<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A man had an overdose and took drugs in the years prior to his mother allegedly murdering him by hiding prescription medication in a fruit smoothie, a jury has heard.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Maree Mavis Crabtree is alleged to have killed her 26-year-old son Jonathan with an overdose of painkillers on July 19, 2017 in the family's home north of the </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/gold-coast" rel="" target="" title="Gold Coast "><span>Gold Coast</span></a><span> before making a $125,000 insurance claim.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The 59-year-old has also been accused of attempting to murder her son in January of the same year.</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><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/us-israel-iran-war-live-updates-donald-trump-strait-of-hormuz-blockade-peace-talks-end/d0528cd0-11e3-4b7f-93d6-7c0501a3140f"><strong><span>Iran's ominous response to Trump's blockade threat</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Crabtree's defence counsel last week told the jury Jonathan might have accidentally or deliberately given himself too much medication.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Brisbane Supreme Court jury today heard testimony from Rebekah Millard, who started a relationship with Jonathan in 2012 that lasted 18 months.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"About eight months into the relationship with you he had an overdose of drugs?" defence barrister Angus Edwards asked Millard.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/gold-coast-troubled-man-overdosed-before-alleged-smoothie-murder/0d216240-149b-4d8f-beb0-10f41e8f0b13" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Yes, he did." she said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/warriewood-rescue-operation-underway-after-teen-injured-at-sydney-blowhole/fc9f9032-e224-4313-af48-d993aadcde87" rel="" target="" title=""><strong><span>Rescue operation under way after teen swept off into Sydney blowhole</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Millard said Jonathan always had the prescription drug tramadol but never mentioned another painkiller called oxycodone.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The jury previously heard a pathologist determined the cause of Jonathan's death was an excessive amount of the drug oxycodone in his bloodstream.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Edwards asked if Jonathan said he had taken the overdose as he "could not handle it anymore".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Millard said she could not recall but agreed she had told a previous court hearing that Jonathan gave that explanation.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/donald-trump-pope-leo-xiv-war-weak-and-terrible-trumps-remarkable-criticism-of-pope-marks-stark-turnaround/e93825bf-07bb-4a89-90d9-3f5344cab937" rel="" target="" title="'Weak, terrible': Trump's remarkable criticism of Pope a stark turnaround"><strong><span>'Weak, terrible': Trump's remarkable criticism of Pope a stark turnaround</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She agreed Jonathan had wild mood swings and always threatened to kill himself.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"When around friends he was the happy-go-lucky Jonathan but when it was just us it was a different story," she said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Jonathan was a "troubled man" with abusive behaviours who had been charged with robbing a chemist, the jury heard.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A car crash in 2015 had left him with permanent injuries requiring physical care.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Crabtree lived in a house with Jonathan and his sister Tara.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Crabtree had said before Jonathan's death that he was "eating her out of house and home" and had the "brain capacity of a six-year-old," the Crabtrees' neighbour Vicki Inglis testified today.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Jonathan had ownership of the house and she could not get him out of there," Inglis said Crabtree had told her during conversations between the car crash and his death.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Inglis was the latest of multiple witnesses to testify that Crabtree talked about giving Jonathan drugs.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Marie said 'I should put something in one of his syringes?'"crown prosecutor Caroline Marco asked.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Yes. On a number of occasions over a number of months," Inglis said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Crabtree made the remarks while talking about seeing Jonathan shooting up drugs in his bedroom, the jury heard.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>FUEL CRISIS:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/victoria-news-government-app-to-name-and-shame-petrol-stations/bb4ba147-860b-41ce-86a1-eab684f89cb7" target="_blank"><strong><span>State's petrol app to name and shame servos charging highest prices</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Did she say the reason to put something in his syringe was to harm him or do him some harm?" Edwards asked.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"No," Inglis said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The trial is due to run for another four weeks before Justice Martin Burns and hear from dozens more witnesses.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><strong><span>Lifeline 13 11 14 </span></strong></em></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><strong><span>beyondblue 1300 22 4636</span></strong></em></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.1800respect.org.au/"><strong><span>National Sexual Assault, Domestic Family Violence Counselling Service</span></strong></a><strong><span> 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732).</span></strong></div></div>