SARAH Renea Tarrant acted “like a dog on heat around other men” and was looking for someone to kill her former partner, a committal hearing at Dubbo Local Court was told yesterday.
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Tarrant and her alleged lover Raymond Isaac Roff are facing charges of murder. They were arrested after Alois Rez disappeared from a house in Alfred Street, West Dubbo in July last year.
Police believe the father of six met with foul play and continue to search for his body.
John McLean, a cousin of Alois Rez, gave evidence against the coaccused via video link from a Queensland jail.
McLean provided an insight into the relationship between Tarrant and Rez.
He said his cousin was sometimes agitated with Tarrant domestically and would tell her to pull her head in and accept her responsibilities as a mother.
Rez, a “fully patched” member of the Rebels motorcycle gang, sometimes hit Sarah and punched holes in the walls of the houses they lived in, Mr McLean said.
On one occasion Rez pulled a gun on a neighbour and pointed it at his head.
Mr McLean told of visiting the couple and Tarrant becoming agitated and arguing with Rez “a lot”.
“One night Sarah asked me if I knew anyone who could kill Alois,” McLean said.
“I thought she was joking because she was a very joking kind of girl. She asked if I knew someone who could ‘knock’ Alois. She quite obviously wasn’t happy with the man for some reason.”
McLean revealed details of a telephone conversation with Tarrant following the disappearance of Rez.
“She told me she didn’t say the Rebels killed Alois. She said Roff had killed him and put his body in the back of a Great Wall vehicle.
“She said Roff had thrown stuff over a bridge.”
McLean said he had taken notes after the telephone conversation and given the material to police.
Responding to questions from Tarrant’s barrister Ian Nash, McLean said Rez was overweight and “paranoid” about Tarrant looking at other men.
McLean initially believed Tarrant “was not that kind of girl” but later changed his opinion.
“Sarah was like a dog on heat with my nephew when Alois was not around,” McLean said.
“She wanted to root my nephew and grabbed him on the arse and genitals. I told (my nephew) you don’t do that with family.”
McLean said he thought it was unacceptable when Rez sometimes hit Tarrant.
“But that doesn’t give Sarah the right to do what she and Roff did,” he said.
“Domestic violence is wrong but I didn’t think Sarah was in any danger.”
McLean will continue giving evidence when the committal hearing continues this morning.