came inside, everything was normal … then I went into the bedroom and Erin’s lying on the mattress on the floor, covered in blood,” he said.
“I just didn’t know what to do … I grabbed my phone out and pressed the call button and it brought up the last person I’d rung, and that was Benny.
“I’m like ‘Benny what do I do? I think Erin’s dying, help me, help me, help me’.
“He said ‘Have you called the ambulance?’... So I hung up and called them.”

But in Mr Gilbert’s panic, he says he was mistakenly put through to the wrong call centre and not NSW Ambulance.

“Someone was speaking Chinese on the end of the phone, I was panicking and stressing,” Mr Gilbert said.
“Benny comes and sees Erin and says ‘She’s moving, she’s moving’ ... so I tried again to resuscitate her.
“I’m pushing her chest saying ‘Please don’t leave me, please don’t leave me’.”

Paramedics arrived and took over CPR, but Mrs Gilbert died at the scene.

Now Mr Gilbert just wants to know who killed his wife.
He says with all the CCTV in the streets around his house, someone must have seen something.
“She knew not to let random people in ... if someone comes around and I’m not home, Erin would tell them to come back in an hour,” he said.
“I’m a paranoid sort of husband ... she spends all her time with me. I don’t need other blokes coming round and hanging out with her when I’m not there.”

He remembered a fight his wife had with a friend a week before her death, which he reported to detectives investigating her death.
Mr Gilbert denied the pair had a drug debt or owed money to dealers.
“Erin’s been adamant ... she doesn’t want us getting in debt with people,” he said.

The Gilberts had undergone a government-funded unsuccessful round of IVF in the hope of having a baby, which Mr Gilbert says mentally and emotionally affected his wife more than they both expected.
“Erin took it really hard … she got depression and that, it really messed with her.”

Mr Gilbert said he’s tried to contact his wife’s parents since her death, but hasn’t been able to reach them.
“I don’t know when her funeral will be or anything … I just don’t know,” he said.
He says he feels like a ‘suspect’ with little information from police.
“Since they dropped me home that night, I haven’t seen the police except the other day they gave me a mobile phone and $50 to get a sim card.”

Mr Gilbert said police had seized the mobile phone he and his wife shared, his electric bike, wedding ring and necklace as part of their investigation.
NSW Police confirmed a 38-year-old man was arrested at the scene and assisted detectives with their inquiries before being released pending further inquiries.'

 

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Why they don't think it's him, may be because the suspect they caught on CCTV on the motorised pushbike pedalled off AFTER he'd found Erin. Her husband may have been entering the apartment while the killer was still in there.

Source?

 

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Source?

Erin Gilbert's body was found on Monday, and security footage from the scene shows a person on a motorised pushbike riding away from the unit on Newman Street in Merrylands after Gilbert's husband Nic found her body about 11.30pm.

Police search for bike rider in CCTV after death of Sydney woman

www.9news.com.au

 

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Erin Gilbert's body was found on Monday, and security footage from the scene shows a person on a motorised pushbike riding away from the unit on Newman Street in Merrylands after Gilbert's husband Nic found her body about 11.30pm.

Police search for bike rider in CCTV after death of Sydney woman

www.9news.com.au

Husband sounds super dodgy imo !

 

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Husband sounds super dodgy imo !

They both were.
And most likely that many of their friends/acquaintances were too.

 

[jason_recliner]

Husband sounds super dodgy imo !

She sounds just as dodgy. The killer is known to the police and they'll arrest him in no time.

 

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Husband owns motorised bike. Benny comes over. Stranger is seen getting away on bike. Hmmmm

 

[Kurve]

The police might be sitting off for now, when they get all the forensics back will have a better idea if the husband might have been involved after all.

They can pick him back up any time. If so.

 

[craffles]

The police might be sitting off for now, when they get all the forensics back will have a better idea if the husband might have been involved after all.

They can pick him back up any time. If so.

I’m not one to come to quick conclusions but sometimes the simplest explanation is the right one. Time will tell

 

[Kurve]

It's been over one month and so quiet, there's nothing.

 

[craffles]

It's been over one month and so quiet, there's nothing.

Very strange indeed, maybe the police are just collecting evidence quietly for a rock solid case or maybe they have absolutely nothing? I’m backing the former.

 

[BFew]

It's been over one month and so quiet, there's nothing.

There was movement at the Station this week on this case, with the DM temporarily reviving it from it's luke warm status.

Looks like the carpet will get a makeover soon.

Surprising update in case of nurse found dead in a pool of blood

Nicholas Gilbert, 38, had been visiting a friend before he got home to his apartment in Merrylands, in western Sydney, at about 11.30pm on Easter Sunday on April 9 to find his wife Erin Gilbert, 42, choking on her own blood.

www.dailymail.co.uk

EXCLUSIVE: Surprising update in case of nurse found dead in a pool of blood - as her shattered husband reveals the love letters she sent him and why he wants to stay in their apartment'​

'PUBLISHED: 16:27 AEST, 10 July 2023 | UPDATED: 17:28 AEST, 10 July 2023'
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A spokesperson from NSW Police said on Monday the investigation is ongoing and no arrests have been made - a situation Mr Gilbert told Daily Mail Australia is so stressful that 'I'm losing my mind'.

Two months on from the tragedy, he is still living in the apartment where she died and fears he will get evicted because was involved in a serious car accident a few years ago, sustained a brain injury, and is unable to work enough to pay rent.

The blood stains on the carpet of their home makes him break down whenever he looks at them, Mr Gilbert said.

'I'll be on the street in the next few days, but it's hard enough to stay there because of the (marks) in the carpet - I tear up every time I see them,' he said.

'But then again, it's the only place I feel close to Erin.'

Mr Gilbert said he realised he wanted to spent his life with her a few years ago when he was hit by a car doing 80km/h, rolled three times and broke his neck, cheek, jaw, nose, teeth, shoulder, eight ribs, his hip, leg, and toes, and sustained a brain injury.

'I'm actually lucky to be alive,' he said.

He explained that Ms Gilbert, who was a registered nurse, lost her job because she was looking after him at home.

'That's when I got down on one knee with my walking stick and my neck brace and proposed,' he said.
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Finally a murder charge.

Man charged after nurse's body is found in pool of blood at unit block

Erin Gilbert, 42, was allegedly stabbed to death in the rental unit she shared with her husband Nicholas Gilbert, 38, in Merrylands, in Sydney's west, before 11.30pm on Easter Sunday.

www.dailymail.co.uk

'Erin Gilbert death: Man charged after nurse's body is found in pool of blood at Merrylands unit block in April - as it's revealed her husband is now living on the streets

• Erin Gilbert, 42, allegedly murdered by husband's friend
• Morten Jensen, 32, charged three months later

By CHARLOTTE KARP FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
PUBLISHED: 15:38 AEST, 25 July 2023 | UPDATED: 18:47 AEST, 25 July 2023

The man charged over the alleged stabbing murder of a Sydney nurse was the 'best mate' of her husband, who found her lying in their bedroom in a pool of blood.
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On Tuesday afternoon, following a lengthy police investigation, it was confirmed Mr Gilbert's friend Morten Jensen, 32, has been charged with murder.
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NSW Police will allege in court that Mr Jensen went to Ms Gilbert's apartment 'after a conflict had escalated' and 'attacked her with a bladed instrument'.

'It is further alleged the man fled the scene on foot, before getting on a black and red mountain bike,' a statement read.

Detectives believe Jensen 'discarded the clothes he was wearing' as he allegedly fled the scene, including a grew hooded jumper with a distinctive logo on the back.

Mr Jensen was remanded in custody and will appear in Parramatta Local Court on Wednesday.

Mr Gilbert told 9 News on Monday that he was in contact with Mr Jensen on the night of the alleged murder, but didn't hear from him in the following days.

'He was like a brother to me,' Mr Gilbert said.

'I thought it was strange he wasn't coming to see me, he's meant to be my best mate, he just disappeared.

Two weeks after Ms Gilbert's death, Mr Jensen was imprisoned for unrelated matters.

He is behind bars at Silverwater Correctional Facility, near Sydney's Olympic Park.
...'

 

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https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/person-of-interest-was-texting-erin-gilbert-day-of-her-murder-husband-claims/news-story/44c1ae7d2995112b258ffb096657b692

'Person of interest was texting Erin Gilbert day of her murder, husband claims
A 32-year-old friend of aged care nurse Erin Gilbert and her husband, who was ‘like a little brother, has been charged with her bashing murder in a Merryland unit on Easter Sunday.

'July 25, 2023 - 5:10PM

 

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Ok. Not

 

[Percel]

Ok. Not

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