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Accused 'glued victim's eyes shut'
WHEN accused murderer Steven Roy Turner realised Nicole Leiske (pictured) was dead he allegedly super glued her eyes shut.
Police claim he told them he “didn't like seeing her dead eyes staring” at him.
This detail was one of many to be revealed in the Rockhampton Supreme Court yesterday as Turner faced day one of his murder trial.
He is charged with killing Ms Leiske, a 32-year-old mother of three, on February 5, 2005, but has pleaded not guilty.
He did, however, plead guilty to interfering with a corpse, when he dumped her body in bushland at the Caves.
Crown prosecutor Richard Pointing told the court Turner, 34, changed his version of events a number of times during police interviews after Ms Leiske disappeared.
Because Ms Leiske's body was found months later on May 29, forensic evidence could not establish a cause of death due to extreme decomposition.
Ms Leiske was described as “hopelessly addicted to drugs”.
Mr Pointing told the court that during one of the interviews with police Turner admitted to doing a number of things to Ms Leiske's body after she died.
Turner allegedly told police that before she died they were involved in consensual bondage sex.
Mr Pointing said Turner tied up Ms Leiske's hands and feet and tied a plastic tie, attached to a ball around her mouth.
He said Turner told police he then left her tied up, only to return 30 minutes later and find her motionless.
“He told police he wanted to find out if she was alive,” Mr Pointing said.
“He said 'I didn't like seeing her dead eyes staring' so he super glued her eyes shut.
“He said he took her into the bedroom and poured lighter fluid into her bellybutton and lit it up.
“He also jabbed her in the (backside) to test whether she was alive.”
Mr Pointing said Turner then bundled Ms Leiske's body into a bag, drove her to The Caves area and dragged her about 300 metres to a dry creek bed.
“She was left there in this creek bed dead - there is no question about that,” he said.
Turner's defence indicated they would dispute the allegations of what Turner did to her body before she was dumped.
Mr Pointing said Turner told a different set of events to cellmates at the Capricorn Correctional Centre.
He said Turner told a cellmate that if Ms Leiske didn't try to give him a “hot shot” then he wouldn't have had to kill her.
The court was told that a “hot shot” meant killing someone by putting some sort of poison into the syringe for the person who would inject the drug.
“She tried to give me a hot shot and when she did that she was always going to die,” Turner allegedly said.
“It was just a matter of how much trouble she was going to get.”
Mr Pointing said Turner used to talk about killing Ms Leiske so much another cellmate got sick of hearing it.
“She was tied up and I was doing sick (expletive) to her for days,” he allegedly said while in prison.
“I'm sorry I didn't spend more time with her before she died. I enjoyed myself with her.”
Mr Pointing told the court that Turner intended to kill Ms Leiske and during the trial he would prove it to the jury.
In Turner's initial police interview, Mr Pointing said Turner denied all knowledge of her death.
He said in another, Turner said he came home and found Ms Leiske in his house and said he “dumped her but didn't kill her”.
“As time progressed he started to open up and this was probably due to the fact he was concerned and didn't know what police would find,” Mr Pointing said.
“He was telling police what he thought he could get away with.”
Yesterday Ms Leiske's father and the police lead investigator also gave evidence.
The trial is expected to continue for two weeks.
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