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The aunt of a blind cheerleader who was allegedly thrown off a high-rise balcony by her boyfriend has revealed why her heart breaks when she visits the court every day.
Breeanna Robinson died when Jayden Moorea allegedly tossed the 21-year-old off the 11th floor of the H20 building in Southport on the Gold Coast on January 29, 2013.
The cruise ship entertainer formerly known as Daniel Shearin faces a committal hearing at the Southport Magistrates Court for one count of murder.
On the second day of the hearing on Wednesday, Ms Robinson’s aunt Janine Mackay made a heartbreaking video detailing why she find it hard just to show up.
Pictured: Breeanna Robinson with her ex partner Jayden Moorea, formerly known as Daniel Sherin.
Standing in the car park outside the courthouse, Ms Mackay said in a shaky voice: ‘Let me share with your all one of the hard things about being here.’
She then moved the camera to show the H20 building nearby: ‘That’s the building where she died. It’s very hard to be in this area.’
Ms Mackay arrives in court each day carrying a pink rose because it was her niece’s favourite colour.
She broke down as she told reporters on Tuesday that she will continue to turn up for the 21-year-old because ‘someone has to be here for her’.
Police took almost four years to get a statement from one of the paramedics who treated Ms Robinson at the scene, the Gold Coast Bulletin reported.
Janine Mackney, the aunt of alleged murder victim Breeana Robinson, poses with a petition she later handed to Queensland Leader of the Opposition Deb Frecklington in 2019
Gordon Cassidy, a security guard who was working at the H2O apartment block that night, told the hearing her heard Ms Robinson fall and saw her after she landed on a glass awning outside the foyer
Andrew Busby told the court that other paramedics were treating the young woman when he arrived, but claimed she was lying on her back.
He said he could not remember any other details about how she was lying.
The positioning of her body has been a point of contention, with some saying she was perpendicular to the building, some saying she was parallel, and others having no recollection.
Like Mr Busby, paramedic Dean Gamblin told the court they moved her away from the edge of the glass when they arrived.
He said she was lying parallel to the building, but could not remember if there were marks on her throat or face.
H20 building resident Ashlee Horvath said she was looking at the balcony from her couch when she heard a scream and saw a woman’s body drop.
‘I heard the loud bang and saw she landed on the glass petition under my balcony,’ he said.
She broke down as she told reporters on Tuesday that she will continue to turn up for the 21-year-old because ‘someone has to be here for her’
Moorea’s former boss Jacqueline Lowein said he sounded ‘scattered and disjointed’ in a series of phone messages he left on the night Ms Robinson died.
‘He was saying something like “oh my God, Jac, Bree’s jumped and thrown herself off the balcony”,’ she told the court.
Ms Lowein said they exchanged a series of voicemails on the night but never actually spoke.
Defence barrister Angus Edwards asked why she did not think Morea’s statement was genuine.
‘It just sounded odd… I just remember thinking it was odd,’ she said.
Moorea was charged six years after the tragedy because the coroner postponed the inquest into her death in 2017.
Moorea (right), a cruise ship entertainer formerly known as Dan Shearin, is accused of throwing Ms Robinson (left) from his balcony
Pictured: ayden Moorea arrives at the Southport Watch House on the Gold Coast, February 7, 2019
On the first day of the committal hearing on Tuesday, former neighbour Julie Carroll, who was watching a movie in her 11th floor apartment, said she heard screaming and crying on night of the tragedy.
‘I could hear the man, he was loud, yelling, and a woman was crying,’ she told the court, adding that the voices got louder the Daily Telegraph reported.
She testified that she did not see Ms Robinson, but heard a ‘high-pitched scream’ that stopped abruptly soon after the argument died down.
Pictured: Breeanna Robinson, 21, who died in 2013
Defence barrister Angus Edwards asked if the scream could have been cut off so suddenly because the woman hit a glass awning.
‘That’s what I believe is what I heard,’ Ms Carroll replied.
Dr Rebecca Adams lived a few floors above the couple and said thought someone had been hit by a car when she heard a loud noise and a thump.
When she looked over the railing, along with multiple others, she saw ‘blood pooling’ around Ms Robinson’s head.
The couple’s next-door neighbour Lisa Dunscombe insisted she heard no arguing, but heard a thud and what she described as a ‘release of breath’ while sitting inside her apartment.
‘Because it was a foreign noise I went out to investigate … it wasn’t a normal traffic noise,’ she told the court.
Ms Dunscombe initially thought the young woman’s body was a mannequin, as though someone was playing a sick joke.
She also said Moorea seemed upset when he got in the elevator, struggling to do up his pants and use his phone.
Alan Walker was sitting on his balcony and heard an ‘oh no’ as an ‘object’ plunged past him.
The committal hearing will allow the magistrate to determine whether there is enough evidence to send Moorea to trial at the Supreme or District Court.
Moorea denies the charges.
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