<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Police surveillance devices recorded an accused killer recounting the gruesome dismemberment of his alleged victim, a jury has heard.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Sheree Glastonbury, 51, and Mark Murphy, 54, are standing trial in the South Australian Supreme Court for the murder of Geoffrey McLean, 55, in August 2022.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Glastonbury and McLean had a "volatile" relationship and she had told people that she "hated him more than she hated anyone", the court has been told.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>LIVE UPDATES: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/liberal-leadership-spill-angus-taylor-sussan-ley-to-fight-for-opposition-leader-title/91f3b270-02bb-45d7-bd3e-c2d15d54b558" rel="" target="_blank" title="Angus Taylor elected Liberal leader"><strong><span>Angus Taylor elected Liberal leader</span></strong></a><strong></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Continuing her opening address on Wednesday, prosecutor Melissa Wilkinson said the case was built on circumstantial evidence that included movements of mobile phones, calls and messages, internet search histories, CCTV and police surveillance devices.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Phone records showed that on August 18, 2022, Murphy went to the Andrews Farm home of Glastonbury and McLean "and Mr McLean didn't leave the house alive again," she said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In late February 2023, a surveillance device in Murphy's Brahma Lodge home captured him speaking about what Glastonbury had told him.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/slain-mans-head-cut-off-to-fit-in-car-south-australian-court-told/b6d30692-873c-4d4d-a54c-9c536005286e" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Murphy lived at the home with his twin brother Peter James Murphy, 54, and Lynette Joy Sexton, 52, who are also on trial charged with assisting an offender.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"(Mark Murphy) explained that (Glastonbury) said she was going to give Mr McLean a sleeping tablet and make him sleep … then went on to say that she then gave him a shooter, and that, he said, was what overdosed him," Wilkinson said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Mark Murphy was also recorded recounting how he dragged McLean out to the carport, used a hacksaw to cut his arms and legs off, and had "trouble getting the torso in the car because he could not lift it on his own, so he cut his head off".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In the surveillance recordings, Mark Murphy also spoke about staging an overdose by putting McLean in a wheelchair and leaving him in a park.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"None of that happened, though, because rigor mortis had set in, the body was laying flat, and they could not sit him in the wheelchair," Wilkinson said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>On the night of the alleged murder, McLean's eBay account was used to buy men's and women's sneakers and golf equipment, totalling nearly $3000.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It's alleged that steps were being taken to make it look like … he was alive and well when on the prosecution case, he was at least already incapacitated," Wilkinson said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Glastonbury reported McLean missing to police on August 29, 10 days after she said he had left their home.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>On August 19, Glastonbury and Mark Murphy "were still in the process of their cleanup, and the method and location for the disposal was still needed".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Mark Murphy booked a short term rental property at Cadell in the SA Riverland for two nights, which Wilkinson said was an ideal location to dispose of a body.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>On August 23, Glastonbury and Mark Murphy used a truck hired by Peter Murphy to drive to the property, Wilkinson said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But they missed the turn-off and were lost in the middle of the night, failing to find the remote cottage they were searching for.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>On October 24, 2022, a contractor slashing grass on a vacant block at Salisbury South found a wheelie bin with an "overpowering" smell, its lid sealed with screws.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Police found McLean's torso inside.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The bin's serial number was traced to the property next door to the Murphy brothers' Brahma Lodge home.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><strong><span>NEVER MISS A STORY:</span></strong></em><span> </span><em><span>Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.</span></em></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><ul><li><em><strong><span>Download the 9NEWS App here via</span></strong></em><span> </span><a href="https://apps.apple.com/au/app/9news/id1010533727" target="" title=""><em><strong><span>Apple</span></strong></em></a><span> </span><em><strong><span>and</span></strong></em><span> </span><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nineNewsAlerts.nine.com&amp;hl=en_AU&amp;pli=1" target="" title=""><em><strong><span>Google 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